I could never understand why there was such a thing called "beast stew." I was 12 twelve years old before I finally realized that it was actually called "beef stew."

Patty

That the frying vats in the fish and chip shop went all the way down dep into the seaq and the fish would be trapped in them and be fried for our dinner and that the little black marks still left in the potato chips were the nibbles left there by the fish beforfe they were caught

gerryb

When I was quite young my parents and grandparents would go mushroom hunting every spring. I always thought it was strange that my mother and grandmother only went mushroom hunting and not rabit or feasant hunting like my father an grandfather. I could not imagine my mother or grandmother shooting at anything. I thought it some sort of small animal you hunted and then later ate for dinner.

Tammy

My daughter came home after having her lunch at her friends house for the first time.She declared that her friends family must be very poor because when her mother was making them both Burger and Fries she didn't have real fries but had to cook an other type made from peeling and chopping up a potato .
I thought this was really funny.

Stu Gough (UK)

One day in church the priest read us the passage in the Bible where Jesus curses a fig tree. I got it into my head that all figs were cursed, and when one was packed in my best friend's lunch box, I ran screaming towards her, snatched it out of her hand, and threw it into our school pond. When I told my friend that all the figs were cursed, she replied that I must have cursed all the goldfish in the pond, and I felt very guilty!

Mary Alice

when i was younger, i went through a stage where i would only eat food that came out of our vegetable garden. in an attempt for me to eat meat, my parents would wrap meat pies in foil and bury them in the garden. i was none the wiser.

mel

i used to think that eating carrots would make your eyes glow in the dark

nik

I used to believe that paprika was dried chicken blood because that is what my dad told me when I was about 5. I didn't find out it was red pepper until I proudly raised my hand in Home Economics Class in middle school to tell the whole class that it was dried chicken's blood.

Jeanette

My dad told me that carrots were good for your eyesight, and that if I ate enough carrots I'd be able to see through walls, like Superman, and I believed him.

Lindsay

When i was little i thought that there was a hambuger police and if i did not eat all of my hambuger he would take me to prison!!

*Manders*

My mother always told me not to pour the oil from tuna cans down the sink, and I knew that tuna was somehow connected to killing Dolphins, so I always thought that if you poured the oil from the tuna can down the sink it would kill all the dolphins!

Xyla

When I was little we used to eat at Chinese restaurants a lot, and I would always see "hunan chicken", as in chicken cooked in the style of the Hunan province in China, on the menu. I misread it as "human chicken" and thought it was made from people. Once my grandma ordered some and i freaked out- "Don't eat it Grandma! Its people!"

Anon

I used to believe that "pork chops" were called "port chops", and came from the left side of the pig.

Anon

For some number of years, my mother had my brother and I convinced that the preparation of meatloaf required that we clean up all the leaves in the yard and give them to her. No, really. There were little green leaf-looking bits in the red sauce of the meatloaf, and we thought it was due to our diligent efforts.

On becoming a little older, I thought to ask why she needed a whole giant trash bag full of dried-out brown fall leaves just to put a sprinkling of green leaf stuff on the meat. So now we just have it with gravy.

KidK

I used to believe that if I ate pumpkin, I would change into Cindrella. So I was always ate pumpkin.

Mine

When I was little, I was sitting with my siblings eating bacon when they began to tell me that bacon came from pigs I became quite distraught and insisted that it came from the grocery store.

Jen

I used to believe that french fries were filled with mashed potatoes.... wonder how they got in there?

Nancy

I used to think that chips were made out of fish. I couldn't understand why we kept eating fish with chips, I mean Why eat fish with a side serving of fish?

Gita

When I was very small, one Thanksgiving, I had to go out on an emergency trip with my dad to buy a gravy boat because ours broke. I asked him what a gravy boat was and he told me it was a little boat that floats in the gravy, and when it goes bad, the boat sinks. I believed that until I was about 12 or 13.

blnkfrnk

My dad always used to tell me that the bubbles in pop came from bugs in the bottom of the bottles that were trapped in there at the factory. He also used to say that anchovies(on a pizza) were monkey brains.

Dawn