food

I used to think kidney beans were rock hard and strong tasting, so I used to eat around them when I ate chilli con carne.

I used to think that chops(maybe you call it "porksteak"?)were grown in fidleds like famers grow cereal.Because the bones seems somewhat made of wood,and the edge of it is quite trimed. But I wondered why it was so different from others, and i wished to inspect how did they plant such delicious thing.

on chewing gum,

I think it was a thing in our hometown because not only my brother and family, but all my friends parents said the same thing. It takes 7 years to digest gum. It just slows everything down in your system and you will become deathly ill. I think I actually believed this until I was graduated.

my older sister told me that if you accidentally swallowed chewing gum it wandered around inside you and could get tangled all round your ribs and suffocate you. I still don't chew gum!

My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!

When I was in secondary school studying home economics ("food technology" to more 'modern day' students or just plain 'cookery' to older ones), we had to prepare a full breakfast. I got the mistaken belief that I somehow invented hot buttered toast.

Well, I had never seen it before and therefore it was a 'new invention' for a 12 year old... But I am *so* glad now that I didn't actually reveal it to anyone...

Every kid in my neighborhood knew for a FACT that if you ate fizzy pop-rocks, and then drank a coke, that your stomach would explode. And of course, everyone also said that it happened to someone at their school.

I used to believe that when I ate a bowl of cereal that had a commercial i had seen, whatever happen in the commercial would happen to me. Like Fruity Loops, i thought a jungle would appear all around me and I would meet tucan sam.

I used to believe that eating raw cookie dough would give you worms. It wasn't until I had my first child and was baking cookies myself, when I found out the truth. I repeated the tale to him and my mother said I cant believe you are using that one too. Boy did I feel stupid.

My brother had told me when I was little that lima beans were really small kidneys from small people. Whenever my mom served them, I would pick them out and line them up along the edge of my plate.

my mom always said if you fell asleep with gum in your mouth it would end up in your hair!
I thought you would swallow it during the night & it would seep out into your hair thru your scalp.

To get me to eat my tomato soup, my mom told me it was "Porky Pig Soup", since she made it with milk and it was kind of pink. Since I loved the color pink and Porky Pig, I ate it up!!

I used to think that the white part of an orange rind was poisonous, so I would try to get every bit off before I ate the orange. Imagine my horror the first time I read a recipe that called for grated orange peel!

my friends and i believed that eating peanut butter and mayonnaise together would poison you.
i also believed that the dark colored (burnt) potato chips gave you cancer, and that was what killed my great grandmother.

When I was 4, my favorite food was fried scallops. One day, my mother brought fried scallop dinners home for supper. My 5 year old cousin was staying over, and we were splitting a dinner. About 1/2 way through, he whispered to me that scallops were fish cheeks. I believed him, and was so grossed out I stopped eating them for years.

I don't remember how I came to find out that they weren't fish cheeks, but when I did I asked my cousin about it. He said he just wanted the rest of them from the dinner!

My mom told me that if I ate raw hotdogs or spoonfuls of sugar, I'd get worms. I believed her until I was 13.