I used to believe that my mother wouldn't notice when I opened a new pack of cookies, eat some of them, then rearrange the ones left in the package, and seal the package with some sellotape. Being a mom myself now, I know that it is impossible not to notice....

Flower

Until I was about 7, I genuinely believed easter eggs were empty cardboard boxes, as my parents would take out the chocolate and eat it, to protect my health!

Ed

I used to believe that there was a shop in switzerland that sold bags of bogeys with sugar for eating

laura

in my country people buy or bake tasty cookies for new year eve,when i was 4years old i used to believe these cookies come from trees and cooky trees bloom only one time in year for new year

Baran

When i was little there used to be an advert where a man rolled up some snow and turned it into a chocolate mint cream to give to his girlfriend. I was convinced that was how they were made & for the next couple of years, every time it snowed i used to try & make them! I was SO frustrated that i just couldn't get it right. Deary me!

Mike

when i was a kid, i used to believe that 'polos' (a british mint sweet with a hole through the middle) used to give you special super-powers when you ate them (i was a green-eyed fan of christopher reeve's superman at the time, i think). as a result, me and my friend used to sit in the garden, munch a load, and then beat each others brains out for a few hours each weekend. maybe my parents should've replaced them with ritalin.

anon, uk

When I was a kid, somebody told me that there was formic acid (which is called "antz acid" in german)in mentos.
Thenceforwards i really believed that mentos is made out of squashed antz.
So i avoided eating it.

Tina from Germany

When I was about three or four, my mom always told me that chocolate was bad for you. So I thought it was created in a lab by an evil scientist who purposely made it taste good just so he could trick kids into eating it and making them unhealthy.

Anon

Back when the 101 Dalamtians movie had first come out, they had white chocolate/cookie candy bars with Dalmatians on the wrapper to promote the movie. My best friend at the time and me convinced his 4 year old nice that the candy bars were made out of ground dalmatians, and everytime she took a nibble, we'd make yelping sounds. She believed us after a few minutes and started crying. It took a few years before she would eat another cookies n cream candy bar!!

Boogah

When I was little my parents would tell me if I ate candy before noon I would get worms.

Jenny

When i was younger i used to think that those balls with bubble bath in were sweets and my sister ate them too so i copied her. I always thought too my self they aren't really that nice!

strange child

I thought that Devil's food cake was invented by Satanists!

Dietrich Corby

Does anybody remember that Skittles ad where the farmer planted Skittles candies in the ground and a rainbow grew out of it? I can tell you by experience that it doesn't work.

Liva

one day me and my cousin planted skittles in my grandma's backyard because we actually thought it'd rain skittles!!!!

Nikkita

Until I was about 16 I used to believe, for some unknown reason that Marshmallows grew on bushes. I remember I asked my my mom which state grew the most marshmallows and she looked at me like I had two heads. We still laugh about that.

Anon

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 I was about 7, I thought Ben and Jerry's 'Chunky Monkey' ice cream really had monkey in it, and refused to eat it.

Bailey

when i was little my uncle would give me angel food cake and he would tell me it's an angels birthday and thats what they are eating in heaven.

ada

I used to take the name "Jawbreakers" literally and assumed that they were meant to be chewed at the risk of breaking your teeth.

Anon

I thought Marshmallows were a fungus becuase I confused them with Mushrooms. I have learned to enjoy mushrooms but still don't like Marshmallows...

Mary