My mother told me chewing gum was made from horses hooves!
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I used to think Au Gratin Potatos were Hog Rotten Potatos. Still won't eat them!!!!
My friends all told me that eating bread crust made your hearing better, and by not eating it I was going to go deaf. The funniest part of it all is that my hearing is so good now, I always get in fights with these friends that the movies they watch are on too loud.
When I was an 8 year old boy, my mom used to tell me that if I ate the fatty part of my steak that I would grow breasts (I loved eating the fat, so I assume she was trying to scare me away from it). I thought the undigested piece of fat would travel right to the breast and get deposited under the skin. I was scared off for a while...I'm 28 now and I still eat the fat. No breasts yet....
My nan used to tell me that if you swallow seeds, they will grow inside you. I remember once swallowing an apple seed and freaking out because I was convinced I would have a tree growing out of my mouth in the morning.
She used to also tell me that is I wore my socks in bed, I would get warts all over my feet.
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mother always said when we were young that if we don't finish our dinner, that the angels would cry, and i really did believe that
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My brother was convinced that the people who made Mounds and Almond Joy also made a "Spunow" bar, due to him reading a Mounds label upside-down
I used to believe that the sausage in the hot dogs were actual dogs that were cooked then chopped into sausage shapes!
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I used to believe that if you ate eggs for breakfast everyday you'd get pregnant...
Grandma told me if I ate while standing up that I would get fat thighs. She was right! She also said that if I ate toothpaste I would go blind and lose my hair. She was only partially right with that one.
I believed for the longest time, that if you swallowed chewing gum it would stick to your insides.
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I used to believe that milk was cow's urine. That, however, still didn't stop me from enjoying it, but it made me uderstand when other people didn't.
When I was very little, I used to believe that bacon came from the tail of a pig because it was curly!!
My grandma used to tell me that if I ate raw sugar I'd get worms in my stomach. My older cousin who I looked up to, even agreed with her.. so I think she got the same story when she was my age.
I guess I didn't care very much, because in order for me to stop eating the sugar, they switched the sugar and salt jars on me. Bleh.. I don't think I've ever eatten raw sugar since. XP
When I was a kid I was a dinosaur-finatic. My parents used to call chicken legs "dinosaur legs" for me to eat them.
When I was in nursery school, a girl told me Jello shook because there was turtle inside. I believed her. I knew that it was illogcal but why would she lie to me? I spent two years in nursery school trying to see the turtle. I never saw one. I still check occasionally-- why would a female lie to me?
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My Dad told me that Lamb was man made in a factory, 'cos I wouldn't eat it if I knew it had ben running around in a field.
I believed this for 3 years.
When I was a kid and my mom wanted me to eat something I didn't like, she would say "It'll put hair on your chest." As if that's such an attractive quality for a girl! Of course, it's taken me nearly 30 years to finally eat some of the things she wanted me to eat!
I used to believe,that pickles were made from frogs backs.Both green and both bumpy...Also used to believe that root beer was made from cat tails(the weed in swamps)..
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of course my well meaning parents told me that swallowing chewing gum would make it stick to the insides of my tummy and i wouldn't poo properly. so i stuck it behind my ear one day for later (saw it on tv)- my best friends mum ended up chopping out a HUGE chunk of my 'crowning glory' and we all had to keep it from mum cos i wasn't supposed to chew gum. i think i cried