when i was little, i used to love pink, and my dad told me that he once was a little girl, but he drank too much chocolate milk and turned into a little boy. i had 2 older brothers and they would always have chocolate milk. it was a long time before my mum could convince me that it was safe to drink strawberry or chocolate milk!

strawberry-milk-aholic

I used to believe the pee of the cow was the milk. I didn't like milk.

Maeva, a French student in eighth grade

My brother told me that you could tell how fat someone was by how dark their chocolate milk was...so I thought if I added less syrup to the milk, I'd lose weight.

lizzie

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

Tina

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

We used to have our milk delivered to us, and the truck that brought it was white. My sister convinced me that chocolate milk would only be delivered by the brown trucks (UPS). Since we never got chocolate milk, and the UPS trucks never came to our house, either, the story made sense for years.

John

when i was little i was told about milk making your bones grow, so i drank and drank and drank, and for the longest time couldn't figure out why i had stopped growing and wasn't getting any taller. i have now come to terms with my height and have never broken a bone. so i guess the milk worked at least one way. *grin*

Anon

I always thought when I was a kid that Milo is for boys and that milk are for girls. . .

Cathyia

i used to beleive when you drank milk your breasts would get bigger so i used to look down at them afterwords

Anon

i was told that the white stuff you get in your nails when you need calcium was milk and if you sucked your thumb enough the milk would come out and you would be able to drink it

Anon

When I was little I used to believe that we got milk from dandelions instead of cows because of the milky stuff that is in their stems.

Jess

When I was in kindergarten we had little cartons of milk every day at snack time. I would sit and drink my milk and read the side of the carton, which listed all the products made by that company, including chocolate milk, buttermilk, etc.

I thought the list was actually the ingredients of what I was drinking, that it was a mixture of all those things, and was convinced that I could taste the butter and the chocolate in my milk!

Penny

I used to believe whenever you drank milk, the milk would wash over your bones and which would absorb the good stuff in milk, and that's how you'd grow up big and strong.

Whudunit

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

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

Anon

i used to think the water tower was filled with milk

jen

When I was about three my preschool teachers dyed the milk green for St. Patrick's day, and told us that it was the leprechauns. I was also, at this time, horrible afriad of any liquid the color green because the little "Mr. Yuck" sticker for posions was green. Well I thought that that meant poison was green and green meant poison. I wouldn't drink teh milk because i thought the leprechauns poisoned it.
I'm still afraid of leprechauns and green milk.

Mr. Yuck

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

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

Dellio

when i was little i knew that breast milk came from breasts, but i thuoght it was de-hydrated milk powder, and you had to drink lots of water to get milk.And i thought it was the same stuff that came in gallons at the store, and the inside of dandelions.

Steph (14)