When I was a kid, I used to believe chocolate milk came from chocolate frogs-curse my convincing aunt and gullible mind!!

Anon

Chocolate, they say, rots your teeth. I believed if you drank chocolate milk, your bones would be brown.

Dellio

i used to believe strawberry milkshakes use to come out of red cows

shannon cannan

When I was 4, with a new baby brother, I was told the baby drank milk when breast-feed. I assumed and believed for years that there were two because one was chocolate milk.

Anthony Saxton

My dad was explaining to my sister and I that dairy cows produce milk after they have had a calf. My mother said "No they don't. The just start producing milk when they get older". My father asked her "Did you start producing milk before you had babies?. Poor mom was so embarrased.

M

When I was a little girl I remember learning that babies were given "formula" to drink from their bottle. I thought I would like to be a Mom some day, but I was worried because I didn't know what the "formula" was. I wasn't sure that I would be good enough at chemistry to make the correct "formula" for my baby. I eventually learned that there was no magic equation for this formula. Maybe that whole misconception is what helped me decide it was best and easiest to nurse my babies!

jmp

My grandfather was from Sweden, and some English words were hard for him to understand. So he called skim milk "skinny milk." When I was younger I thought that "skinny milk" would make you lose weight (I was a pudgy child) so I once drank nearly a half gallon and was disappointed the next day to find out that I had not lost any weight!

Now I drink 2%

I thought that men drank their coffee black and women drank their coffee with milk. When I saw my Army Major Uncle drink coffee with milk, I could not believe that he drank like a woman.

Lou

I used to drink a lot of milk because i thought that you had to fill up your breast with milk to make them bigger

Anon

my mom has it recorded on a tape - i used to think milk chocolate came from chocolate cows. you fed cows a lot of chocolate then they spouted chocolate milk.

pia

I used to think that if a cow mooed while having the milk extracted from it the noise would be stored in the carton of milk. When the unsuspecting customer opened his newly bought carton of milk, the noise would erupt out of it and transport the cow into the room through the carton. I was always afraid of opening the new milk just in case...
Next time, be careful. It could happen to YOU!

Boviphobic Carton-Opener

I though that skim milk was really 'skin' milk and I thought it was made from skin so I would never drink it. I beleived it until I could actually read the carton.

Anon

When I was little, I asked my mom how ice cream was made. She told me that it was made by putting a cow in a big freezer. She also told me that chocolate milk came from brown cows, regular milk came from white cows, and strawberry milk came from pink cows.

I believed this until I was 12 years old, because people at school laughed at me when I told them how ice cream was made.

TB Samurai

I used to think that milking cows meant pouring milk over their backsides. After all, watering the garden means pouring water all over it. When we were on a country walk once, we saw some cows in a field and I asked my Mum if they wanted some milk. To which she answered that they had plenty of milk and wanted it taken out now. Thus, I associated cows with milk but didn’t think milk came from cows: I just thought it was a natural substance just like water.

I knew that you could milk cows but not bulls. The first time I knowingly saw bulls they were black all over. I associated white with milk, so I thought that was how you could identify bulls.
Similarly, I have heard of small children who think that if white cows give milk, brown cows give chocolate.

Alan

I used to think that if you drank too much milk and had a nosebleed, your blood would be white.

Tina