My sister was such a mean person when we were younger, she'd make up lies to try and scare me. The two that stick with me today is that the chocolate chips in Cookie Crunch are actually maggots, and tapioca pudding is fish eggs. I can't even look at either of them to this day.

Kalie Rose

My sister believed the pork in pork and beans was marshmallow...and would always "fight" us for it.

Anon

I can vaguely remember arguing with a kid in elementary school who thought that hot dogs were made from raccoons. I'm glad I can remember a story where I was not the stupid one.

Jessy

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 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

When I was 4, my favorite food was fried scallops. One day, my mother brought fried scallop dinners home for supper. My 5 year old cousin was staying over, and we were splitting a dinner. About 1/2 way through, he whispered to me that scallops were fish cheeks. I believed him, and was so grossed out I stopped eating them for years.

I don't remember how I came to find out that they weren't fish cheeks, but when I did I asked my cousin about it. He said he just wanted the rest of them from the dinner!

Michelle

When I was younger, my father told me the lumps in tapioca pudding were frog eyes... I still can't eat tapioca to this very day...

Chole

During the African famine of 84 and 85, my mum served me up these ice cream things covered with chocolate. I would not eat them as they looked like tits and thought that the tits were cut off from dead women and shipped over here for puddings.

Helen

My brother used to tell me that refried beans came from letting cows eat the beans and then scraping it out of the cows stomach and canning it. They had to kill the cows to get the beans out. Weird, I know.

Sukoshi

I thought that Elmer's Glue was OK to eat because it said "Borden" on the label, showed a cow (actually a bull) on the label, and it was white like milk.

richard

when i was little my mom told me that if i dont eat my vegtables by 7:00 the veggies will grow and grow and become evil and take me to the place where other veggies live

Anon

when i was little, my sister and i hated vegetables and everything else that our parents said was "nutricious",so my mom straightfacedly told us that peices of brocolli were baby trees and mashed potatoes were tiny clouds. we beleived her and were downright overjoyed whenever we got them for dinner

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one day when my brother was babysitting me i was watching the humane society program with all the dogs who need to be adopted. he then convinced me that if i drank doggy milk (ketchup and pepper and milk) the dogs would be saved

melissa

I learned my first 'naughty' words in the 6th grade. I also stopped eating fish-sticks in the 6th grade. If you say fish-sticks fast enough they sound a little gross... I still can't get myself to eat them.

emily

once when I was eating a hotdog, my sister told me the reason ketchup was sometimes spelled katsup, that it was made from cats blood!

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I used to believe that if you ate too much escargots(snails)you will become very slow at things and the snot when you sneeze will become very slimey.

lucas

I used to think that there was a little boogy in every end of ice cream cones (the type that are pointy).

John M.

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

andy

I convinced my boyfriend that paprika flavored crisps were made from donkeys...he was 20 at the time.

Anon

We had a cat named Staccato when I was very young, and since I couldn't pronounce Staccato I called her Taco. When I started school, we were having cafeteria food and in line I was told we were having Tacos. I cried and cried and refused to eat. I thought everyone was eating my cat.

Robin