food

I used to think that Heath Bars were Health Bars, until I read the name more closely.

I used to believe…

When I was in preschool, the teacher gave us chocolate covered raisins. She told us that they were chocolate covered flies. I believed her and tried to free the flies from the chocolate. I cried because the flies were all mashed up.

I used to think there was something wrong with the way my mother cooked fried chicken because the chicken legs sometimes had a dark streak. I didn't know that was a vein (or something natural), but thought it was poop on it. I didn' want to hurt my mother's feelings, so I just told her I wasn't hungry.

I used to believe…

When I was little, a child in my class told me that skim milk was skin milk. He claimed that they made it with ordinary milk, but they put a piece of cow skin in it and left it in the sun. A few days later, a milk carton cleared this up.

I used to believe…

My parents used to tell me when I was about 5 that if I ate bubblegum and swallowed it that it would stay there for seven years.

They also told me that if I ate the watermelon seeds that in about a couple of years I would have a watermelon growing in my tummy.

I believed for a long time that brown cows gave chocolate milk!

I used to believe…

My grandpa used to tell me that eating pickles would make me grow hair on my chest. I am a girl, but I loved pickles so much I couldn't help myself! After eating a few, I would always run to the bathroom to see if I had grown any hair.

I used to believe…

When I was a little girl my mom said that if you drank coffee your knees would get black and that is why she told me to never drink coffee and I still don't.

I used to believe that watermelon trees would grow out of my ears if I swallowed the seed. I also believed that if I drank dark coffee my skin would turn black, these are the things my grandpa told me. Of course, I know better now at 31 years old.

I used to believe…

When I was really little my cousin told me that tapioca pudding was made from fish eggs. I believed it till like age 15 when I went to Brazil and they showed us the plant the tapioca pudding came from.

I used to believe…

As a very small child shopping with my mother, I saw my mum put a can of tuna in the shopping trolley with a picture of a dolphin on the side (meaning it was dolphin free tuna). I, however, thought it meant it contained dolphins and went into complete hysterics.

I used to believe…

When I was a kid, in order to get me to eat the whole sandwich for lunch, my mom told me that all the healthy nutrients in bread were in the crusts of the bread (the part I didn't like to eat). I believed this until I was about 25 and actually thought about it.

I used to believe…

Whenever they told on the news that people in Africa need food aid, I actually thought people would go to stores, buy bread and milk and give the groceries to Red Cross which would ship them to the hungry in Africa.

I used to believe…

Once my mom told me that if i swallow an orange seed a tree would grow inside my stomach. and i believed it..lol

I used to believe…

when i asked my grandfather where do buffalo wings come from he replied the buffalo are so big that when they are born we have to clip their wings so they dont hurt anybody and waste not want not.

I used to believe…

When I was little I thout Cows made Milk, horses made water and goats made apple juice!