One time when I was a kid I asked what a cannibal was and my mom said its someone who eats other people. For some reason it didn't occor to me that they could cut up and cook someone so I imagined they just opened their mouth really wide and swallowed the other person whole!

Xenomorph

My big sister insisted that cinnamon (sugar) and pepper were the same thing. I tried some pepper and spit it out. Then she convinced me that it tasted differently on different parts of the tongue. Thoughout my childhood I always moved pepper around in my mouth trying to get it to taste like cinnamon.

Brandon

i believed that the holes in swiss cheese were cow farts.

lily

my sister loved cashews and to stop me eating them she told my brother and i that they were snails that had lost their shell and dried up in the sun.

lulu

My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!

Me

To make me and my brother eat our brussel sprouts at xmas, my dad told me and my bro that they were magic miniture cabbages from china.

He sed that he would be very disapointed if we didnt eat them cos they cost thousands of pounds

gullible git

I thought a "cold sore" on your mouth was the same thing as "coleslaw" and so avoided eating it for years.

Helen (UK)

When I was little I use to think kiwi fruit had to be shaved befor you eat it. Or you would grow hair all over you.

Kiwi & Me

i told my soon to be step brother that the tip of a hot dog looked like my cats butt hole.. he wont eat hot dogs anymore. :D

xJeNneSceNcEx

i refused to eat my mom's mashed potatoes. i cried at the dinner table until mom or dad gave up. i believed that they had been chewed up already by someone else.

bp

i used to love eating the hard toffees in quality street until my sisters told me that they were made of old ladies wee, i still carn't bring myself to eat them this day.

dave

i used to think raisins were inside out flies. i still can't eat them to this day. :)

booga

I never used to like boiled eggs so my Mum told me if i don't eat it quickly the chicken will hatch and eat me. I only recently found out that chickens are vegetarians!

Egg Hater

When I was young I hated Pea soup so my dad told me it wasn't pea soup, it was "green vegetable soup"....I LOVED green vegetable soup.

Carolyn

On the brief occasion I was bought a packet of Opal Fruits I'd be really sad if it contained lots of green ones as I thought they were lettuce flavour....

softlad

I believed that linguini was made of tape worms and was scared to eat pasta for a long time!

Mojo!

When I was a child, my older sister told me that peas were "fish eyes" and even though I'm all grown up now and I know that they are NOT 'fish eyes', you still can't get me to eat peas!!

Char

My uncle once told me when I was little that green peas were actually alien boogers. I still ate them though. I love veggies!

JP

When I was little, I believed that mushrooms were actually the ears of little tiny miniature elephants that were about two or three inches tall. Yes, this sounds silly, but bear in mind that at the TIME, I'd only ever seen cooked, sliced mushrooms, and they looked elephant-ish to me, so I put two and two together, lol.

Emily

When my cousin and I were about 5 or 6, we would always see her 13 year old sister putting on chapstick, then smack and lick her lips. We were convinced she was eating it and must've really liked it, because she'd reapply it a lot. So we found some old chapstick and licked it. We were convinced she had terrible taste!

Cassidy