My brother told me that if i planted M&Ms in the ground, I would get and M&M tree and i actually beliebed him until my mom told me otherwise

Anon

My mother in law used to tell my husband when he was a kid while they were at the grocery store to make sure he got all the extra air out of the produce bags that way she didn't have to pay for it. So he would squeeze and twist the bag as much as he could. This went on for a couple years. I am so going to use that one on our kids.

Robyn

I use to think that garlic was green in garlic butter until I found out that is was chopped parsley :)

Kellie

Until I was about 12 or 13 years old, I had never seen an olive anywhere other than in a cocktail. The first time I ate an olive, I was extremely surprised at the absence of a pimento, and the presence of a pit. That's right, I thought pimentos grew inside olives naturally.

Tarkaan

I used to believe that a salad bar was just like a three musketeers bar but green and when you bit into it it would have carrots and lettuce and veggies in it. I believed this till i was like 10 and i'm now 14. I'm a dork.

Lysette

(Not my story) As a child, my mother told me the last bite of food on my plate was the "special bite." This was a clever trick (which worked) and got me to finish my food almost everytime!

WEBBMD

I used to believe that gold fish crackers were actual fish!

Carly

I used to think that if I mixed my ice cream around until it was liquid and then baked it, it would turn into a cake.

Judy

At a diner when the waiter would say "soup or salad?" i thought he was saying "super salad" and i always wanted to see what a super salad was and how it was different from a regular one.

Anon

When I was little, I believed making things "out of scratch" (such as baked goods) meant you thought really hard about what you wanted and scratched the air and it would appear after awhile. I tried it a couple times too.

Anon

i used to believe that white chocolate was made from lobsters

Anon

When I was little my family would always tell me "eat your food there are starving kids in this world" like most families do. I started to not eat my food at all and sneak it to the garbage can so that the homeless could find it.

Kaylie Becker

I used to think doner kebabs were called that because the animals donated their meat for it

Jordan

My mum always used to give me Vitamin C tablets in the morning, but whenever she said it to me, I thought she was saying 'Vitamin SEED tablets', and I thought the tablets were made of loads of really tiny seeds that made little vitamin trees grow inside your body.

Anon

When my cousin and I were elementary school age, she tried to convince me to stop eating McDonalds chicken nuggets because they were made out of pumpkin guts. I'm not really sure what pumpkin guts even are, but the thought of it scared me from chicken nuggets for a while.

Anon

My older sister had me convinced that noodles grew on trees, but that rice was man-made...

Trusting little brother

I used to believe that grilled cheese was called 'girl cheese,' and only girls could eat it.

Paige

My sister thought that soy sauce was called soil sauce because it was made out of soil. She still ate it though. In fact she loved it.

Catherine

i used to believe that if i didn't eat all my vegetables that those thrown away would get lonely. if i didn't eat them all, i would leave an even number, so each would have a companion if they got split up.

leslie

When I was in secondary school studying home economics ("food technology" to more 'modern day' students or just plain 'cookery' to older ones), we had to prepare a full breakfast. I got the mistaken belief that I somehow invented hot buttered toast.

Well, I had never seen it before and therefore it was a 'new invention' for a 12 year old... But I am *so* glad now that I didn't actually reveal it to anyone...

Richy C.