When i was a kid, my father had me believing in the spaghetti tree, which resembled a willow tree but it was spaghetti that hung down and got cut off at harvest time. This i bought, lock stock and barrel, and was thoroughly confused when we were shown some old faked documentary showing the spaghetti being harvested in the fields in Italy!
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When we had chicken for dinner my older brother and sister told me, that if you would eat chicken wings one day you could fly! Of course that was exactly what I wanted to do! So I specialized on chicken wings, while they ate away on those legs, that being the reason why they told me that story in the first place. Everybody was happy for a long time with this agreement!
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As my surname is Brown, I thought that my family had special food especially for them - Brown sauce and Brown bread
When I was little I would always refuse to eat grilled-cheese sandwiches. It made my mother crazy, because she knew that I liked them. Finally one day she demanded to know why I wouldn't eat it and I said, "I can't eat GIRL cheese sandwiches... I'm a BOY."
my mum told me if u chewed a bit of bubble gum and u blew a bubble and if it popped in ur face it would blind u forever.i still do believe this and i have never ate a bit of bubble gum again.
I used to think that if you ate too much salt in on go, you would turn inside out and still be alive in alot of pain....I cant remember who told me that but they suck
When we were little, each of my three sisters and I all went through a faze of think we were eating "Palmers and cheese" insted of parmesan cheese on our pasta. I always wondered what palmers were and how they mixed them into the cheese. I think I was imagining something along the lines of a palm leaf, I was quite disappointed when I found out the truth.....
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I had this bad habit of swallowing my chewing gum and my dad used to tell me that if I keep doing it, a balloon would pop out when I farted.
We use to believe that if you swollow the watermelom pips, watermelons would grow out of your ears.
My dad used to drink Mountain Dew like it was going out of style and for some reason, one day he told me it is was panther piss. I looked on the ingredients and when I informed my father of this he told me they couldn't do that or no one would buy it.I believed that it was at least partially true and when I was about 16 and at Taco Bell drive-thru I ordered a 'medium panther piss'. Needless to say I didn't get a mountain dew. When I was about 19 somehow the discussion about it came up and my father almost had a heart attack when he found out that I actually believed him.
When we were little my brother loved to eat pork chops because he thought they were called Port Chops and Ports were a very rare and delicious animal because he had never seen one. He didn't learn otherwise until I told him the truth when he was in his late teens. He was rather disappointed.
my mum used to try and get me to eat brussell sprouts be telling me theye tasted like sweeties. They didnt. They got fed to the dog, hidden behind the boiler and placed under the plate so I could get away from the table. When my mum used to lift my ultra clean plate up there would be a whole host of brussell sprouts hidden under the rim!
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mr brother russ told me that some maggots crawling on the ground were macaroni and i should eat it - I didnt!
I told my kids that Chocolate custard/pudding with Pokemon on the lids were actually made from ......SQUISHED pokemons!
When I was younger my sister and I would sometimes stand out on our deck which looked into the woods eating carrots. My sister would eat a carrot and then tell me she could see through the woods to the street about 1/4 mile away and tell me what color car was driving by at the time. She told me to keep eating carrots and it would improve my eyesight so I could see that far too. I have eaten a lot of carrots in my days but still have yet to see through the woods to the other side.
I always thought that the Kellogs Special K advert which said, "For grown up people who'd rather not grow anymore.." really meant that it would stop you getting any taller. I loved the stuff but was always wary of stunting my growth. I'm 6'3" tall now (but fat)
i was frightened always by my uncle that while drinking juices if i accidentaly happen to swallow a seed then that would grow into a tree inside my stomach.i avoided drinking juices unless it was clean without any seeds.
After seeing an advert i used to think that if you planted a skittle(rainbow colored sweet) in your garden a rainbow would grow out of it and explode with skittles!
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My parents told me that scotch eggs were laid by a Haggis.
When I was about 8 years old, my brother used to tell me weird storys...
one of the consequence of his storys was that I used to belive that people cry when they cut onion because when they cut the onion they remember the "onion man" that died very young, and they get sad when remembering the story and start crying...