food

I used to believe…

when i was young i thought if you eat a seed a tree will grow in your stomach.

I used to believe…

When I was little my dad told me that they used those little red spiders to make the red Smarties red. I didn't eat any red Smarties cuz I didn't want to eat bugs.

I was about 3 years old and asked my mum one day "are chips a type of fish". She wasn't listening to me and just said yes. I went for ages believing that chips swam around in the sea.

I used to believe…

When I was little my favorite thing to eat was hotdogs. My mother didn't like them. She told me they were made out of kangaroos. They were no longer my favorite food.

I used to believe…

One day I was eating spaghetti when all of the sudden, i started sniffling and my eyes got very watery. I pushed my food around my plate and did not want to eat it because I was afraid that the spaghetti had once been alive and was now in pain when I ate it. I was hungry so in the end, I ended up crying harder as I ate my food and I apologized to the spaghetti after each bite and asked it to forgive me. T_T

I used to believe…

When I was little I believed that if I didn't eat all of my scrambled eggs that the "Big Chicken" would come to claim his wasted progeny *shudders*

I used to believe…

Folger's catch phrase was, " the best part of waking up, is Folgers in your cup" and I always thought they were saying, " the best part of waking up is SOLDIERS in your cup" so every time my dad was making coffee and not looking I would stick my hand in the canister and search for toy soldiers.

I used to believe…

when i was younger i thought that the mcdonalds drive through ordering boxes actually had someone squished inside when you were putting through your order. once, when i was in the back seat and the guy asked "would you like fries with that?" i yelled out "are you ok in there? do you get to have a stretch a now and again?"

I used to believe…

When I was 4, my mom told me not to eat in bed because then we would get ants from the crumbs. I thought crumbs were really ant eggs and that all the food we ate was made of ant eggs.

I used to believe that chalks are edible. When my teacher writes with the chalk I always imagined how good the chalk tastes. i believed that til I tasted one. It wasn't how I imagined it to be.

I used to believe…

When I was growing up, my grandmother drilled the idea into my head that if I didn't rinse off the lid of a can of pop, I would get rat urine in my mouth and fall over dead.

I used to believe…

my mom told my sister and I that if you swallow gum, it won't leave ur stomach for 7 years.

I used to believe…

My mum always used to give me Vitamin C tablets in the morning, but whenever she said it to me, I thought she was saying 'Vitamin SEED tablets', and I thought the tablets were made of loads of really tiny seeds that made little vitamin trees grow inside your body.

I used to think doner kebabs were called that because the animals donated their meat for it

I used to believe…

When I was about four, I saw a fat man. I thought he was pregnant. I told my mother and she told me he just swallowed a watermelon seed. Now I've gotten myself into the habit of meticulously picking out the black watermelon seeds before I eat a watermelon slice.

I used to believe…

When I was little, I didn't like bread crusts until my mom told me eating them would make you whistle. I thought this until I was 12...and I still can't whistle.