When I was 6 years old I used to love honey, on toast or by itself. Then one day my sister told me that if I ate any more honey I would turn into a bee, because she could see a stripe on my nose. I got really scared and started crying.
Now I know that there was never any stripe and that I could eat as much honey as I want and I wouldn't turn into a bee, but I've gone off it now.

Eva

When I was younger my favorite food was fish sticks. Before I knew the anatomy of any living thing or even knew how to spell my own name I knew these tasty treats as fish dicks. I was never corrected growing up because when I said fish dicks it sounded almost the exact same as fish sticks. It wasn't until my mid to late teens until I realized I was saying it wrong. I actually remember looking in my moms freezer one day and thinking "oh my mom bought fish sticks... It must be the off brand!" Needless to say I do not care for fish STICKS as an adult :)

Lindsey

when i was younger i thought that the mcdonalds drive through ordering boxes actually had someone squished inside when you were putting through your order. once, when i was in the back seat and the guy asked "would you like fries with that?" i yelled out "are you ok in there? do you get to have a stretch a now and again?"

Tina

When I was little, my parents told me if i ate my fish sticks, I would become invisible.

Jake

I used to believe that made from scratch meant that the baker would scratch a cutting board with their fingernail and little bits of white powder would appear. This was where the flour came from to make something from scratch. No wonder bread "made from scratch" were revered!

David S. Theil

i used to believe that dumplings grew in the garden

Anon

My grandpop had a saying that eating raw radishes would "put hair on your chest" I of course took that literally, and thought for ages that I would grow hair on my chest if I ate a raw radish- now wanted since I'm a girl! up until I was in my 20s and someone explained the expression to me.

Stephanie

When I was little, I thought that big puffy clouds in the sky were actually mashed potatoes.

Anon

I remember growing up and my dad eating a special cereal that we were allowed only to eat once in a while. Mom told us the name of the cereal was "Daddy Cereal" because it was only for him. When I got a job in high school, I asked my mom to tell me where to buy it (because I was making my own money). It was simple granola - to which I am pretty much addicted. And I still refer to it as "Daddy Cereal"

Jenn

I was told that if you put tomatoes in a fruit bowl, they would turn green apples red, and that was the only way you could get red apples! I was ridiculed by my teacher at junior school for that. Evil witch!

Pauliboy

I used to believe that all eggs had chickens in them and that if you cooked them just a little (which the farmer must have done before selling them) the chickens turned into liquid. If you cooked them more, the chickens turned solid as in hard-boiled eggs.

Anon

When I was a kid and my mom wanted me to eat something I didn't like, she would say "It'll put hair on your chest." As if that's such an attractive quality for a girl! Of course, it's taken me nearly 30 years to finally eat some of the things she wanted me to eat!

kp

When I was in nursery school, a girl told me Jello shook because there was turtle inside. I believed her. I knew that it was illogcal but why would she lie to me? I spent two years in nursery school trying to see the turtle. I never saw one. I still check occasionally-- why would a female lie to me?

Jim from Elkins Park

I used to believe treacle came from pigs. This was an unfortunate cross-pollenation of two kitchen conversations I was listening to at the same time: my grandmother telling me that every part of a pig was usable, even the head and cheeks - and that you could get something (I think the real answer was brawn) by boiling down pigs cheeks. This overlapped with my mother muttering something about treacle, and - no pun intended - it stuck. I thought, until I was about 16 actually, that treacle was made by boiling down pigs cheeks.

John H

As a child was told jelly helped your nails grow strong.
I thought you put the jelly on the end of your fingers. Unknown to me you actully eat the jelly.

ruthie roo

At 8, my parents told me spagetti grew from the ground. A very believable explanation backed up by the crop of spagetti they grew in the back garden for me. I would come home everyday to inspect it until it got too tall and floppy to grow straight up. We then picked it, dried it and ate it for dinner.

Sam Sharp

My daughter believed that as bees made honey, ants must make marmite.

Linda

Until I was 7, I used to think bananas were a dairy product.

Amplexor

When I was younger my sister and I would sometimes stand out on our deck which looked into the woods eating carrots. My sister would eat a carrot and then tell me she could see through the woods to the street about 1/4 mile away and tell me what color car was driving by at the time. She told me to keep eating carrots and it would improve my eyesight so I could see that far too. I have eaten a lot of carrots in my days but still have yet to see through the woods to the other side.

faithful carrot eater

When I was a kid, my older brother told me that if I touched an uncooked potato, in my sleep I would turn into a giant potato and my family would eat me. That is to say, I never touched a potato or potato product (including fries) till I was about 11.

Crystal I