A friend of mine who is now 21 still believes that coconut milk is monkey urine. His grandad told him when he was younger. However he thinks it gets in there I do not know!!

Anon

When my brothers were little, they really believe that canned spinach made you stronger because of Popeye. They begged my mom for days to buy them a can of spinach so she finally did. It took them all of 2 seconds to try it and say yuck! They haven't eaten spinach since.

Anon

As an example of my excellent memory, I once confronted my mother about this thing I heard say when I was little. [Possibly why I hate eating meat] I distinctly remember her talking to one of her friends [Whose children she baby-sat], and saying something like "I don't eat the eyes, I give them to the kids." Apparently some people in reality eat animal eyes, I don't know if we ever did.

Troy

I used to gag when I ate english muffins because the holes in the bread looked like nostrils.

Anon

i used to beleive that granola bars would give you diareah.

Anon

I used to believe that eating cookie dough would give you worms in your tummy...my mom told me that!

Anon

i used to believe that the chunks in chunky peanut butter were bugs.

Lauren

i used to believe eating turnip made me have curly hair

natalie

One evening, I asked my mom what she was cooking, and she replied, "Beef heart". Thinking she had said "Bee fart", I proclaimed, "I'm not eating stinker meat!"

Delilah

When i was little I didn't like to eat meat (still don't), so my mother told me that Oxtail soup was made with carrots, and I believed her. Years later, I confronted her about it, and she said that duiring that war they'd remove the meat from the soup and grate in carrots to give the texture. I pointed out that the war ended a long time ago, and she just said "I'm old and I get confused", never once admiting that it was a lie.

Mhairi Burns

Little Debbie put her boogers in her oatmeal pies

Anon

I used to believe that the black dots in crab paste were their little eyeballs - I still can't eat it and I'm 34!

mj

I was once eating a peach and had bitten down to the stone - when i looked down again there was a huge bug and a crack in the stone. I was convinced it had been living inside and wouldn't eat another peach until well into my adulthood.

mj

i used to believe ketchup was blood and refused to eat it with anything

Anon

When I was a kid, I used to believe that raisins were actually dried up flies. When I saw people eating raisins, I would say "Ewwww. You eat flies?" I figured out that they were dried grapes in about grade two. It's because I'm a genious. ;)

Anon

I used to believe that if I ate chicken, it would come back alive and eat me.

Victoria Jiang

I never knew what meat really was until my mother told me its made by dead animals. I was shocked but decided that it didnt matter because everybody else ate it. A few days later my mom had a friend over, and asked for the 'butt' of the bread. I then realized that bread was an animal too and people didnt like the end peices because it was made from animals' rear ends.

Brianna

I've been eating poppyseed danishes ever since I was little, and my father used to joke that I was eating a pastry full of ants. I believed him, so whenever someone asked me what I was eating, I declared, "Ants!" I thought I was really brave and cool for eating them.

Mary

when i was about 8 my best friend told me that she didn't eat salami because her dad told her the white bits in the salami were bits of the white part of eye balls and although i disagreed and told her it was fat or grisle she somehow managed to convince me that she was right because her dad is a chef so must be right and so i avoided salami for quite a while after that

Anon

when i was 16 (yes 16) i was at a pub with some friends and one of the lads asked me to go to the bar and get him some duck lips...
i was very confused and i sed what are duck lips and he replied that they were like pork scratchings, a tipe of crisp if u like
so i went to the bar man and asked him for some duck lips he just cracked up laughing at me when i went back to the table slightly red faced all of ma m8s were laughin at me
that was a year ago and i still havent lived it down yet :P

siobhan