I convinced my boyfriend that paprika flavored crisps were made from donkeys...he was 20 at the time.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- I believed Dr. Pepper was pepper-flavored medicine and was afraid to drink it.Anon
- My sister convinced me that tapioca was made with fish eyeballs.— Eileen
- I was convinced that paper could only be made out of Birch trees (because they had white bark).Anon
- My older sister had me convinced that noodles grew on trees, but that rice was man-made...— Trusting little brother
- I had my wife convinced that Steven Hawking made his fortune as the original voice for the speak N spell toy.Anon
- I convinced my sister that chocolate milk was made out of Keebler cookie elves, she believed me for a month— Rainbow Steel