food

My mum told me that cold custard (which I hated) was in fact Banana Blancmange. I lapped it up for years.

I used to believe, thanks to my older sister, that spaghetti was worms with their blood drained out, to make the sauce. For years I wouldn’t eat spaghetti, and even now I don’t like tomato sauce.

I used to believe that mincemeat was mouse meat. I still tell the kids at Thanksgiving that mince meat pie is really mouse meat...some of the adults even look at me and THEY almost belive it too.

My sister told me that the little nuts in the Big Boogie candy bar were boogers.

My Dad assured me that UHT Long Life milk came from elephants...
He also told me wholegrain mustard was snakes' poo, and roll mops were snakes' skins.
Brussel sprouts actually are Action Man cabbages tho - that one is true.

In pre-school and kindergarten, it was common knowledge that if you swallowed your gum, it would take 7 years to digest. Nobody would do it because we figured we'd run out of room for food after a while. Years later, people began to question it, but really no one was sure. I don't think I quit believing that until the middle of high school.

My brother hated the seeds in green peppers. So, to make sure I didn't let any seeds make there way into a salad, he told me they were poisonous and that eating even one would kill you. Sadly, I very cautiously removed all seeds from green peppers until I was about 12!

I used to eat my meals more slowly than my brothers and cousins so they would all be out playing while i was stuck at the table until i finished eating. I would rather be out playing of course, so i would tell my mom that i was full and that she had given me too much food. She would then tell me to open my mouth as wide as i could and then make a big show of looking down my throat and inspecting the inside of my stomach. She'd say, "I see plenty of room down there." I believed her and grudgingly finished eating before i went out to play.

I couldn't believe it when my father told me that eggs were baby chickens. I was so horrified that I actually hallucinated while watching him calmly continue eating scrambled eggs, and saw a fluffy chick pop up on his fork right before he put it into his mouth. "NOOOooo!" I cried. He looked annoyed. I firmly believed that this had actually happened until I was about 13, at which point my "scientific" explanations for the phenomena were wearing pretty thin.

WHEN I WAS SMALL I WOULD NOT EAT CHICKEN SOUP BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS THE COLOR YELLOW BECAUSE IT WAS CHICKEN PEE

I used to belive that hamburgers were infact called "handburgers" because you ate them out of your hand :D

my dad used to tell me that the meat park of a steak was poisonus for children under the age of 10 to eat and he had to eat that whilst we had to eat the less dangerous white parts i.e. the fat!

When I was about 12 years old my friend's mum told me that if I ate bread crusts my breasts would grow bigger. It didn't work, and so I still don't eat them.

My grandmother used to tell my mother not to swallow her gum. She said that the body couldn't digest the gum and that it would just stick to her colon for her whole life. My mom says that she used to picture this tube covered in gum and worried that it would get clogged.

Anyone remember the old "Cookeen" lard ads? I firmly used to believe that if I ate some of this I could actually float. I had all these great fantasies about what I could do if I ate enough of the stuff. I pestered my mum for ages to buy some and couldn't understand why she wouldn't!

My mate Fawce used to go to his Grans for tea, but the milk always tasted funny to him (it was that stuff from a tin). His Dad told him it was Bull's milk and he believed it and always asked his Gran for Bull's milk in his tea, until he was about 18 and he told the story in the pub - he then realised that bull's milk could be also called sperm.