i used to believe that the smurfs lived in ordinary mushrooms and i would never eat them!!!

eimear

i used to believe that eggs were unhatched dinosaurs, and that if you eat them they could grow inside you.

Nevaeh

I used to believe that eating chocolate laxatives made you stronger,don't ask me why.

pat

I was an insanely picky eater growing up, and would refuse to eat any form of cow or pig. My dad convinced my mother to give me pork without my knowledge and call it "chicken" instead. I would eat it and complain about how yucky it tasted and how my mother made it wrong, eventually just refusing to eat. They did this up until I was 8.
"Chicken-roast" they called it...

Jules

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

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

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 young (maybe 6 or 7) my uncle told me that the ingredient in hotdogs called erythorbate was actually ground up earthworms. So for years I would not eat hotdogs and was very disgusted when I saw anyone else eating them! I finally learned the truth...but it took a while to overcome the earthworm thing.

Bridget

My friend (he's in his mid twenties and is currently writing his thesis for his PhD) told us that tortilla chips contain sand. After checking a pack of Doritos he changed it to "all tortila chips apart from Doritos contain sand."

A few weeks ago he told me this amazing fact again, but it had changed to "all Mexican food contains sand".

Anon

at a thanksgiving dinner when i was about six, cousin malcolm told me that bleu cheese (there was bleu cheese salad dressing present) was made, via a complicated and arduous process, from lambs' vomit. i'll eat it, now (i'm 32), but i still think of that every time.

frosty

I used to think that any ingredients you could put together would taste good. So I often experimented in the kitchen when my mother was sleeping. Didn't take my long to figure out I was wrong when I mixed chocolate syrup, cheese, and nutmeg and tried to eat it. Nastiest thing I think I've ever tasted.

Anon

I used to believe that hummus - the food, it's sort of corn yoghurt - was actually rotting vegetation.
I think I was thinking of "humus".

Rachel

When I was little I hated green beans and my dad would say if you don't eat them they'll turn into worms. Of course that made it worse and i thought they would crawl aroung in my mouth!

Lizzie

This one time when i was young at breakfast, I had grabbed the last banana and my older sister wanted it; so she told me that banana's were made of spider legs that molded over after being dead for a while, and that when you cut the banana you could still see the spiders legs. Took me out of eating banana's for almost five years

Marii

I used to believe stuffing came directly from the cooked bird, and was really chicken and turkey guts. I was never allowed in the kitchen before the stuffing of the bird, which is what led to this belief. I wouldn't eat it at Thankgsgiving and made everyone sick when I told them what I thought of it

Lola

When I was little, my mom served us different kind of green peas. She called them "lady peas" I imagined that a lady had peed them out and they went "pft, pft, pft" coming out.

Anon

when i was in kindergartan my brother and cousin told me that grapes were cow eyes and i believed them i told everyone at school. my bro. still makes fun of me!

THE MAN

When i was in kindergarden,i was eating some broccoli when some kids saw me.they told me if I ate the stem, I would turn into a frog.I already took a bite out of the stem.I started crying.the kids called me froggy until the teacher saw them.i still have trouble eating broccoli.(I'm 13)

Marjorie

My sister told me when I was younger that my mother would collect the frogs we would catch at night and pop out their eyeballs and when she had enough she would make Brunswick Stew. This was the answer to my question when I asked what the little grey and white balls were. In reality they were okra seeds. To this day I cannot eat okra or Brunswick Stew.

Anon

I didn’t like eating salad as a kid, and the way my mom got me to finally eat it was by telling me that it was the only way to get gum out of my stomach that I had swallowed at times.

EJ