food

Quaker Oats Porridge had a picture of a quaker on the packaging. He wore a large white cravat-type thing around his neck.

Because it appeared to emerge from underneath his chin and was the same colour as the product in the packaging, I assumed it was a torrent of semi-digested porridge which poured out of a hole in his face.

When I was little my mom told me not to swallow watermelon seeds or I would grow a watermelon in my belly - for years when I would see a pregnant woman I believed she had swallowed the seds!

When I was young my mom always told me that if I ate the pips from fruit that fruit would actually grow out of my ears. I actually believed her that I used to pick all the pips out of my fruit before I ate them.

When i was wee my brother told me if i swallowed chuggy, when i went to the toilet i would blow a big bubble out of my bum float out over the neighbourhood and all my fiends would laugh - believe i did not laugh!!! Bearing in mind that my brother also made drink his urine mixed with "no more tears" shampoo, i sometimes wonder what he is doing today!!

Until I was 15 years old I believed sprinkling salt on hot food would cool it off enough to eat it. My father used to say "Whew! This is hot. Pass the salt, please." When I opted NOT to put salt in my tea to cool it off did my mother tell me the truth of the matter. Years later I found out ALL of my brothers and sisters thought the same thing. 

i belive when i was a child around 5ys. that one morning when my mom was cooking breakfast and i heard her pop a can of biscuits on the table that the pilsbury doughboy had to somwhere hidding in my house because i looked everywhere for him,needless to say i never found him! 

My brother and I used to believe (because our mom told us so) that Zoom cereal would make you run faster. We would run up and down the hallway and ask if we were any faster than before. 

When I was about 5 years old, my dad told me to be careful when chewing gum because if you swallowed it, it would get stuck to your stomack, and never come out. When I would accidently swallow my gum I would think to myself that I would have a belly full of gum by the time I was older.

I grew up on a small cattle ranch, and honestly believed that we got steaks from shearing cattle the same way the neighbors got wool from shearing their sheep. Imagine my father's surprise when I asked him at dinner "do cows shivered when you take their meat off?".

I had no idea they actually died before you could eat their beef!

I used to believe that the big Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket signs on the pole were filled with gravy and they would run a hose into the shop to fill up the gravy containers.
I thinks my big brother told me this once and of course his trusting little brother fell for it.

I had a uncle with a prosthetic leg that had black rubber toes. One day when I was small, about 7 or so, I saw this and, not knowing his leg was not a "real" leg asked him why his toes were black? He said it was from drinking coffee. I never picked up the habit of drinking coffee because I believed his story and I did not want my toes to turn black.

WHEN I WAS IN PRE-SCHOOL I WOULD START CRYING WHEN I SWALLOWED A SEED, CUZ I THOUGHT A PLANT WOULD START GROWING IN MY STOMACH, AND WHEN THE SPRPOUT GOT TO MY MOUTH IT WOULD BE SO BIG I'D NOT BE ABLE TO CLOSE MY MOUTH.

When I was about 5 I asked my Mum where sausages came from and she told me, from pigs. I then figured if eggs came from chickens, then sausages must come out of pigs bottoms. Yum yum.

Until I was at my first college, I more or less believed that you had to go to a restaurant to eat Chicken Fried Steak (steak patties fried in batter, then covered in gravy, for non-Texan) and also to eat Mexican food, even if Mother told me there were people who actually made both in their homes! When I was in college, I was invited over to a friend's place for dinner where he and his wife (then girlfriend) made chicken fried steak! I was so excited I called up Momma and told her. "They actually MAKE chicken fried steak?" she asked.

As a child I loved pepperoni. My dad told me that if I ate the skin on pepperoni my toes would turn red. I completely trusted he was telling me the truth and was very careful not to eat the skin.

Up until an embarassingly advanced age, I believed that pimentos came from inside olives, and I felt bad for the guy who had to take the pimento out of each olive to fill up those jars of pimentos we bought in the grocery store.