I used to think that sausages where made from cow's udders.

eoin

I used to believe that inside popcorn were tiny men who hated the heat. So when you heated them up they would get so mad they would pop. And for that reason I wouldn't eat popcorn because then I would be a cannibal and I couldn't believe that anyone would eat a tiny blown up man.

Mary

Before I could read, I believed "macaroni and cheese" was "Macaronian cheese," a way of preparing cheese, originating in Macaronia.

Bruce Latimer

I didn't understand about boiled eggs until my Mum explained I wasn't supposed to eat the shell as well.

Chris

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

My mom told me that eating meat would make me tan. I belived this for about two years. Then one day I told my friend and she laughed and said that it wasn't true. No wonder I'm so white.

SJ

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

I used to believe that pretzels were made from wood....

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

During school christmas dinners everyone used to get a chicken drumstick - I remember thinking what a terrible waste of the rest of the chicken it was.

Debbie