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

A little girl down the road told me that kale (a green leafy vegetable, kind of like spinach) was really cow butt. I wouldn't eat it forever.

anniesteesha

when i was little i thought that dim-sims wre made from cats,so never ate them

bikini babe

When I was about 5 I asked my Mum where sausages came from and she told me, from pigs. I then figured if eggs came from chickens, then sausages must come out of pigs bottoms. Yum yum.

Dominic

When I was little I use to think hot dogs were pig guts.

Tri 5460

I always thought that duck sauce (from chinese restaurants) was duck poop.

emily

My older brother used to tell me that the people who make fortune cookies spit in them just to scare me into giving my cookie to him and grossing me out when he ate it......and it worked

Eliza

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

I thought that barf was what they used to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!

Maan o' War

When I was little my parents used to tell me that pretzels were made from wood. So thats probably why I'm not a fan of them today.

P-Deuce

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

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

My boyfriend's 8 year old nephew refused to eat monkey bread, because he "would never eat anything that had monkey's in it!"

lindy

When i was little i thought that olives where dead people's eye ball's so when my mom and dad ate them i would run out of the room screaming.

Anon

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

I used to be believe that white sugar was made from ground up bones

shedrez

when i was in grade school i used to belive the lunch ladys made the ham and meat out of naugty chilldren. and the maionas was umm, how should i put this, they thought it was spurm.

nunnya

When I was five, the woman who cut my hair told me that if I wanted to make my hair grow faster, all I had to do was eat liver and spinach.

I was in college by the time I was able to shake my mother's notion that liver was not actually my favorite food, or anywhere close to it, and that I'd only choked it down because I thought I'd have Rapunzel hair.

Spinach, though, I wound up liking.

Blerg

When we both were young, I told my little sister that dirt tasted like chocolate Quik, the stuff you make chocolate milk with. She ate a whole handful before realizing her mistake.

Chellion

when i was in this daycare we were eating and it was some kind of meat and i over heard one of the people taking care of us say that the meat we were eating was livers taken from poor children across seas

Anon