When I was a young one, i absoutley LOVED ice cream sandwiches with next to all I held dear. Everytime the folks brought some home from the store, I'd be the first one to gobble up five in a day and gladly help with the groceries...,my precious sweet sandwiches as my first target.

So naturally, my older brother, who liked the treats from heaven as much as I did, got annoyed and one day told me that if I ate too many, I'd grow fat enough to crush our stove. But that didn't work, hence my high metabolism. Then he let his imagination rip as he claimed the vanilla ice cream was indeed frozen lard and mucus drained from the dead bodies at the mourge and ground chilled ear cartiladge. And he didn't stop there. He said the chocolate graham crackers were in fact mashed boogers, smashed by people's feet like wine grapes in a huge bathtub except these people had foot corns, and gangrene and hadn't washed their feet in weeks and never changed their socks.

Not gullible as most children, I asked why the dessert tasted so good, and he sophisticatedly said they had "flavor-enhancing technology" and that all the mucus slime and boggers had been frozen and "enhanced" to the "seemilngly" delicious bar I so loved to eat.

After telling my father (the fountain of all truth) , who was just as fed up with my ice cream sandwhch gluttony, went along with my brother and with a strait face said it was true.

Needless to say, my brother had all the ice cream sandwhiches he could stomach.

Loren

when i was younger i belived that if you eat "jelly Babies" you would have a baby (so i refused to eat them!) and i also belived if you eat "Love Hearts" you would get and extra heart.

only found out it was not true when i was given a huge pack of "Jelly Babies" for my birthday and i refused to eat them when i told her she burst out laughthing and promptly gave me the "how a women has a baby talk!!" i also got told about love hearts then as well!!

han

I used to think that Heath Bars were Health Bars, until I read the name more closely.

Wendy

When I was in preschool, the teacher gave us chocolate covered raisins. She told us that they were chocolate covered flies. I believed her and tried to free the flies from the chocolate. I cried because the flies were all mashed up.

Julianne

I used to believe viagra was a mint and that it was an everyday mint you could buy from the post office!!!

Bartoner

My mom liked to eat Three Musketeers bars when I was little. Because of the silver wrapping, I thought they were batteries. I would go around telling ppl that my mom ate batteries and my mom got worried that I would start eating batteries myself. My bad.

batteryacidgrl

when i was 10, my 6 year old sister told me that the white stuff in oreos was goat cheese and I believed her for many years thinking "wow! i love goat cheese, that stuff is so good!"

Anon

I used to believe cotton candy was really cotton. I distinctly remember looking out the door in horror as my family sat around the patio table eating the stuff. They offered me some, but I didn't want to eat cotton! Now I love the stuff; can't get enough of it. Yum!

Andy H

When I was younger, my cousin had told me that if you eat candy, you would grow monsters in your teeth. Of course he was talking about cavities. It still made me cry and had me nervous, but that never stopped me from my sweetie desires.

Gerry

Until I read something on this very website I honestly thought that vanilla WAS just the absence of chocolate...not ti's own flavor.

madi

When my sister was 5 she ate candy soo much. one day when she was eating skittles from her halloween candy sack, my mom told her if she ate too much, her dentist wouldnt give her any prizes any more becuz she didnt do a good job brushing her teeth. She also told her that when she ate a couple more, she would turn into a skittle and she wouldnt be able to eat or drink. she carried this belief on for quite some time. She is now 9 years old and mom told her the truth.

Mitch

I had just finished my 5th birthday party, and my mom was downstairs cleaning up. When she put away the cake, she gave me the candle on the top. It was one of the kind that are in the shape of the number. So mine was this big colorful 5. She said that I could take it up to my room. This was a big surprise for me, I thought, because she had never let me take candy up to my room before. Racing upstairs, I closed the door behind me and sat down. Then I took the biggest bite out of that big piece of candy. Only to get the wax of what was really a candle all over my teeth. I couldn't get it off for days.

watch the fireworks

When I was a kid, my older sister told me that Fig Newtons were filled with crushed cockroaches. That was over 30 years ago and I still can't bring myself to eat a Fig or any other type of Newton bar.

Anon

when i was like four, my mom took me with her to pick my brothr upfrom school, and i had a pack of skittles. i thought that if i planted some skittles and watered them, then a giant rainbow would appear and it would rain skittles, just like on the old commercials. I remember i got so upset at my mom for not letting me go to the waterfountain at the school so that i could plant the skittles.

casey

When i was small...i used to play outside with my cousins and everything...so my mom told me that we could make candy out of rocks..thats wat i belived it was made out of..since it was so hard...so we would find empty chandy wrappers and put little rocks in em.. For the longest time i belived that candy were made out of rocks...(i also swallowed one...since it was CANDY)

Tabitha

When I was young my parents gave me my first bit of cotton candy at a circus. They explained what it was, and I cried because I didn't want to eat it. I thought they were trying to feed me balled up tissues, for some reason.

Tina