I believed until I was 18 that if I got tuna in the mayonaise jar, I would die the next time I ate it.
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When I was younger, I went to a diner for breakfast and the waiter brought me a side of gritz. I really didnt like gritz and so he told me that if i didnt eat it quickly, it would turn into styrafoam. I didnt even think about it and i hav'nt for about 20 years.
When I was little we used to eat at Chinese restaurants a lot, and I would always see "hunan chicken", as in chicken cooked in the style of the Hunan province in China, on the menu. I misread it as "human chicken" and thought it was made from people. Once my grandma ordered some and i freaked out- "Don't eat it Grandma! Its people!"
I was told by my uncle that Mini Eggs came from a feathered legged hoodlum bird that lived on an island. They laid the eggs for children at Easter time
Mom told us that if we didn't eat every single bite of our veggies at dinner time, we'd get colon cancer.
i used to think that they killed people and took out their liver to make liver!
Me and my cousin had these cups, and we convinced ourselves that when we put water in the cups we could make it taste like anything we wanted. so for instance we would say "this will taste like mint!" and we convinced ourselfs that it actually tasted like that lol this went on from ages 7-10 lol
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I used to believe that cheese was cows poop left for a long time until it went yellow, and worms had eaten holes in it. No wonder I still wont eat cheese
When I was about 4 or so, I believed that Tapioca pudding was fish eggs. Then, when I was about 6 my sister told me I was gonna die because I ate a green potatoe chip.
When i was 5, i thought that bananas were monkey poop.
I used to think when you drank Pepsi in the winter it would make holes in your stomach. That's what my dad told me ages ago to discourage me from drinking so much of it, even though my mom drinks a lot of it. I can't even fully convince my 20-year-old self that this isn't so.
when i was 4 i ate wambat poo thinking it was chocolate yuk !!!!!
The first time I met my Uncle from South Africa he started telling me all about their life in South Africa and he told me that they would often eat lions and zebras. I was really quite horrified, but figured as you could buy crocodile and Emu here in Australia that it was possible that in Africa they would eat Lions and Zebras.
He later told me he was making the whole thing up.
I was 20 at the time.
My mother always told me not to pour the oil from tuna cans down the sink, and I knew that tuna was somehow connected to killing Dolphins, so I always thought that if you poured the oil from the tuna can down the sink it would kill all the dolphins!
I was once told that pregant women were fat because they ate w watermelon seed. For about three years I went around telling all the pregnant women I saw that they should stop eating watermelons
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I thought pink wafer biscuits would bite me if I touched them. Absolutely no idea why.
I used to believe that if you swallowed cherry pits, you would have a tree growing in your stomach.
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I used to believe that honey was made from bees' pee when they drank too much water.
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i used to think that if you ate 14 carrots, your intestines would turn to gold (I blame this entirely on the human body magic school bus game and ms. frizzle)
When i was little , my gram and papa used to always tell me when I was eating watermelon, that if I swallowed a seed a watermelon would grow in my tummy. So I would never eat watermelon unless it was seedless, because it scared me so much...