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.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- I used to think that slugs were just snails who had lost their homes!Anon
- My brother used to believe that dried out boogers were actually "paving" the inside of your nose. — sm
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!
- When i was little, (4 or so) i convinced myself that snails only ate apple peels.
I have no idea why.— Terracrafty - I used to believe that the sky is just a very thin blue egg shell— Alan
- I used to think shell macaroni was sea shells.— Don Northrup