food

I used to believe that tapioca pudding was made out of fish eggs and human toenails because my friends told me so in 3rd grade. To this day I can't eat it because that's the visual I get.

I believed the urban legend that gum stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it.

I used to believe that if I planted and orange or a banana or any kind of food with seeds in the dirt in my lawn a couple inches down and watered it, that I could grow an orange tree or a banana tree or what-have-you right there in suburban New Hampshire.

When I was growing up in the early 50's, we lived in a neighborhood with a huge variety of ethnic peoples. I had always thought that the only way I could get chocolate milk was to go to the neighbor's house. Mrs. Evans always gave us chocolate milk and cookies. They were African-americans!

My grandmother told me eating bread crusts made your hair grow. Didn't get me to eat them though, since I was at the age where my only interest in hair was avoiding going to get it cut.

When I was a child I used to believe that 'Wheat Flakes' breakfast cereals were (I suppose because of there shape and colour) dead mothes. I refused to eat them and my mother never new why.

When I was 6 a girl in the school cafeteria told me that I wasn't getting any vitamins from peeled apple slices, because the vitamins were really the dots on the apple peels!

When I was about 4 my friend had the chicken pox. I went to her door to see if she could come out and play. She said "no" because she ahd the chicken pox.(I never had the chicken pox, I did not know what they were) At the same time she was eating a bag of chips, and I thought they were called Chicken Pox. I would always look for the chips called "Chicken Pox" when I was in the store. I obviously never found any.

When I was about 9 I was told that if you swallowed your gum then it would be in your digestive tract for 8 years. So I figured that with all the gum I must have swallowed already I'd have gum inside of me for the rest of my life. Thankfully I learned that gum is digested just like everything else. :) I still don't like swallowing my gum anymore though. 0_o

I used to believe that Chapstick tasted the way it smelled. So, I used to eat the chapstick, especially the strawberry-smelling kind, and once at camp I had some that was mint-flavored. So I told my friend my chapstick theory, and then I took a bite out of the chapstick...I immediately learned that my theory was really really wrong, and I never made that mistake again.

When I was young my mother told me that if I swallowed bubble gum, it would stick to my liver.

When I was little, my mom told me that the eyes on potatoes were poisonous, and to this day, I can't eat potato chips with green spots or french fries with black spots because, even though I know it's not going to happen, I think I'll get really sick.

My sister told me that Crisco was frosting and I believed her because thier was a big frosted cake on the can, so i ate a huge spoonful of it. After the first bite, I realized just how mean sisters can be.

One day while finishing up in the barn, my two children (ages 4 and 6) wouldn't stop pesting for candy. The candy acutally belonged to a fellow barnmate and was there for her to feed her horse. I told my children that the candy was horse candy and that if they ate it they would turn into horses. We were halfway home from the barn when both brokedown into tears and said they were feeling really "funny". They proceeded to tell me that they had each taken a piece of the candy without me knowing and eaten it. They both thought for sure they were beginning to grow hooves, fur, a tail and ears.

I used to believe that paprika was dried chicken blood because that is what my dad told me when I was about 5. I didn't find out it was red pepper until I proudly raised my hand in Home Economics Class in middle school to tell the whole class that it was dried chicken's blood.

My mother and grandparents, used to tell me if I swallowed Watermelon seeds a Watermelon plant would grow in my stomache. It made me so paranoid when eating Watermelon!