My dad told me when I was 5 that tapioca pudding had fish eggs in it and I have never eaten it since and I am now 30.

Robyn D.

My older sister told me that soy sauce was made from crushed beetles. Of course I avoided it at all costs until I was about 10 and began to realize that she had made that up and that it could not be true because people would not eat something made with beetles. Now I really like soy sauce but every time I use it I do pause to remember the beetles that gave there little lives! :)

Sarah

When I was 6, a fellow classmate told me that the tapioca in pudding was frog eyeballs. I didn't eat tapioca pudding for a long time.

Marisunshine

up unti i was about 15 i though the stems of broccoli wasnt edable until my sister was laughing and told me about how she made me eat the broccoli because i wasnt alowed to play until i ate it, so she told me that the tops were like tree stars from land before time. boy did i feel stuipid after realizing ive been going for years only eating the tops because of that

Melissah

Sometimes you get the burned rice krispy in with your bowl of cereal. As a young child, I was always worried that it was not a burned rice puff but, in fact, a booger which had fallen out of my nose.

I would inspect each bite to make sure I was not eating this booger. Often times, I could not find the "booger" when I was done eating, making me feel sick knowing that I had most likely eaten it.

Mark

When I was young my mother used to put hot sause in our mouths if we talked back. My sister thaught that if she put the hot sause in the frigde it wouldn't be "hot" anymore, she shortly found out that that thought was incorrect

Anon

I used to believe that peanut butter was baby poo

Nancy

When I was litte, I was eating a banana when a family friend told me the little brown "seeds" inside were actually spider eggs. I didn't eat bananas for years.

Wendy

My Dad used to call Soya Sauce "Crow's Blood" I believed him for soooooo long. I think until I was like 11. Yikes.

~M

When I was 3 I was still in diapers, and I have a few vague memories of having my diaper changed. One time I had a few little turds in there, and I saw them before my mum threw the diaper away, and I thought that they looked like raisins. After that, I was convinced that raisins were really the same thing as turds, and I was horrified when I saw people eating them, even after my mum told me that they used to be grapes - after all, I ate grapes and produced turds, so for all I knew, that was how the process went. I'm disgusted by raisins still.

Gwen

When we were young, my brother and I convinced our baby brother that a large skillet full of lard was actually chocolate fondue -- he immediately stuck a spoonful in his mouth! It was warm and he couldn't tell right off, but he chased us around the kitchen trying to hit us with the spoon! He was around 5 or 6 years old then.
Months later, I told him that hearts of palm were string cheese and he ate a whole one in milliseconds only to discover the brinish/vinegary taste! To this day he will not eat one. He is almost 19 years old!

abelf77

Back in elementary school, i convinced my friend that the pizza sauce was actually cat blood. she believed me until we met back up in highschool!

nessa

I used to think eggs was chicken brains.

Jonathan Reichelt gjertsen

i had a chickpea phobia until i was 21 or so. because of the fleshy color - i really thought they were little boys testicles.

bp

when i was little and went grocery shopping with my mother i remember her putting frozen vegetables into the shopping cart, and was grossly appalled that we actually had to pay for such horrible things!

anon

I used to think Alfalfa was birdsbrains

Emma

I was told that bananas were grown inside pigs stomachs and that when they ate the food went into the banana skins and when they went to the toilet bananas came out.So I would not eat bananas when I was 3.

jo

I used to hate the smell of eggs so i put perfume on it once before i ate it. i was told otherwise after havin ma tummy pumped.

doofus