One night at dinner we had tapioca pudding for dessert. I kept begging for more pudding and my parents kept telling me no, you've had enough. Finally my dad said, "Are you sure you want more? Because the little balls in tapioca pudding are made of fish eyes." I believed that for YEARS and to this day will not eat tapioca pudding.

Wendy

My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!

TawnyKat

When we were younger My cousin and I went to the next town where a fair was going on. They had this really cool trailer where a man was sitting in there biting off the heads of snakes and bats. He had snake and bat bodies laying all over on the floor. My cousin and I went on to other things and then came back later to see the man again. All the body parts were cleaned up. When it was time to go home. Mom was in the house making supper, said we were having a special treat. We were called in for supper and lo and behold there on the plate were these little slices of perfectly round green fried snakes. We took off running saying we were not hungry. When we got back home Dad asked why we left in a hurry and we told him about the snakes and bats and then the supper Mom had made, and we WERE NOT EATING SNAKE. Dad laughed and told us it was zucchini. Well it looked pretty convincing to us! UGH!

Tinkle-Wink

For awhile, I was allowed to eat dinner in front of the TV, but one time my mother served me some brown stuff on a plate & I thought it was poo. I couldn't bring myself to eat it.

My parents said that I got so interested in the TV that I forgot to eat, & wouldn't let me do that anymore. When I grew up, I told my mum about it, & she didn't believe me, because of course I knew she wouldn't serve me poo. Well, I didn't know that at all.

esq2002

I wouldn't ever eat bananas that were bruised. I believed that while the bananas were growing in the jungle, monkeys would open them up, take a bite, and then put them back on the tree. I called these bruises monkey spots, and i still refuse to eat a bruised banana.

zan

My sister bought a section of natural sugar cane at a specialty grocery store. I expected to take a bite out of it and it would be crunchy and taste like sugar cubes...it was gross.

Sugar Girlie

i used to believe that a kiwi fruit was a genetically modified fruit made from melon and banana (the banana being the middle). why? because my best friend told me so, so i believed her, and would never eat it after that... or until I discovered that it was a joke, and then discovered that I am illergic to kiwi fruit!

channahboo

Not me, but my girlfriend.
When she was younger, her aunty told her that a bug lives in the end of a banana. She still chops off each end of a banana to this day...

Anon

When I was a small child my older brother told me that the crinkly ends of hotdogs (the "butts"), was where all the leftover meat parts went. You know, like the liver, intestines, bladder...stuff like that. To this day I can not eat the ends of hot dogs.....I'm 31 years old and it still affects me.....and I cut the ends off my children's hot dogs too!

Dayna

I used to believe that Pepperoni was made from goat meat.

Anon

I thought that raisins were little dead bugs without legs

Laura

When I was little my older brother told me that mayonnaise was pus from chicken tumors!

Katlyn

I used to believe that "burgers" were really called "boogers" and "boogers" were really called "burgers."

Anon

When at the Fair one time, my husband asked our daughter, age five, if she would like an elephant ear. (A large fried pastry, sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon). She was quite upset about the idea of eating an elephant's ear and now at age 21 still isn't crazy about them.

Anon

i got very sick and threw up one night after we had eaten spare ribs for dinner... for years and years after that i refused to ever eat spare ribs again because i thought they made you throw up

feralkittycat

When I was younger, I thought the dead flies on our windowsill were raisins and ate them.

Crystal

When I was about four I always buged my mom for candy when we went to the store.At easter I asked her for peeps. She told me that the reson they were shinny was that they had glass in them. So when I was in first grade I told my hole class. They all laght. I was so inbear-assed

emily

I was told that bananas were grown inside pigs stomachs and that when they ate the food went into the banana skins and when they went to the toilet bananas came out.So I would not eat bananas when I was 3.

jo

MY SISTER TOLD ME THAT CANNED SPAGHETTI WERE REALLY WORMS THAT'S WHY THEY WERE SO CHEAP...I BELIEVED

CATHY

when my mom was making au grautin potatoes i asked what she was making. i thought she said all rotten potatoes! eew. my mom was feeding me rotten potatoes! they even look rotten, so i still call them all rotten potatoes.

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