When i was little I thought the bruised part of the banana was the healthiest part. That's what my mom told us to get us to eat it.
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I used to think that orange squash was called 'sum' because when my mum would pour my brother a drink she would ask me 'Do you want sum?'
I used to believe anchovies and artichokes were the same thing.
I stopped eating yoghurt when I was a kid, after I found out it was made from milk that had gone off.
My friend had me convinced that when you broke a peanut in half, the little thing at the top, bettween the two was a gnome. I would pick that part out.
I used to think that swallowing watermelon seeds would result in actual growth of watermelon in my stomach...i still do.
My parents had me convinced when I was a child that the cuts of meat we ate for dinner were from dinosaurs. it was the only way they could get me to try anything new.
When I was little, I sometimes swallowed the chewing gum accidentally. When I told my mother about this, she said my intestine would be stuck into a mess. What my mother said often made me worried for a few days.
My niece used to call Marmite Falloy! Where she got the word Falloy from nobody knows
I used to chew gum when i was sleeping,and it was still inside my mouth.
My mum said that if i swallowed the gum ,it would stick to my stomach and I would have a stomachache.
In the late 60s a type of artificial sweetener called 'cyclamates' were banned, and one brand of orange squash had 'cyclamate free' printed on the label. I couldn't work out why they were giving away flowering house plants with squash.
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i used to believe that swallowing an apple or watermelon seed would cause the fruit to grow and grow inside you until your stomach exploded.
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I used to believe that Skor chocolate bar was only made for grown ups and if I ate it I'd die.
When I was younger my sister told me that cream eggs were made with real cream (which I didn't like) so that I would give any that I had to her!
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We were always told that if we drank vinegar our blood would dry up
When I was a young child, my parents would have heated discussions regarding the state of their finances. During these converstaions, my mom would often say "I just can't make ends meet." I believed that end's meet was a sort of casserole or lunch meat: end's meat. I didn't understand at all the importance of my mom making end's meat when I was perfectly happy with hotdogs and mac and cheese.
When I was little, my first teacher told us to smash up the shell of our boiled eggs so the devil couldn't use them as a boat, but my Grandmother would tell us not to play with our eggshells, otherwise we'd get warts, I worried for quite dome time whether it was best to be warty or demon posessed.
I believed when I was little that a pickle (of course)would grow into a cucumber and if let to grow further it would become a watermelon!
I used to believe, that robinsons tropical fruit juice,that is a horrible green was poison and I would never drink it when offered.
My mother once told me that you had to cut off the ends of cucumbers, and rub them on the tips of the vegetable to remove the poison. I did that for many years, when cooking for myself, until I realized it was just another of her
'myths', which she had plenty.