food

My mum told me that crackers were made out of bad little boys and girls.. and that the darker crackers were made out of black children.

My stepfather told me that if I swallowed too large a lump of food, it would twist my voicebox so that I would never be able to swallow again and have to be fed with a tube.

when i was a kid i used to believe that if you swallowed watermelon seeds you would grow watermelons in your belly.

My brother (who, believe it or not is now a priest) told me that the tapioca in tapioca pudding was fish eyes! To this day, I still can't eat tapioca pudding because of that!

When my brother was little, he would refuse to eat oatmeal. Then my mom told him it was gruel - you know, what Oliver Twist eats and asks for more - and then he never refused it again, even after he found it it wasn't gruel!

I was told that when you eat Cinnaburst Gum, you can eat the wrapper and all.

I tried it, and found out otherwise...

Then I began trying this theory on other types of foods (ie: ice cream, candy bars, etc).

To this day I still wonder what I was thinking, and what the person who told me that was thinking.

My mother told me that Hershey chocolate bars were made at three mile island and that they were radioactive. This was just after the meltdown was in the news. A very effective method of curtailing my desire for the candy when we went to the store. Years later I asked her why she made up the story and she claimed that she never said it.

As a kid I used to love 'Sweetbreads'. It wasn't until I was in my twenties that I found out they were actually Lambs Testicles!!!

My Mum told me that Parsnips where the same as Bananas . Once they're peeled sliced and boiled/steamed they do look a bit like bananas ( Honest!!) except that they taste crap!

My mum always used to say that Cod's Roe was made from the "Willies" of little boys who kept playing with them.

When I was young my dad told me that chocolate milk came from brown cows... every time we would go on a trip he would point out the "chocolate cows!"
He also told me that strawberry milk came from pink cows.

When I was 5 my brother told me rice was made from Spiders eggs!

I used to wonder why "candy" would be so rude as to put holes in my teeth, when I really, really liked it.

I used to wonder why grown-ups like to eat food that is nasty. I never saw liver and onions served at any birthday party I went to.

I used to think it was okay to eat sunflower seeds--shell and all. Eventually my mom helped me link my stomach ache to "shell and all".

Someone told me that the red icing on 'Party Rings' was made from beetle's blood....I ate them anyway.