food

Until I was 13, I didn't know that the meat I ate consisted of muscles. I thought that bodies contained muscles, lungs, all the usual internal organs - PLUS meat, which was sort of a filler material.

I have no idea where I got this from, but I remember thinking that the little red berries that grew on some trees were highly toxic, so much in fact that I used to hold my breath and run under the trees - in case I accidentally inhaled one. Oh yeah - my mates also told me that it took you 7 years to digest chewing gum - I swallowed it anyway, and still do :-P

My dad told me if I swallowed watermelon or apple seeds that plants would grow in my stomach. I thought that was so cool that I swallowed a bunch of seeds just to see it work. How disappointed I was when this didn't come to, erm, fruition.

When my brother and I were little, we believed that lemons were sweet because any time we had something with lemons in it, it was sweet. We believed that until our Dad brought home a lemon and gave us a slice. I took one bite and accused him of injecting soap into it!

When I was little my mum told me if I swollowed chewing gum it would stick to my puddings,I always imagined steak and kidny puddings inside me.

once during vacation, i started reading the salt package, and when i saw "crystaline table salt" y yelled out loud "no, we can't use this salt, it's for crystaline tables, we're eating on a plastic one"

If you swallowed chewing gum it would make a balloon inside you and your stomach would explode

I never knew that raisins were dried grapes. One day I accidently dropped a grape and it rolled under our microwave. A few months later my parents changed the kitchen around and I wondered why there was a raisin where I'd left a grape.

I believed that since vegetables came from the ground it was my duty to wash them, so I put them in with my mums washing. She only knew when she heard them banging around!

When very young I was stood looking into the window of a butchers with my mum. I pointed at some red meat (I think it was probably liver) and asked my mum what it was. She said Lamb (I don't think she knew which meat I meant). But I heard it as "man" and was convinced from then on that butchers sold human meat!

Aged about six or seven, I was sat eating breakfast with my father and grandfather and asked them what "Daddies" brown sauce was made of. "It's made of daddies", they told me. I was horrified and was convinced for years that some day the sauce people would come and make my Dad into sauce.

I used to think that hotdogs came from charcoal cubes. I think it started when I watched my father set up a barbeque. I never saw the hotdogs placed on the grill. All I remember is seeing the dogs on the grill and the charcoals disintegrated...

My mom used to say that if I did not eat the crusts on my sandwich that THE BREAD CRUST MAN would get me, I guessed he was like the boogie man and get you while you slept.

i was told by an older cousin that if i ate an apple pip i would grow apples in my tummy, i was terrified i would have an apple tree growing in my stomach for ages after i accidently ate one.

When I was a child, my Mom told me that carrots had vitamins in them. I tried and tried to see them and was sure if I kept eating them that one day I would find a vitamin tablet inside.

You know how on your standard loaf you have the flat bottom with the sharp corners and the rounded top with no corners? Well, I used to think that I was more likely to choke eating the sharp corner of the crust, so I always made sure (especially when having toast) that I ate the rounded corner first so that I would live longer.