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

Me

Until very recently I beleived that "bread and water" was actually bread, with water mixed together into a icky mush.

da icee man

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

booga

When i was little i used to believe that the nastier the food the better it was 4 u so i once made this horrible dish it was spinach peanut butter covered in pepto bismol *yech* my mom threw up just from the smell

Ryan

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

Helen (UK)

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

This belief is now something of a family tradition.

My mother, who was never the greatest of chefs, told me (and all my siblings) when i was small that if i didn't eat all my supper, "the children who eat poo" would come & get me.

The children who eat poo are a bunch of naughty children who also wouldent eat thier supper & now live on the streets with nothing to eat but poo! They were like a gang of poo eating street punks.

as my mother was a self employed courier sometimes when i was in the car with her she would point to dumpsters & say thats where the children who eat poo live.

needless to say, washing the dishes in our house was never a big chore...we practically licked them clean.

ShannonOfDoom

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

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

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

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 used to believe that peanut butter was lobster poo.

PaulH(nz)

My sister told me as a child that ravioli was 'hedgehog' meat.

Still can't eat it today.......

Sal Myers

My Dad told me that the milk in coconuts was monkey wee. I believed him, not considering how on earth the monkeys would go about such an operation.

Tom

I used to believe that 'cold sores' were actually called 'coleslaws' and that people got them from eating coleslaw. I never understood why people ate it if they knew they would get these awful things & then complain about them. To this day i have never eaten coleslaw.

Kimberlie

until i was about 11, i used to think that the 'quiche' i saw advertised on my school dinners' board, was a mysterious nasty-sounding food, pronounced 'kwichy'. mmmmmm.

alex, england.

I also thought that meat balls were made from testicals

Glenn

that a piece of liver in your fridge if left overnight would wrap itself around a bottle of milk

Anon