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I used to believe that shrimp boats were boats full of little people.

I would always eat PB&J sandwiches. So when my grandpa would ask me what I ate for lunch that day, I would say "a PB&J sandwich". Then he told me that if I keep eating that every day I would TURN INTO A PB&J SANDWICH! So I was always afraid of turning into one that I went into a phase of no sandwiches. This lasted for about a year, until I learned that it was impossible to turn into a sandwich. Although I thought it would be quite funny.

I used to think that if you ate the black seeds of the watermelon a watermelon would grow inside of you and your stomach would explode. Another watermelon fear of mine was that if you ate the white part of a watermelon slice you would die. I also thought that poison was only liquid and came in bottles, and you could tell if it was poison if there was a skull and crossbones on the jar.

i used to think that when they pressed the diet button on a MacDonalds cup it automatically made it diet.. i thought it was something to do with the amount of AIR in the cup. :-D

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My hubby was told when he was a kid that ice cream had washing detergent in it. Rather than putting him off eating ice cream he liked it all the more because it was cleaning his insides at the same time!

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My cousin convinced me that Mountain Dew soda was made when hillbillies climbed up into trees and peed down into buckets. For many years I wouldn't drink Mountain Dew because of this.

I have a friend who sid he used to think diabetes was pasta so he would ask his mom, "Mom, can I have diabetes for dinner?" I cracked up when he told me

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My older sister told me that soy sauce was made from crushed beetles. Of course I avoided it at all costs until I was about 10 and began to realize that she had made that up and that it could not be true because people would not eat something made with beetles. Now I really like soy sauce but every time I use it I do pause to remember the beetles that gave there little lives! :)

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My siblings and I used to believe...

...that broccoli and cauliflower were actually little trees.

...that the "beans" in the middle of green beans were sleeping pills. [I have NO idea where we got that idea!]

...that it was possible to eat so much that you'd become full all the way to the top of your skull. We all claimed to have reached this state on many occasions.

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When I was about 3 or 4, my ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE television show was the Incredible Hulk! Now as a little kid I used to hate eating peas as much as I hated eating brussell sprouts...so one night my father told me that if I ate all my peas I'd turn green like the Hulk. Trusting my father completely I wolfed them down as quickly as possible. An hour later my parents found me crying in front of the mirror because I of course hadn't turned green! That was the last time I ever listened to my parents!

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my cousins would always eat sugar straight from the sugar bowl. i decided to try it, so i grabbed what i thought was a sugar container and really grabbed a salt container. i tasted it, and i decided i would eat straight salt. one day my mom told me i would have really high bloodpressure if i didnt stop, and told me that high blood pressure means that you heart has to work really hard to pump blood. i decided that i would give my heart a "workout" by eating more salt. i eat straight salt to this day, and now im 22.

I was told as a child that if I swallowed a watermelon seed a watermelon would grow in my belly.

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as a little kid, i was really good at blowing bubbles as big as my head and blowing a bubble inside a bubble and stuff like that. my older cousin got so fed up with all the popping noises i was making (or maybe it was she couldnt blow a bubble to save her life and she got jealous) she told me that little people thrive inside the bubbles i blow and every time i pop a bubble they can escape. she told me that they all meet in some deserted cave in mexico and that once enough bubbles have popped and there are enough of them, they will slaughter every person in the whole world. i still kept blowing bubbles though, just making sure to slap my hands closed on the air my bubbles popped in to kill all the little "people"...

I was scared to death about swallowing my chewing gum since I thought it would turn into a seed in my stomach and eventually a huge tree would grow out my mouth and I wouldn't be able to close my mouth.

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When I was little I thought that grilled cheese sandwiches were called girl cheese sandwiches and I got quite upset when my mom let my brother eat them because I insisted that they were only for girls!

i used to think that we put salt on our food because it made you feel more full. so i decided to eat salt straight from the shaker into my mouth. once i found out the truth, i decided to just do it anyway coz by then i was addicted to it...