When looking after me and my sisters for the afternoon, my uncle told my little sister that the sultanas in the teacakes he had toasted for us were burnt bits. To this day she won't eat anything with currants, raisins or sultanas in it, and she's 24 now!
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When my brother was young I told him if he ate the hole around the doughnut he would die.
To this day, he's 34 now, he leaves a small round crust so that he doesn't eat the hole =)
A baby-sitter once told me that peanutbutter really was baby-shit. I never ate peanutbutter again.
My sister and brother in law don't like Salt and Vinegar flavour crisps, so they told their son (my nephew) that they are "special crisps" just for him, and he eats them, leaving his parents to eat the nicer ones like Cheese and Onion.
my mum used to tell me that if I was to swallow chewing gum, it would wrap around the insides of my stomach and I would choke.
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My brother told me that the jelly in pork pies/tinned meat was made from cow spit. To this day I still gag when I think about eating the stuff.
My mum told me that if you put too much concentrate in the glass for orange squash then I would get worms. Funnily enough i drink weak squash, and get laughed at by my friends.
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the neighbor girl i grew up with told me that "cheese makes you concentrate." (i *think* she meant constipate...)
I once told a childhood friend that if he swallowed the seeds from a watermelon they would grow thruought his body. He never ate watermelons ever agian!
My Grandfather told me that oysters were in fact old fisherman's spit. What it was that when they were fishing they use to spit over the side of their boat, it sank to the bottom and fell into shells. I didn't like them until I was about 18 years old.
I was a very inquisitive child. When my older sister was pregnant she told me it was because of watermelons. I was like WHY?! She explained on how when you eat the seeds they go into your belly and it grows & grows and then out comes a baby. I was like HOW?! She told me that it was like real watermelon. The baby comes out attached to this vine and the outside stays inside for other babies to grow in the next time she ate the seeds of a watermelon. Needless to say I was scared of watermelon for years! And to this day I don't eat watermelon seeds & of course discovered the 'reality of reproduction' when I was much older.
One of the dinner ladies at our school had the tips of her fingers missing and were therefore deformed. Rumour had it that school dinner sausages were 'Fingerella's' fingers. Also we wouldn't eat the tinned tomatoes as we thought they were peeled testicles.
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I used to believe that red pistachio shells were the same as women's press on nails.
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i believed that the holes in swiss cheese were cow farts.
i always said that i hated fish, until my nmum told me the truth when i was nine. those 'special chicken' sandwiches i loved so much were in fact tuna mayonnaise
i was convinced chips were made of meat (probably because of the taste when they were cooked in dripping) ... my world fell apart when aged about 5 i saw the potatoes being cut ...
p.s. monica beetroot can turn your wee pink ...
Remember the advert for Special K ?
It had the tag line "For grown up people who don't want to grow any more."
My Mum offered me a bowl once. I freaked out. I thought I would stop growing if I ate it.
When I moved up to middle school from juniors, I was reliably informed by the older kids that the Cornish pasties served in the dinner hall were filled with dog food. I never tried one until I was about 20.
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My mum told my brother that beetroot turned your wee pink. To this day he still won't eat it
My Dad convinced me that if you fed more than three slices of bread to a duck it would drown :(