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when i was younger my mum told me that if i swallowed chewing gum it wud wrap around my heart and kill me, one day at school i accidently swallowed some and i had 4 of my friends tipping me upside down and shaking me to try get it out!!!

When I was 6 or 7, My sister dared me to eat a cat biscuit, then she told my mother, who said "Oh, so you are just sitting there waiting to die then are you?" I went upstairs and kissed goodbye to all my cuddly toys and laid on the bed waiting to die. It never occurred to me that the cat ate them all the time with no side effects...

when i was little, i used to love pink, and my dad told me that he once was a little girl, but he drank too much chocolate milk and turned into a little boy. i had 2 older brothers and they would always have chocolate milk. it was a long time before my mum could convince me that it was safe to drink strawberry or chocolate milk!

— strawberry-milk-aholicfood : milk

When I was little I hated green beans and my dad would say if you don't eat them they'll turn into worms. Of course that made it worse and i thought they would crawl aroung in my mouth!

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When I was 6 I used to believe that chocholate milk came from black and white cows. Silly huh.

One of the ways my mother would get myself and my sisters to finish every garin of rice in our bowl was telling us that the number grains left over would determine how many kids we would have.

me and my lifelong friend alisha both have older siblings the same age, my sister,and her brother. well anyway,when we were little me and alisha were playing together,when our older siblings came up and told us they knew how to make ice. we were awe-struck and totally amazed that they had aqquired such talent to make ice and we demanded to know the recipe

when i was little i used to tear the crust off of my bread because i didnt like it, and one day my mom and grandma told me that if i didnt eat my breadcrust my boobs would never grow! since i was (and still am) a really girly girl, i ate all kinds of crust in hopes that i would grow big boobs!

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wen i was 7-8 i used 2 belive that u must NEVER swallow bubble gum bcoz it would get stuk in ur throat and i would choke and die
i still believe it 2 this day

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When I was young I hated Pea soup so my dad told me it wasn't pea soup, it was "green vegetable soup"....I LOVED green vegetable soup.

I once asked my mom what the bumps were on potatoes, snd she told me they were called eye's. (Which they are, but my understanding was a bit different...) I actually thought they could see you. Which made me believe everything had eyes, even the vacuum. Wow, what an imagination.

— Leannefood : general

In pre school some girl that was older than me told me that there were worms inside ham burgers. About a week after that my dad ate a hamburger and I thought that I worm would grow inside of him and kill him. Then I thought that his hair was one giant worm.

— ~Cucumber~food : general

My dad told me that if I eat lots of bananas, I'll be able to whistle. I ate tons of bananas and I totally believed him. I can whistle and my brother still can't! Guess he should have eaten more bananas!!

— Lorenafood : general

My stepmother told me when I was about 5 years old that in order for your body to get the vitamins out of peanut butter you had to drink milk with it. I believed that for years!!

Beer--My mom used to tell me growing up that beer was made out of rotten potatoes and I believed it. I was in my twenties when I found out that she was lying to me. I made a comment about it to a coworker and she looked at me like I was crazy and told me the truth. How embarassing!

My mom has really curly hair and my baby sitter once said " eat your crust it makes your hair really curly" from that moment on I never ate crust because I didnt want my moms curly hair

— melissa.bfood : crusts

When i was younger my dad told me that if i ate a watermelon seed that the seed would grow inside of me and that i would have a watermelon patch in my stomach! Then i finally relized that after eating like 20 seeds accidently and nothing happened my dad was lying to me.

— Nicole~ The seed eaterfood : seeds

i used to believe that my heart was actually made up of the red apple skins. When in the supermarket, i tried to pick the apples with the most red on. I was upset when I was told to get cooking apples, coz they were green

— The dark magicianfood : general

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i used to believe that i was growing cauliflower out of my ears then realised it was wax!belive it all not im am actually 21 now.

— VEGETABLEfood : nasty food

I used to believe that butter was yummy. I ate an entire stick of butter when i was 5. I blamed the missing butter on the dog.

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