As a child I used to believe that the cone from a 99' ice-cream wasn't edible, but was just a container for the ice-cream. How I cried one day about all those discarded cones when I saw another child actually eating one.

JW

When I was little one of my favourite snacks was a plate of sliced apple and cheese, and my favourite pudding was blancmange. If she'd made one of these for me and then I changed my mind and didn't want it, my Mum would tell me it was the Queen's favourite food, and that always encouraged me to eat.

Daisy K

When I was very young, my parents started teaching me to share.

When it was meal time, one of them would always ask "Would you share a bit of your food with me"?

I would happily share a bite, and they would say
"That was the best bite"!

That made me so angry, because I thought they literally meant, that I gave them the best bite of food off of my plate! If it was my food, I wanted the best bite!

Anon

i used to believe that Chicken McNuggets come from baby chickens.

Micky D =)

My gran always told me to 'go easy on the tomato ketchup, because I'm not buying any more', this made me think she was going to die when the bottle was empty, and subsequently made me feel very guilty whenever I put it on my food - in very small amounts.

I realise now she was fibbing, since she lived 'till I was 40!

Lynne

My mom once told me that the little white plastic thing they put in the middle of your pizza to hold it together was accually there for the children to use with their barbies. I thought the pizza company was ripping me off because they were always too small to be tables for my barbies (i checked every time)

Brianna

When I was little I demanded sugar on my cereal. My dad told me that someday I'd be eating my cereal without it and I thought that he meant it would one day become illegal to sprinkle table sugar on rice krispies. What he actually meant was that when I got older my tastes might change and I might actually like unsweetened cereal. I lived in fear of the day that I could be arrested for adding sugar to my cereal.

Anon

When we went out to a Chinese or Japanese restaurant, my uncle would always order fillet mignon. Well, I always misheard it as "Flaming Yon". I assumed it was some kind of super spicy Asian dish... It wasn't until recently that I learned it was merely steak.

Anon

When I was a kid I used to believe that clouds were made out of a magical cotton candy type substance (which changed flavors as the clouds changed colors at sunset), and I planned on buying a ladder to lean into the clouds which I would climb up and then I'd be able to stuff my face with the delicious cloud candy. I also believed that this ladder would only need to be about 2 or 3 times the height of my favorite big maple climbing tree, and that it wouldn't be scary to climb it.

Miss Lord

when i was little some stupid kid at schoold told me that kiwi's were monkey butts and sure enough i beleived it and didn't have another for along time!

carly

I was always puzzled by jars of jam that said "extra jam" on the label. I thought it meant that there was more jam in the jar than there would be otherwise. Either it was a slightly bigger jar containing a little bit extra for free, like they often do, or they had managed to fit more into a normal sized jar.

Alan, Sheffield

when I was around 4 -5 I once asked my mum how she knew when boiled eggs where cooked and she told me the eggs shout "get me out get me out im done" but you had to be a grown up to hear them,and for years I used to listen see if I Could hear them! she obviously knew when I got old enough to hear them Id know she lied :)

Catherine

A few years ago, my friend got tired of her little sister eating all the ice cream sandwiches so she convinced her that they were made out of llamas. She refused to eat them and would cry whenever my friend would take one out of the freezer and would exclaim, "Those poor llamas!"

amanda. [3

I used to call croutons "concretes" because they were so crunchy, I thought they were made of concrete.

Scary Dream

I used to think that grilled cheese sandwiches were "girl cheese" because mom always offered me them, and that if my dad were ever to get one it would be a "boy cheese"

Lexi

I was about 16 years old before I saw a real live tuna fish. Until then I believed they were about the size of bait fish, and that they were peeled with tweezers. Hence, the small can!!

Sara

As a kid I used to think the free "continental breakfast" offered at hotels was supposed to be a really big fancy breakfast, because "Continental" was the name of a big fancy car at the time.

Brandon Campbell

My wife gets a real kick out of this, when I was young I believed that if you ate frozen bread you would get worms. She uses frozen bread to cool soup for the kids.

Tim

Growing up back east, we often had cold-cut sandwiches of tongue. It was my mother's favorite. One day I asked her, "Mom, why do they call it "tongue" - that's kind of funny, don't you think?" When she told me that it really was sliced tongue from a cow, I stopped eating it. Years later I realized it was because I couldn't bear the thought of tasting something that was tasting me back!

Michael (from Massachusetts)

My brother told me once, while looking for snacks in the kitchen, that they make rain coats out of apple skin because of its water-resistance property. Although never quite believing him fully, I still think about that statement EVERY time I eat an apple.

Sophia