Growing up in Vermont, there were many farms with many cows....for the longest time I was convinced that chocolate milk came from the brown cows!
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I used to believe that if you held a buttercup flower under the chin of someone, and you could see a yellow reflection on the skin, that meant the person really liked butter.
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My mom used to tell my brother and I that the meat in the hamburgers at Chinese restaurants was dragon meat. To this day I am still leary of chinese food.
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When I was little I used to like to eat the salt at the bottom of pretzel bags. My mom told me that if I ate the salt, I would grow mushrooms in my stomach.
When I was about 4, my aunt told me that if I ate the apple seeds, an apple tree would grow in my stomach!
I used to believe that whenever I ate something, the food would just stack up in my stomach in neat little stacks until it was ready to come out. When my science teacher explained about the digestive system, I told her my stomach was different and that I didn't have a digestive system. I had a food stacker system.
I always used to wonder what the heck hush puppies were. I knew what fish and shrimp were but couldn't figure out what the heck hush puppies looked like before they were cooked. I asked my dad what hush puppies were and he told me they were little blobs that walked on the floor of the ocean going *hush hush hush hush*. I believed that for a long time.
When I was 5 my grandma and I drove past a restraunt and their sign said "Half price cocktails". I asked my grandma what a cock was and she said a rooster. And I had a fit because I thought they were eating cock's tails.
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my dad used to tell us that popping sound you hear when you fry an egg was really baby chicks screaming for their lives.
Im not to fond of eggs.....
When my sister and brother and I where younger our parents would make liver and onions for dinner not mentioning acutally that it was "LIVER". One day we asked them to make that good steak with the onions. To our suprise we had been eating liver and onions thinking it was steak and onions the whole time!
When my sister and I were younger, she used to love to eat slices of bread. One day, she had a very bad tummy ache and I told her that it was a giant breadball in her gut that was about to explode. Needless to say I got the ol' backhand.
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When I was young my grandmother told me that brown cows make chocolate milk. I believed this for quite a while and now my kids believe it too!!
My grandmother told me when I was about 7 or 8 that if you swallowed the watermelon seeds and you drank too much water the seeds would grow and you'd get this enormous belly. I believed her! She convinced me by showing me all the beer bellys at the lake where we water-skied. There were plenty of them and I thought for the longest time it was because they swallowed the watermelon seeds. Pitiful! ha ha ha
You know how people allways say how, "theres allways room for Jello" well when i was about 6 my mother told me that Jello was made out of cow udders, i never ate Jello again.
When I was about 5 yrs old, a friend told me to never eat the ends of a banana because that is where the tarantula layed its eggs. Horrified, that no one else knew about this but us, I would diligently cut the ends off before consuming. Now, 27 years later after I learned it wasn't true, I'm still cutting off the ends out of habit. Hey, you never know.
When I was a little kid I believed that if I ate enough chicken wings I would be able to fly! Mom was just happy I was eating the wings instead of the "better" pieces.
When i was younger a friend told me chewing gum was made from cat guts, they got the guts and added flavour to it, it never stoped me chewing though
I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.
When I was a little girl, I believed that poultry grew naturally in such a way that it was split evenly down its back with one half being all white meat and the other half being all dark meat. For example: I thought each bird had one dark drumstick and one white drumstick. The reason I thought this was that whenever there was a family holiday dinner and someone began to carve up the foul they would point the knife to one side and ask "Would you like white meat?" then point the knife to the other half and say "Or would you like dark meat?" When I grew up I realized they were probably pointing to specific parts like the breast or leg, but, as a kid it just looked like half and half to me.
When I was a kid, I used to think that the reason I had to put salt and pepper on food at the table was to cool it down. Imagine my suprise when my Dad showed me how wrong I was by "cooling" down a bunch of mashed potatos with pepper one night!