food

I used to believe…

that chocolate milk came from black cows

My parents told me not to drink out of the milk container because I'd get germs in it and then people could get sick when they drank the milk. So one time I was drinking a glass of milk and my dad drank the rest of the milk out of the carton to finish it off. I thought I was going to get sick because I was drinking the milk that came out of that carton!

My best friend's mother always told us not to swallow the watermelon seeds or you'll have a watermelon growing on the top of your head. What a scary image that was for us!

When I asked why he did eat the crust on his sandwich, my 7-year old nephew informed me it was because it made his hair curly. (He has extremely curly blond hair, which he hates but is the envy of every woman he meets!)

when my dad would cook breakfast for me, he would give me burnt toast and tell me that i had to eat it so that i would get tan like him (he is of mediterranean descent but, apparently, the olive skin gene didn't get transmitted to me). i wanted to be just like him, so i dutifully ate whatever burnt toast he gave me...and started eating burnt toast on my own. it didn't work (i'm still pasty white) and it was only years later that i realized that my dad couldn't cook and just said that so i would eat the things that he burnt!

Heh, when I was really young I hated mustard sauce, so everytime it came in a fast food sandwich my mom would tell me it was "yellow ketchup" - you know, just so she didn't have to order one without it. Reasonable enough, since you can't even taste it. Still, I believed it until I was about 13 or so.

For some reason I always check underneath everything I eat, I don't know why but I always claimed that food was hiding something. People used to laugh, until the day I found string in my salad, they were soon eating their words!!!!

My granny used to tell me that eating crusts put hair on your chest so obviously I didn't eat them and still don't to this day. Now thats embarrasing when someone asks why you don't eat them!!

i used to belive that if you swallowed bubble gum it would be stuck inside you forever. i always refused gum or spat it out quickly once i was done chewing it until i was 9.

When I was little I was eating an apple when my mother asked if I had washed it, I replied no and she went completely nuts yelling DON'T YOU KNOW THE WASH APPLES WITH INSECT POO! For years afterwards I was fanatic about washing fruit. When i was 18 I was telling my boyfriend off for not washing his apple because of the insect poo polishing on the outside, everyone laughed at my stupidity. When I yelled at mum later she denied all knowledge of ever saying they used insect poo as polish!!!

My Dad used to tell me that if I didn't eat my beans I would never grow. One day we were shopping and my Dad ran into an old friend of his and introduced his wife. The wife was very, very short. I piped up and said, "She didn't eat her beans, did she daddy?"

I thought that if you swallowed water melon seeds, all you had to do was eat some sand and have a drink and grow more watermelon's in your stomach - didn't think about how they'd get out...

This was something I made my boyfriend's little cousin believe. We were on holidays in a caravan park and we had gone to get some hot chips whilst the 'little' kids weren't looking so we didn't have to share them. When we got home, we were sprung by Scotty. He asked us where we got the chips from and I told him there was a chip tree outside. Meanwhile, my boyfriend had gone outside and strategically placed some chips around this tree. Scotty raced out, all excited and came back with all these chips. He believed chips came from trees for years to come and we still give him grief about it.

I used to believe that salt was sprinkled onto food too cool it if it was too hot. I believed this until I was about 15.

All growing up, whenever we had Tapioca pudding, my mother told everyone who had any that the tapioca were actually fish-eyes...this kept my next-door neighbor from ever eating Tapioca pudding...of course, I thought it was cool!

this is my sisters belief. my cousin told her the homemade icecream was crunchy because she used cockroaches to make it and she still wont eat my cousins homemade icecream.