food

I used to believe…

my mum told me if i used to run like a chicken or eat it i would turn into one and everyone would eat me! i got really scared and cried for hours!

I used to believe that life preservers and preserves (as in jam) were the same. I asked my mother how could we use the preserves to save a life, and she didn't understand why I made that assumption.

I used to believe…

When I was little my mom always made sure us kids had a good breakfast to start the day off right. Every time she made eggs sunny-side-up or over easy, I wouldn't eat, and would complain that she didn't take the bacon out of the bacon and eggs. For months my mom couldn't figure out what I was talking about because there wasn't any bacon on my plate, only eggs. I didn't like the yolks and thought those were the bacon in bacon and eggs.

I believed that swallowing chewing gum could kill you, because it could stick to the sides of your windpipe and form an airtight layer in your throat and choke you. It never occured to me that it actually went down the other pipe. I used to wonder why everyone in high school swallowed it and NO ONE DIED. I couldn't believe that they would take such a big risk as to not get caught chewing. I believed this for my entire life, until five minutes ago when this website proved me wrong. I am fifteen.

I used to believe that if someone swallowed seeds of fruits, they would grow in our stomach.

I used to believe…

When I was little, my mom put some eggs in a bowl out on the table (ready to cook for dinner) And I thought the chicks were alive in the egggs, and so I took 2 eggs and hid it in a shoe box. 3 weeks later, I opened it, and nothing was there. So I dumped it. Hahahha, what a waste of eggs ;] -bw age-11

I used to believe…

My best friend thought that if you swallowed a watermellon seed, you'd grow a baby and that was how people became pregnant. She didn't eat watermellon for many years.

She also thought that moonbeams came out of her bellybutton at night.

i used to believe that a kiwi fruit was a genetically modified fruit made from melon and banana (the banana being the middle). why? because my best friend told me so, so i believed her, and would never eat it after that... or until I discovered that it was a joke, and then discovered that I am illergic to kiwi fruit!

I used to believe…

When I was little, I thought someone lived behind the shelves where the milk was. I mean, I did see the milk being restocked, so why shouldn't there be someone living there to restock it? AND ONE DAY, I recall seeing the actual person who lives there, and I was really excited, so I told my mom. She didn't believe me one bit, of course.

I used to believe…

When I was a little girl, I used to think that if you sliced an apple and left it in the fridge overnight, it would turn into cucumber slices?

I used to believe…

In Massachusetts there used to be an ad on TV by the Farming Association. The jingle went "Brown eggs are local eggs, and local eggs are fresh!"

For years and years I believed that all eggs, everywhere, start out brown, and turn white in transport. Therefore, brown eggs are fresher because you know they came from some chicken closeby and was recently lain.

It wasn't until I got to college in New York and found with disgust that all the available eggs were white, that I realized how deeply this prejudice against white eggs had been ingrained. I was 19 and had to consciously remind myself that white eggs are not, by definition, almost rotten.

i used to think that if you ate dirt, a sunflower seed, and drank water a sunflower would grow in your stumach.

I used to believe…

when iwas about 5 i was afraid to eat water melon because ibelieved that if u ate the seed that a watermelon would grow in your stomach and get bigger and bigger until u blew up into water melon pieces

I used to believe…

when i was little, i watched these kids bible videos called veggie tales. being easily fooled by the CGI, i belived that all vegtables could hop, an talk, and do normal stuff when in the fridge.as a result i would sneak the plastic bags off them b/c my mom told them not to put them over my head, and naturally, i didnt want them to suffocate. and 1 time i refused to eat my asparugus, and i was crying. then my dad said"c'mon, dont you wanna eat Junoir?" i promply screamed at my parents for eating junior, and got sent to my room. (my parents figured out that they had to tell me wonders about the vegtables to get me to eat them, like "if you eat asparugus, your pee-pee will come out orange" i belived them and choked down down the asparugus and ran into the bath room, then started yelling stuuf like"go pee-pees! i wanna see my orange pee-pee!")

I used to believe that if you ate seeds, you'd grow a plant of whatever seed it was in your stomach.

I used to believe that the inside of pizza crusts were spiderwebs, so I was really scared that a spider would crawl out and bite me... or that I would eat a spider! Even though I thought they were spiderwebs, I still ate them, which confuses me. I would carefully pick off pieces of the crust while eating.