To this day I cannot eat tomato sauce (ketchup) because my older brother had me convinced it was blood when we were little.

Kellie

For some strange reason, I used to believe that whale meat actually was human meat. Once, when I was about six years old, I was invited to dinner at a friend and they had whale for dinner. When her parents asked me if I enjoyed my food I said: "No! I don't eat human flesh!"

norweigan girl

when i was little either my brother or my mum told me that mince was worms when i asked. couldnt eat it for weeks!

Annonymous

My uncle told me when i was little that chinese duck sauce was made from duck brains. God help me, i didn't try duck saunce until i was 17.

ernie

I remember when my older sister was eating a store-bought sandwich. I asked her what kind it was. Trying to gross me out, she said it was a roach sandwich. "See those little thingies there? Those are the wings", she said. I believed her for a few weeks. Then I realized that it wasn't a roach sandwich after all, so I started to buy those sandwiches and pretended they had roaches in them. I said, "Look, Sis, I'm eating a roach sandwich".

Anon

My little sister was constantly winding me up when we were younger, so to get my own back I told her that soap smelled so good because it was actually ice-cream.

Man, she pulled the foulest face after biting into that! The taste stayed with her for ages as well...

Laughing at her

when i was a little girl i always thought that dumplings where made of ducklings, i always passed on them

andy

I used to belive that if you ate anything that had mould growing on it, you would grow mould on your skin.

Anon

I used to believe that the pimento in olives was raw flesh. I thought this was so gross (when I was 8 0r 9) Katherine

Katherine

As a child I knew that tapioca was made from frog's eggs, in spite of my mother's insistence that I was wrong.

Anon

When I was little, I thought that ants were chocolate sprinkles with legs. I would eat them out of their little holes.I finally learned that they were insects by buying myself chocolate covered ants in a museum and my parents went ewww!

withershins

For the longest time I thought that tapioca pudding was really fish eggs in pudding.

Liz

My neighbors belief:

My neighbor's mother and father used to tell her, her two sisters, and her brother that pork was a dirty meat. I'm not really sure why they think that, but to this day not one of them has touched a piece of pork. My neighbor won't even let her husband or 2 boys eat pork.

now 13

My older brother told me that the reason apple butter is brown is because the farmers who make it spit their tobacco juice in it while it is cooking. I wouldn't eat apple butter for years afterward.

Ross

My 28 yr old son would not eat fish sticks as a child.Only recently did I learn that he thought they were "fish dicks" !

Anon

That ice cream cones were pure poo.

Mike VanNorman

Another girl told me that vienna sausages had been cut off of little boys. I had younger brothers and it seemed believable to me. Ruined my appetite for viennas, too!

Julie

As a youngster, my older brother told me that polish sausage was really the bull's genitals.

Ross

i used to believe that a kiwi fruit was a genetically modified fruit made from melon and banana (the banana being the middle). why? because my best friend told me so, so i believed her, and would never eat it after that... or until I discovered that it was a joke, and then discovered that I am illergic to kiwi fruit!

channahboo