When my brothers were little, they really believe that canned spinach made you stronger because of Popeye. They begged my mom for days to buy them a can of spinach so she finally did. It took them all of 2 seconds to try it and say yuck! They haven't eaten spinach since.

Anon

I used to believe that tapioca pudding had fish eyes in it! EEEWWWWW!

Chris

My little brother saw bagels in the supermarket and asked me what they were. I told him bagels were insects that lived in your hair, like cooties. They were made by grooming the hair of little boys like him, and puffing the bagels up in an oven like popcorn. He believed me for ages! He actually used to make me go through his hair looking for bagels, and I'd find a bit of dirt or something and say I'd just squashed a bagel for him!

Mel

I wouldn't eat brown bread as a child because for some reason I thought it was dirty and therefore boys bread. I belive that came from the old saying little girls are made of surgar and spice and little boys are made of puppy dog tails and snails. Thus snails crawl on the ground I guess making them dirty

JM

When i was about 6, my older sister by 7 years made be believe, through a very well performed acted out statement that hot dogs inteed were made of hundreds of little worms that would be cut up and "mulched" into the meat thats inside a hot dog.

Anon

When i was young, we would visit my grandparents in west texas. My gr-pa would buy tamales off the back of a truck from a mexican woman. He would tell me they were "cat tamales" and if i looked in the back of her truck i would see the cat heads rolling around. He would make a "meow" sound when someone bit into one of the tamales. (of course later, my grandfather and grandmother told me that was a joke and in fact the lady made some of the best tamales in town) lol

debi

When I was little my father told me that tapioca pudding had fish eyes in it. I believed him since the jelly substance resembled that of fish eyes. Today, I still can't eat tapioca pudding.

Leah

When we were small, my Dad, who loved to use pepper on his food, would tell us that it grew hair on your chest. He had plenty, so there was good reason to believe him. Sometimes to torment us, he would shake a little on our food. We would cry, try to scrape it off and not eat it. To this day, I rarely use pepper on any food...nor does my sister!!!

Lee

I used to believe (up until a couple of months ago) that when you broke an egg open the white chunk in between the yolk and the white was chicken sperm. My dad told me that story and I believed it until my husband told me it wasn't true.

Kim

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

My son is 24 and will still not eat raisins. Why? When he was little he thought they were mushed up dead flies!

mrs mooo

my grandfather told me that soy sauce was bug juice.

Anon

I used to believe that the little brown squiggles you got in biscuits were actually flies. I think I was about 15 before I found out they were actually raisins.

Hutch

I used to believe that the sausage in the hot dogs were actual dogs that were cooked then chopped into sausage shapes!

supergirl

I used to think that the orange stuff inside of acorns was cheddar cheese. I tasted the inside of acorns a number of times before finally giving up and admitting to myself that it was, in fact, not cheese.

Cindy

When I was about ten years old my brother told me that Kix cereal were actually spider eggs. I still can't eat Kix...

Anon

When I was a wee lass my Auntie would often call Brazil Nuts - nigger toes. Now, I must explain...she was born in the late 1800's and my father was born in 1913 so maybe that explains the term, I really don't know. They were certainly NOT prejudiced people and were respectful of everyone. When I was very young, I had this terrible feeling that people with black skin had their toes removed and it upset me to no end. I suppose I was about 5/6 when it was explained to me where the expression came from and why. I can't imagine anyone using this expression today I am in my 52nd year, have never used the term and just can't imagine using it.

Laura

My mom used to tell my brother and I that the meat in the hamburgers at Chinese restaurants was dragon meat. To this day I am still leary of chinese food.

Delkri

When I was (very) young, I believed that sausages were Pig poo. Yum.

CrystalTips

My husband believed (up until I set him straight) that Creamsicles were disgusting, because there was sour cream in the middle.

Ginger