I use to think if you ate pop rocks you ate pop rocks and drank coke you would explode.
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When I was little I use to think hot dogs were pig guts.
I used to believe sauerkraut was made from animal brains.
I had taken my 5 year old son to a popular fish-n-chips place to eat. Our food arrived and as I passed out the food, he loudly exclaimed, "I won't be eating any of those dog balls!" (He was talking about the hushpuppies)
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When I was little I didn't know that omelets were made with eggs, so when my mother asked me how I wanted my omelet I would always say: with eggs!
When I was little I didn't understand about digestion and the relationship between food and "poop". I thought that when you were asleep the food would go down your leg and crawl out your feet. I would always think about little grren bean opening a door in my heel and walikng across my bed!
When I was young I used to believe that if you swallowed the pips of fruit that particular fruit plant would grow out of my bum.It really scared me as a kid.
Dad used to say that if I swallowed a watermelon seed, a plant would grow out of my ear. I thought about it for a while and came to the conclusion that it could work because my earwax would be the perfect substitute for soil.
when i was about 5 or 6 my mum always told me to be very careful not to swallow any watermellon seeds because if i did a watermellon would start growing in my tummy and no body would ever be able to get it out. i believed this because my older sister told me our dad (who had a very big belly) had swallowed some seeds and he had a watermellon in his tummy... he still has a big belly maybe its still in there.
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My girlfriend believed someone who told her that chewing gum was made from dogs bones!
I used to be very scared of swallowing seeds when i was small. Once when swallowed a seed of a lemon, and i refused to open my mouth in the morning coz i felt if i opened my mouth, the branches of the klemon tree would come out of it.
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I used to believe that if I closed my hand on a handful of peanuts, the peanuts would transform into a Snickers bar.
Because i was the youngest of 3 brothers my mom told me at an early age that chickens had front legs, all because i wanted a leg like my big brothers. I found out at school when the dinner lady said in front of everyone, chicken only got two legs !
try and live that one down .
As a young child I was told spiders laid their eggs in the bottom of banana peels so I would never eat the last bite. Even to this day I inspect the bottom of the banana carefully before eating.
My grandmother used to tell my cousins and I that if we ate sugar cubes worms would grow in our bodies.
When I was little I used to believe that a serial killer was a man who came to your house and crushed your cheerios. For years I used to check my cereal boxes everyday to see if he had come.
When I was 3 or 4. I thought, if I eat a kernel, it will grow in my stomach.
One day my grandmother took me to McDonald's for hamburgers and french fries. I bit into a fry that had a hollow space in it. I showed it to her and said "Look, nan, they didn't finish stuffing this one!" I couldn't understand why she laughed so hard at that!
I used to believe that marshmallows were grown. I just wondered HOW they grew. I pictured something like a pumpkin patch. It took a while to figure out they were made with sugar.
When I was little I was told that if I swallowed my chewing gum it would wrap around my heart.