I was told as a child that pickles were made from cucumbers. I had only seen big cucumbers like in the grocery store, so I assumed the pickling process shrunk them down and made them bumpy!
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The only yogurt we had as kids was Knudsen brand, lemon yogurt. My sister and I just called it Knudsen Yogurt, not knowing what the words meant.
Then we saw a cartoon or something with a witch making a broth, and one ingredient was "Eye of Newt."
After that we thought we were asking for Newts and Yogurt.
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when i was little i used to think that drinking soup would make me taller
when i was little i used to belive byeating a fruit seed a tree could grow inside my stomach
When I was little,I used to belive that by eating a fruit seed, a tree could grow inside my stomach.
I used to think that when I ate vegetables I will be smarter.
I used to believe that if I ate a seed in a fruit, a big tree would grow on me and I would die.
It’s negative because I was scared to eat a lot of fruits in the past but today I love fruit and it is good for my health.
I discovered it was fake when my mom obliged me to eat and told me a tree wouldn’t grow on me after eat a fruit ‘s seed.
It’s funny today because my imagination before that’s not the imagination i have today.
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when I was a child, I believed a funny thing.I tought tat if ate a watermelon seed, a big watermelon would grow my stomach.One day.I swallowed one by mistake. I was terrified, so I dranke a lot of water to drow the seed. Later, my parents sow ne crying. When I exploined the problème the laughed a lot
When i was younger i used to believe I could eat every hot sauce but one day during my holiday I ate in a fast food and I took a sauce named "the end of the world" an I put it a lot inside my hotdog I just eat a little piece of it and i cryed because it was so hot Nowadays i am careful about the hot sauce I put in my dish.
I used to think that if I ate a fruit seed it would grow in my stomach if I drink water after that
As a child, I assumed that "bread and water" in restaurants literally meant "a glass of water + crumbs of bread inside"
I used to think that watermelon seeds were dead souls
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I thought baby back ribs were from actual babies
I used yo believe that if You eat seeds a tree grew inside you
When I was a child I thought that if I passed a gum, my guts would stick.
My grandpa told me when I was little that if you swallow chewing gum your butt will be sticky
I was today year's old (63) to learn that 'pumpkin pie' is a sweet pie. Not a weird savoury vegetable pie!
Didn't connect that carrot cake, which I love gets the same treatment.
I've imagined all these potato, beet and pumpkin pies thinking ... 'but why!' 🤮
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I used to believe that the disposable BBQ's had the meat displayed on the packaging was included inside.
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I thought that “selfish” was a type of fish
When I was little I use to belief that if we swallowed the pit of a fruit, a tree would grow inside us.