Somebody told me when I was 7 that you can't gain weight until you were 16. So, I ate all the sweets I wanted, and now at age 13, I have now just lost all the weight after realizing my faults.
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I use to believe that if I ate to much sugar just by itself, it would become worms inside my stomach.
I had my brother convinced that the Coke and Pepsi people hated each other so much that they put chemicals in the drink that would kill you if you mixed Coke and Pepsi in your stomach. So, you had to pick just one and stick with it.
when i was 5 my sister used to tell me if i got chewing gum stuck on my self it would stay there forever i never ate chewing gum again till i was 6 and a half
My sister who is 40 years old, mind you, just told me that she heard long ago that if you eat watermelon and lie down, you will die. I said from what? She says you drown somehow? Duh?! How is that possible??? She is 40 and still believes this!
When i was little and I wanted to eat at Wendy's I used to tell my mom i wanted to eat at the place with "the little girl with red hair" in spanish, for some reason she never understood me. I don't see why she didn't... oh well
i used to think that when you ate things like liver and brains it would add to your own, the little bits after being chewed would move to corresponding organ in your body. if u ate more liver your liver would grow.
You know how the wrappers of tootsie pops have pictures on them? One of the pictures is of an Indian shooting a star with his bow and arrow, but it isn't printed on all of them, only about half. When I was little, an older kid in the neighborhood told us that if you found a wrapper with that picture, you could turn it in to a store and they would give you a free plane trip to Hawaii. I totally believed her! I sort of imagined that the cashiers at convenience stores had tickets to Hawaii in their cash registers, just waiting for some little kid to come in with a wrapper. There was a store that sold tootsie pops down the street from our house, and we went in to show the employees our candy wrappers, hoping to get a free vacation. They were rather amused.
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I was a little Catholic girl, and I used to believe that deviled ham was chopped up devils.
when my mom used to tell me someone had a sweet tooth, i thought it was like an actual tooth in the back of your mouth, and only certain people were born with that extra tooth. I was jealous of people with "sweet tooths" because I wanted an extra tooth in my mouth too.
when i was a little kid, my parents told me that how ever many grain of rice i left on my plate, it would appear on my face. so, when i saw people with pimples on their face, i thought it was because they left rice on their plate.
when i was little, i accidently swallowed an orange seed, and i thought an orange tree would grow in my stomach. i thought i couldn't eat anything after that because the food i swallow would plant the seed down, and the drink would water the seed, making the orange tree grow.
I used to believe that if you ate those watermellon looking seeds on a sausage pizza that it would grow and get very large, I guess that is why I like the pepperoni and the cheese better.
When I was younger I used to believe that whenever I would drink Kool-aid that huge Kool-aid "ohh, yeahh!" guy would jump through my wall. So I never drank the stuff.
Once when I was younger I thought that a mistake was some kind of meat like a porterhouse or a t- bone, so when my parents would say that they made a mistake I thought dinner would be ready soon.
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Once my mother told me that if i ate 2 apples in a day, i would automatically get diahrreah!
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When I was about six, my best friend told me the moon was made of green cheese. I wouldn't eat cheese again for years.
i used to think these were snakes that u put on your thumb, then i went to my dads office party and there was picking the gerkin out of the jar. i later got told that when i was about 1 i had eaten a huige gerkin, i used to think that i had a huge snake swimming around in my tummy.
When I was in grade school, the latest craze in candy was Pop Rocks, a candy that fizzed and popped when you put it in your mouth. I was always told that if you ate Pop Rocks and drank soda that your stomach would explode. This comment was always preceded by "I head about this kid who...." One time I ate Pop Rocks and a minute later had a drink of Pepsi, only realizing after what I had done. For weeks I thought the food was just falling down inside me instead of going in my stomach. I kept waiting for the pain to start. :)
I used to call Nerds "Turds". I used to have a friend and her parents always kept boxes of Nerds. And everyday I'd ask "Can I have a turd?"
That must've been a sight to see.