I used to believe you couldnt leave any peas on your plate otherwise they would be upset at being parted from the ones you ate.

Charlotte

when i was 8 and my sister was 5 i convinced her that the white wood inside a freshly broken tree branch was uncooked chicken. i had to sit in the corner when my mom caught her chewing on some.

Anon

I used to think that pickles grew naturally in the sea, and that's why the water in the jar was so salty.

Anon

In 1954 when I was 4 years old we got our first TV. An advertisement for KIX breakfast cereal showed a boy and girl my own age eating the cereal and then flying off the floor and around the room while the noise of a jet plane was heard and the announcer said: "Eat KIX and be jet propelled". Soon afterward, the first time I ever ate KIX cereal was absolutely beyond a doubt the most horribly disappointed I have EVER been in my life, and that was 50 years ago!

Still earthbound

I was 14 when i realized that nectarines were not shaved peaches

tim

My mother told me (when I was wee) that if I stuck my finger in the pudding to taste it, it wouldn't get thick, but instead would be all runny and yucky so she'd know I'd touched it.

I was 28 before I finally asked anyone else if this was true (via a post on usenet). It isn't.

Now I stick my fingers in the pudding on general principle every time I make it.

gemma

I used to believe that if I ate eggs I would become pregnant, as I asked my Mum how babies were made and got the big story about eggs and sperm.

Chellebelle

I used to think pineapples came from cheese, because they I thought cut slices look the same. I thought that's why they had ham & pineapple pizzas.

Misty

For the longest time, I thought that grilled cheese sandwiches were actually GIRL cheese sandwiches. I always felt a little slighted when my parents gave them to both me and my brother, since he plainly didn't meet the requirements.

Samantha

I used to believe making a cake from scratch meant using a box mix rather than buying a cake from the store.

EZ

When I was little, I used to think that brussel sprouts were midget lettuce.

Jules

I used to believe that knowledge was a vitamin.
Like, an actual vitamin called Vitamin K.

I just remember my brother on my first day of school telling me 'knowledge is a vitamin'.

I was 8 when I found out he was talking crap.

Tim

I used to think that chicken kievs were made from posh russian chickens that had been exclusively fed on a diet of butter and garlic.

I also thought that they would wear little fur hats, becuase it was cold in russia.

Sarah, UK

Up until the age of nine, I used to think that Marmalade was made out of goldfish.

Sadie

I still belive that if you stick a bean up your nose for a cople of days it will sprout

Leah

When I was younger, my dad would tell me the Heath bars were adult candy, and I believed him. On Halloween I would always give them to him. I thought they were poisonous to children. I believed this until I was around when I saw my neighbor (who was like, 7 at the time) one. I tried them, and I loved them.
I am 11 now, and my dad still tries to pull it off on Halloween, but I know now that he just wanted them for himself!E

Emmy

When me and my sister were kids, we thought all food had to either be a vegetable or an animal. One day at dinner we had pizza, and got into an arguement over whether it was vegetable or animal.

I said it was a vegetable, and pictured things like watermelons growing on trees, and when you sliced them, that's where pizza came from. But my sister said pizza was an animal. I dont know how she could've thought that, but it's funny to imagine little pizzas on legs running around and people hunting them...

Anon

when i was about 5 my sister told me that kiwis were elephant poop

kelli putnam

I thought chicken's feet were witch's hands

Edward

I thought The moon was made in honey.
Why?
On our french honey pots it said 'lune de miel'
wich means literally moon of honey. (even though I knew bees made honey)
I later realised it meant 'honeymoon'
lol.
(i soo wanted to go on the moon)

Kerridwen