I used to think that when u swallowed gum it would get stuck to ur heart n u wud have a heart attack. i kno thats not tru now but i still dun like to swallow gum
food
5,406 beliefs in this area
When I was little, I heard my mother call my belly button a "navel." A few days later, she offered me a navel orange. I was convinced that it was some sort of belly button fruit and from then on I spent hours cleaning out my navel with Q-tips and antiseptic.
Remember Pop Rocks, those little candies that used to "explode" in your mouth? When I was 6, a friend told me that if you mixed those with soda and drank it, you'd blow up. My older brother put some into my cup of Sprite when I wasn't looking once and told me with a smirk after I had taken a long sip. I was so upset that I ran crying to my room and laid there for hours, convinced I was going to die and cursing my brother's name for all eternity. When I heard my stomach rumble from hunger, I believed I was in the final moments of my life and I started screaming so loudly my neighbors called the cops because they thought something was seriously wrong.
pick of the bunch
I thought that elmers glue was made from milk, since it had that cow on the glue bottle.
pick of the bunch
when my brother was younger i told him that sliced mushrooms (on pizza's etc) were dried slugs. my brother is now 9 and still believes me
When I was around six or seven me, my sister, and cousin all thought that those stick candies filled with powder was really fairy dust. So whenever we had some each of us would eat a stick and then go to my couch and stand at the top of the couch and jump off. We thought it would give us the ability to fly.
this isn't wat i did it about my cousin.
you know how the orange juice boxes say From Concentrate sometimes??well my cousin (when he was little)would always look at the carton and wonder where concentrate was.
When I was a kid my grandparents used to tell me that if I ate the seeds that were in the orange that a tree would start growing inside me and come out my ears and nose, I was always supercareful and once when I did eat one I couldn't sleep
When I was little, my Mom used to put her index finger over the end of a ketchup bottle, then "throw it to the ground, but change her mind" . Little did I know, she was getting the rest of the ketchup to the top of the bottle.
i had no idea that gherkin was a word until i read this website, and thought that it was a made up word until i read that it was a pickle. i suppose it must be british, ah well.
When I was about 3 years old, Gatorade was only available in one flavor - my mom had always told me that Gatorade came from squeezing gators - we live in the South, so this made sense to me - however, we were in the grocery one day, and lo and behold, new flavors of Gatorade. She says that I turned to her, put one hand on my hip, gestured toward the juices with the other, and said, "How do you explain all of these?" She did - some come from southern gators, some come from northern gators, and some comes from crocodiles.
When i was little i used to believe that the nastier the food the better it was 4 u so i once made this horrible dish it was spinach peanut butter covered in pepto bismol *yech* my mom threw up just from the smell
When I was around four or five I heard people say "candy floss" alot. My mom is REALLY serious about keeping teeth clean, so she makes me floss very night. And I thought "candy floss" was floss that tasted like sweet candy! So I got upset that I flossed very night with boring floss. After that I always looked in the store to see if they had candy floss, but all I found was regular floss. Once I asked a clerk where the candy floss was, and he showed me a basket piled high with cotton candy. I thought, "What a moron! Doesn't he know what candy floss is?" Now, though, I know better...
When i was smaller, I used to think that milk was white cow urine. I didn't know cows did not pee through their utters at that age! This idea led me to wonder wether or not other animals' urine is nutritious...
my mom used to tell me that the crust of the bread was healthier than the bread in an attempt to make me eat it. i never really ate it anyway
pick of the bunch
I used to believe that meatballs were made from dead rats.
pick of the bunch
my mum used to tell me that eating kiewi fruits where extra good for you as I could actually see the vitamins. which i later realised were just the black pips.
I used to think that watermelon seeds would blow your stomache up if you ate one,and one time I did .I thought I was going to blow up until my mom,and dad explained to me.
My mum told me that if I ate sugar from the sugar bowl I'd get worms.
I used to believe that if you ate the pips in apples a tree would grow inside your stomach.