food

When I was very little I distinctly recall Mom telling me to watch out for fish bones when eating fish, becuase if you accidently ate one, it would travel through your bloodstream and pierce your heart and then you'd die. I confronted the family with this a few years ago, and they denied it, of course.

I used to have the hardest time with the concept of 'Sugar Free' chewing gum. I wasn't sure whether it meant you got free sugar with the gum, or if it was just extra sweet.

My friend went to this camp called 'Sugar Free Kids'. I had an especially hard time with that one.

When i was little my mom used to take me to dennys to get pancakes. I always used to wonder what happened to all the syrup i poured on my pancakes because it seemed to dissapear. Well my grandma came to eat with us one day and i asked her what happened to my syrup and she told me that pancakes were really sponges that suck everything up and when i ate them eventually they would suck everything in my tummy up and make me fatten up untill i blew up!!!! Lets just say i quit eating pancakes for a while!

This is actually my dad's childhood belief.

Every day, after dinner, HIS dad would go and get some hardtack, which is an unleavened bread-thing that was believed to help digestion. No-one understood why Alan (aka, my Dad) would FREAK OUT and beg his father not to eat the stuff.

It was because, almost every night on the radio, he would hear about someone dying of a heart attack, but he heard it as "dead, at age 66. Cause of death is reported as hardtack."

As a child I would swallow my bubble gum when I was through chewing it. I didn't see the harm in it until my Grandmother caught me one day. She began to explain that if I were to swallow my gum that watermelons could possibly grow in my stomach. That was the last time I ever swallowed gum again. And, no, I never did grow any watermelons.

I was told that Cheetos is what alot of people did when they gambled. Then I found out that it was Cheater.

I used to watch TV shows where wifes would complain that her husband was drinking too much beer. I never understood what the fuss was all about - I loved my root beer!

Remember how your parents told you that if you fell asleep with gum in your mouth, you would wake up and it would be in your hair? Well I used to believe that this occurred through a process of the gum seeping through the head and then coming out of your hair folicles. So, one night I fell asleep with gum in my mouth. I woke up at some time that night and became afraid that the gum would seep through my head and get in my hair, so I took it out and set it on my pillow. Needless to say, I woke up in the morning with gum in my hair.

I used to believe that when you eat food from a different culture than your own, your race will change to the race of people where the food came from. So, for example, if I ate Chinese food, I will physically become Chinese.

When i was about 6, my older sister by 7 years made be believe, through a very well performed acted out statement that hot dogs inteed were made of hundreds of little worms that would be cut up and "mulched" into the meat thats inside a hot dog.

In the early 70's, I think it was Ragu that ran TV commercials where workers were picking cooked spaghetti noodles off of trees, on the spaghetti farm. My dad told me this was really where spaghetti came from -- it was harvested from trees. I believed this for quite some time.

I used to think that the orange stuff inside of acorns was cheddar cheese. I tasted the inside of acorns a number of times before finally giving up and admitting to myself that it was, in fact, not cheese.

I never used to like boiled eggs so my Mum told me if i don't eat it quickly the chicken will hatch and eat me. I only recently found out that chickens are vegetarians!

when i was 3 i believed that cheese had an inner sole and it could attack me while i was asleep so i hid it at the back of the fridge, i relised it didn't when i was 7

A bunch of friends and I loved eating the wild onions that grow in the yard , We'd collect buckets full and wash them , My mom didn't think this was healthy so she told us that they make rat poison out of wild onions , we stopped eating them in large quantities .

I used to believe that soy beans would make you skinny and give you long hair , at the time it was being grown in the fields around our house and i'd eat a big handful of raw soy beans everyday in the summer . I think the believe came from my dad saying only hippies ate soy