I used to believe that the middle chocolate part of a feast ice cream was poisonous, i once saw my dad eating one and thought he was going to die. I shouted out for him to stop eating it and every one laughed at me.
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I used to believe that if I swallowed a seed a tree would grow inside me.
I used to think that 'Dilute to taste' meant that if you didn't add water you couldn't taste it. One day I downed a glass full of undiluted Ribena and realised my error.
My mum used to feed us endless amounts of marrowfat peas. Both my sister and I hated them. I used to think my stomach wouldn't eat them and that they'd pile up to the point where I'd explode and cover evryone in the vicinity with undigested marrowfat peas. To this day my Mum is convinced we liked them.
My sister tood me that if I ate sunflower seeds they would grow inside me. I used to have night terrors about giant flowers growing out of my eyes and mouth. Suprisingly I get on well with my sister despite her mental torture.
I used to believe that if a ate spaghetti mixed into mashed potatos that it would taste like baked beans. I was never very keen on spaghetti.
I used to believe that if you cut a slice of bread in half and made a sandwich out of it, you only ate half a slice.
My wife was told by her mother, that men who sold burgers and hotdogs from stands, urinated in the onions as they had no where else to go - she still won't eat a burger to this day - her arguement......where else do they go?!!!
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I used to think that broccolli was baby trees, and used to hide mine and plant it, in the faint hope that it would grow.
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I used to believ that that a cheese burger was a burger made out of cheese - and so regarded the dripping brown sizzlers for the first nine years of my life.
I used to believe, because of my Uncle telling me this was so, that Minces (as in Mince Meat Pies) were animals that could only be killed with guns, but that it was really, really hard to get them because they were so small and they were so valued for their sweet meat that we only ate them at Christmas.
i used to believe that that if you ate the whole of the apple including the pips that an apple tree would grow out of my head.
I used to believe that if I swallowed chewing gum, it would wrap around my heart and strangle me
I used to believe that chewing gum was bad for you because my Grandad told me that it was made out of the soles of Indians' bare feet!
(Native Americans')
p.s Like the ones on John Wayne films!
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the first time i swallowed a cherry pip i was really scared a cherry tree would grow out of my tummy.
i would never eat biscuits with currants in because someone told me they were flies.
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my dads brother told him that the top part of a boiled egg that you cut of was poisonous and wouldnt eat it for years.
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I also thought that meat balls were made from testicals
I used to believe that the inside part of the banana was posonous, but fortunately the outside part was the antidote, so as long as you ate the whole thing, you'd be fine. I was told this by a microbiologist when I was 9 and believed him utterly.
At christmas, we always make a little buffet with crackers and spreads and sarnies. Stuff like that. But my nan would never eat brussels pate. We thought she just didn't like it until the day came when she said "how can you eat a pate made from sprouts?"