That hot dogs were made from rat tails.

Anon

my stepbrother once told me that ketchup was made out of blood, and I didn't touch it until I was about 7 (when I could read good & proper)

Danielle

When I was about 5 years old my older brother told me tapioca pudding was made out of fish eyes and that what the bubbles on top were. I never ate tapioca pudding again. I'm now 23 and even though I know it's not made of fish eyes it still grosses me out.

roxychica

I used to believe that the icing on packaged oatmeal cookies was old people's spit. I don't know where I got that one from!

Kathleen

at some point when I was a kid I looked at a box of cereal and read that it had 454 "germs" instead of grams. I wouldn't eat cereal for a while after that, because I thought I'd get sick.

Beaver

i used to believe that hamburgers were made with BOOGERS, the sort in your nose and always refused to eat them.

Anon

When I was five, the woman who cut my hair told me that if I wanted to make my hair grow faster, all I had to do was eat liver and spinach.

I was in college by the time I was able to shake my mother's notion that liver was not actually my favorite food, or anywhere close to it, and that I'd only choked it down because I thought I'd have Rapunzel hair.

Spinach, though, I wound up liking.

Blerg

For awhile, I was allowed to eat dinner in front of the TV, but one time my mother served me some brown stuff on a plate & I thought it was poo. I couldn't bring myself to eat it.

My parents said that I got so interested in the TV that I forgot to eat, & wouldn't let me do that anymore. When I grew up, I told my mum about it, & she didn't believe me, because of course I knew she wouldn't serve me poo. Well, I didn't know that at all.

esq2002

i used to believe that black wood ear
came from the skin of the bats

JULIE

i used to believe that peas were toes

DJ

When I was little I use to think hot dogs were pig guts.

Tri 5460

I used to believe sauerkraut was made from animal brains.

Anon

As a young child I was told spiders laid their eggs in the bottom of banana peels so I would never eat the last bite. Even to this day I inspect the bottom of the banana carefully before eating.

Kristen

When I was 3 or 4. I thought, if I eat a kernel, it will grow in my stomach.

daga

my mum used to try and get me to eat brussell sprouts be telling me theye tasted like sweeties. They didnt. They got fed to the dog, hidden behind the boiler and placed under the plate so I could get away from the table. When my mum used to lift my ultra clean plate up there would be a whole host of brussell sprouts hidden under the rim!

Anon

mr brother russ told me that some maggots crawling on the ground were macaroni and i should eat it - I didnt!

Anon

my dad told me as a kid that turkish delight was camel poo i believed him 4 years n up 2 the age 20

Anon

When I was young, my aunt was trying to get me to eat my peas. You know the sweet peas that come in a can, the mushy, gross ones. Anyway, she told me that if I ate my peas they would stack one on top of the other and make me tall. I still can't eat peas to this day, because the very thought of it just grossed me out and ruined them for me forever.

Jena