One day when I was in kindergarten, someone brought "worms in dirt" (crushed Oreos and gummi worms) as a snack for the class. Despite the teacher's repeated insistence to the contrary, I remained convinced that the dirt and worms were real. The teacher eventually had to bring me a different snack from somewhere else in the building because I refused to eat the worms and dirt. Nobody else in the class had this problem.

mollyann

Once, when my mother was cooking a chicken gizzard, I saw it sizzling in the middle of the pan, and asked what it was. I heard my mother say, "it's a half-cooked lizard." I'm certain now that she said gizzard, but when I heard lizard, I swear it looked just like a small lizard, frozen in place, cooked before it could escape.

Marjorie

This is really crazy, but my sister told me that pie was made from kittens. I refused to eat it until I was 24. I think it was so she could eat all of my pie on Thanksgiving

Cindy Lou Who

I use to think ketchup was kat blood because my Dad called it cat soup.Sometimes he would call it cat blood but usually cat soup.

Kim

When I moved up to middle school from juniors, I was reliably informed by the older kids that the Cornish pasties served in the dinner hall were filled with dog food. I never tried one until I was about 20.

Lee W.

My neighbor told me that the insides of acorns tasted like chocolate. They don't. They're really bitter.

Dial Zero

My brother, Myles Kidd, was really gullible as a kid. I told him that Tapioca was spawn of the Canadian bullfrog, and that the slightly pink processed cheese we ate was that colour because it had cows blood in it. As we were fed these foods regularly, mealtimes usually ended in tears. (He's still really gullible!)

Tania Bradshaw

My mother and I were once shopping at an Aisan food store. There are foods such as pig tounge and pig blood. I asked my mom why were there so much pig food and she said that you could eat any part of the pig, because the entire pig was edible. I thought this was disgusting and I also thought that if you ate any part of the pigs besides the regular meat, you'd either turn into a pig, or get extremeley sick. When I saw people buying the pig tounge and bood, I'd run away from them!

Tinker Bell

I used to believe that the icing on packaged oatmeal cookies was old people's spit. I don't know where I got that one from!

Kathleen

my stepbrother once told me that ketchup was made out of blood, and I didn't touch it until I was about 7 (when I could read good & proper)

Danielle

My little sister believed onion rings were alive and wouldn't eat them until my mam had killed them by stabbing them with a fork, she also wouldn't eat any meat unless it was chicken so until she was about 11 bacon,sausages and burgers were all chicken, i don't think she liked chickens!!

chicken hater's sister

When I was 8 or 9 and eating lunch in the school cafeteria one day, a classmate told me that mayonnaise was made out of snot. I believed him and didn't eat mayonnaise for years.

Linda

I used to beleive that eggs were actually poop from chickens, and that eating it would make you throw up.

Anon

i used to think tabasco sauce was tobacco so i'd always be like "mom! dont put that in our food!!"

Anon

When I was little, my older sister would tell my twin sister and I that when people made hotdogs, they just took a meat grinder, put it in an alley and took the remains of all dead animals and stuffed them in. She also said that rats and raccoons would come down the alley way and crawl into the blenders and the hotdog making people would leave them in. She doesn't remember telling us, but I think she was just trying to get us to stop eating meat because she's a vegetarian herself. We still ate hotdogs after she told us though...

Vanessa G.

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

When I was little, I asked my father why there are holes in Swiss cheese. He explained that it was because of the rats, chewing their way through. I inspected every peice of cheese after that, for evidence of the 'rats'.

Anon

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

Ross

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

I used to believe that the black dots in crab paste were their little eyeballs - I still can't eat it and I'm 34!

mj