food

My daughter is scared to eat that Gushers candy because she belives that her head will turn into a fruit if she eats it. She also thinks that if she eats Gogurt, it will really make her voice sound like Dexter and DeeDee. (just like that dumb commercial shows) I cannot convince her otherwise on either one.

I used to think that if you swallowed your bubble gum you'd pee through your mouth.

i used to believe that tastes could cancel eachother out so i always ate my chocolatey desert at lunch first and then cleans my palatte with something else so my chocolate milk wouldnt taste like just milk.

When I was little I thought mixing milk and water together was my invention (called "milkwater", creatively enough). My dad always would drink milkwater and tell me how smart I was for coming up with such a delicious drink. I never realized I wasn't a culinary genius until at 6 or so I went over to a friend's house and my friend drank milkwater and I got upset that she didn't give me credit for it.

Of course, later I talked to my dad and he said he hated how it tasted and it was just a ploy to get me to drink milk.

My mom told me that frozen bananas are poisonous. I believed this until I was 25.

Just to be cruel, my brother told me that Rice Crispies where dried moth eggs/larva. I didn't eat Rice Crispies for several years.

My mom had 4 kids, all relatively close in ages. She had her hands full, to say the least! My sister Pamela used to “sneak” slices of mozzarella cheese whenever my mom made her famous chicken parmesan. Four kids = eight arms! After one meal where half the chicken was cheese-less, my mom decided to use a ruse to keep my sister’s fingers off the table. She told her that mozzarella cheese was poisonous until cooked. My sister, being sneaky, didn’t want to admit she’d already eaten two slices and became very frightened! She stopped eating the cheese! The plan worked, and mom was free to cook and watch the two younger kids without having to haunt over my sister’s shoulder. But my sister never forgot… and everyone else did! The white lie was caught when my sister started telling her high school friends that they couldn’t eat Polly-O string cheese because it was poisonous ‘raw’. When Pam came home to tell Mom the embarrassing tale, everyone roared with laughter. We had all forgotten that day in the kitchen, except for my sister! She carried that fear of mozzarella cheese with her for well over ten years.

My mom would get me to eat mushrooms by telling me they would make my boobbies grow really big!
Well 26 years later and I'm still eating lots of mushrooms, but I think she meant to say they would make my thighs grow instead.

When I was little, I remember watching a health cartoon about a little boy who got acne when he ate chocolate- I thought the acne was permanent freckles and I REFUSED to eat chocolate for years.

When I was 5, I thought that if I ate that cheesy dressing stuff my head would turn into a cheese like the guy in the commercials.....

i always got told that if you ate too many carrots your whole body would turn orange .then i was told that carrots improved your eyesight.so i ate a bunch of carrots and waited for my skin to change colors.

when i was 8 my friends told me that if you ate 'pop rocks' and drank 'cola' at the same time your stomach would explode .I still wonder every now and then.

My dad used to tell me that Hostess Snowballs were only for adults. I believed him for many years

I usedto believe that my veggies had feelings. If I left a couple of peas in my plate I felt guilty because they needed to be with their "family", so I ate every last one up. It was a great way to get me to clean my plate!

i loved chicken livers when i was little.But i called them chicken buzzards, one day i said mom fix me some chicken buzzards!

When I was 3, I was told by my much older neighbor friends that the red pistachios they were eating were medicine and that little kids can't eat them or they would die.

Why do/did they dye the pistachios red in the first place?