food

i used to believe that if i ate vegetables i would turn into Barney. Therefore, i only ate bacon and ended up in the hospital with scurvy. now i love barney and especially baby bop. i have a blanket just like hers and i eat vegetables all day long.

When I was 4, I thought that if I ate Fruit Gushers, my head would turn into a fruit.

When I was about 8 years old I developed a liking to lemons. As there was a big lemon tree in out front garden, I used to climb the tree, gather about 4-5 lemons and chow down on them sprinkled with salt.
My mom was irritated to see me eat so many lemons in one go (including the seeds) and she told me that if I don't stop eating them little lemon trees would grow in my tummy. It diddn't stop me eating lemons, but I did stop eating the seeds.
I believed her story right up until I was a teenager, when I accidentally swallowed a seed. I nervously waited for a tree to grow, and when none did I told my mom what an awful fibber she was!

Here I am laughing at what kids think. As a kid I've believed a couple of the things as well.

Until I get the to gum section. Imagine my shock to learn that gum does NOT stay in the stomach for several years like I've always believed. I had to Google it to prove myself wrong just now. I'm 34.

When me and my 2 brothers were young we were told that we couldn't drink 'Coca Cola' because it would make us really ill, we'd be sick and might die because we were allergic to it. One day round at my Aunties she was trying to get us to drink coke. We were convinced she was trying to kill us and we were all screaming and crying. It turned out the our mum wouldn't buy coke because it was the most expensive.

For as long as I can remember I have not liked onions. Since my daddy did he would always try to sneak them into my food. One day, I was about five, he made chicken and fried potatoes for me and mom. When I asked him if there were onions in it he looked me dead in the eye and said "eat 'em, they'll put hair on your butt". For the next few years of my life I checked my backside every night before bed just in case I accidentally ingested a piece of onion. To this day I wont even touch them. I am 23.

i use to believe that all chickens were girls and all roosters were boys and so0o every time i ate a chicken i thought i was eatn a gurl chicken and since im a girl i stopped eat chicken.

when I was 5 - 6 a kid tried to convince me that the black bits in the middle of a banana was ELEPHANT MEAT. He told me with great conviction, yet I wasnt sure.........

I was told that those little aniseed balls that are too hard to crunch, and you need to suck, made your teeth go black. the whole family was in on it, aunts, grandparents, parents. Even when I checked my teeth and they werent black, I was still told they were AND I BELIEVED IT!! And the only way to clean the black off your teeth was to eat a raw carrot!

I know this is common, but when I was about six i saw the commercial for gushers. I was scared to eat them after that, because I was afraid my head would turn into a fruit. My brother confirmed this and told me never to eat them. Later, I found out he just told me that so he could have all of the gushers.

my uncle used to think that "parmesan" cheese was called "Farmer John" cheese.... it took him YEARS to figure out the real word!

i used to think salt was made of sand

When I was about 6 I thought crumpets grew on trees because my Aunty used to bring a pack with her when she visited us. One day she didn't and I asked why not. She replied "they're out of season" so naturally I thought they grew on trees!

when i was young i used to believe that if you swallowed chewing gum, it would get all stuck around your rib cage. i once cried when i swallowed some with fear of it happening.

I used to believe that the eggs my mother used to keep in the fridge would hatch if i kept them warm enough. So i used to put them under my pillow or hid them anywhere around the house to find it squashed under my bed or rotting behind the tv the next day or whenever i checked on it.

My dad once told me that I was cruel to eat runny eggs, they could of been little chicks he said, I did eat another runny egg until on honeymoon they looked lovely so I ate them again