food

I used to believe my mom when she told me that if I would get terribly sick if I drank milk and then soda, one after the other. I now believe she told me this because she didn't want us kids drinking a large amount of expensive milk and soda rather than ordinary water.

I used to belive that if i swallowed the pip of an apple a tree would grow inside me.

I used to believe…

When I was about four of five, I used to eat rice crispies in front of the TV. Then came the day that I asked my dad what the snaps and crackles were when I poured the milk in. He said that they were snaps, crackles and pops. I then remembered that Snap, Crackle and Pop were the names of the elves on the cereal box. That gave me the idea that they were living in my cereal. I didn't eat rice crispies again for a while.

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When I was a child my mother always made homemade bread and told us that burnt bread would "give you rosy cheeks."
I used the same excuse for burnt food when my children were little. One said, in her adult years, "and we actually believed you."

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As a child my family and I were eating tapioca pudding. My dad told me we were eating fish eggs just to tease me. Since then I have not been able to eat tapioca pudding.

I used to believe…

Up until I was 15 I thought that eating orange seeds would make an Orange Tree grow up inside your tummy. I got so scared when I accidentally swallowed one that I didn't drink water for days because I didn't want it to "grow."

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When I was young, and until today, my mom was quite a prude, and I guess didn't want to tell me where milk came from, so somehow, from whatever she said, I thought it was cow urine!.

I used to believe…

when my brother and i were younger we liked messing around with our little sister. one time she went to grab a lime out of the fridge and we screamed "NOOOO!!!!! what do you think you're doing? you're going to get lyme disease!!!" for years she wouldn't even look at a lime.

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when i was young around 5 or so i loved grapes sooo much until one day my aunts and uncles decided to scare me... they told me if i swallowed the seed a tree would grow out of my head... i believed it until i was 10 when i wondered how on earth can a persons head stand the weight of a tree??

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When I was little, my big brother told me that malted milk balls were really made of dehydrated earthworms. Of course, he really just wanted me to give him all of my candy. It worked. I still can't eat the stupid things.

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when i was little my sister told me that if you swallowed an apple seed you would turn into an apple. I got so terrified and i never ate to the seeds. I still dont eat to the seeds. [it became a habit.]

I didn't know until I was in 7th grade that meat came from animals. I thought it was made at the grocery store and the fact that the different types were named after animals was just clever. I did, however, know that we ate fish and seafood. This belief was also perpetuated when my older brother told me in 4th grade what hotdogs were made out of. I was so disgusted I asked my mother to confirm, and she said that he was wrong.

I used to believe that there was a brand of cake mix called "scratch" because my mom used to tell me she made her cakes from scratch. I always thought there were cake mix boxes with a "scratch" label, like Betty Crocker.

I believed my mother and my grandmother would spit in my drink, to help me grow and be like them. I am strange, I know. After i poured my drink in the cup I would always keep an eye on it.

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Once I was at my freind's grandma's house & me & my freind were eating ice cream, & we put LOTS of sprinkles on it & my freind's grandmasaid if we ate too many sprinkles we would turn into a sprinkle! I believed this till I was 7. :P :)

I used to believe…

My dad told me that Chiclets gum (the kind little kids sell on the streets in Mexico) was made from gum scraped up off the sidewalks. I can't eat Chiclets to this day.