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My mun told me that if I ate my breadcrusts I would be able to whistle.
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I used to believe that Ready-Brek would make you glow, like it did on the TV ad. It tasted HORRIBLE, but I persevered for most of my 6th year.
When I was young my mum forbade me to eat blue m&m's 'cause she believed they gave people cancer.. to this day i've never eaten one
I used to be believe that white sugar was made from ground up bones
We had a cat named Staccato when I was very young, and since I couldn't pronounce Staccato I called her Taco. When I started school, we were having cafeteria food and in line I was told we were having Tacos. I cried and cried and refused to eat. I thought everyone was eating my cat.
There was a popular rumor back in grade school that BUBBLE YUM gum was made with spider eggs.
All children my age used to believe that if you ate POP ROCKS and drank a soda, your stomach would explode!
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My dad told me long macaroni grew on bushes and that spagetti was the thing left when you drilled the whole in the macaroni
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My friend when aged 5 was told at a drinks party to pass round a bowl of 'penis' to other guests by her older brother. They were in fact peanuts.
At the age of four I decided that I wanted to be a vegetarian, so my parents told me that all meat came from animals that died of natural causes. I was also told that liver was a vegetable and that it was only called liver because it resembled the organ in question. I believed this until I was about ten...
My parents used to tell me that eating all my dinner would make me big and strong, and that when you go to the toilet, your body automatically does away with anything that's bad for you. I ate more than anyone else and now I'm a fat biffer.
A little girl down the road told me that kale (a green leafy vegetable, kind of like spinach) was really cow butt. I wouldn't eat it forever.
Dark brown Smarties were poisonous.
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We were told at school by the evil dinner ladies that apple pips contained arsenic.....
My mum told me that if you ate fruit pips they were stored in your appendix, and that if you ate too many you would get appendicitis. She also told me the one about chewing gum wrapping round your heart if you swallowed it. It's a wonder I ate anything when I was small.
I had my sister convinced that SPAM meant 'Squashed Pig and Moggy'. She refused to eat spam for a good 5 years claiming that it contained cat. Curiously, she never told my parents the reason why she refused to eat it.
A wally really is a name for a pickled gherkin! That girl wasn't lying and is indeed wiser than you!!
I used to believe that drinking lager gave you a moustache. This came about when I saw 2 pics of my dad. In the first he had a pint glass to his mouth and in the second he'd put it down and was smiling drunkenly at the camera. He had a small moustache in the photos, but at the time I saw them he was clean shaven, hence my belief that the drinking of the lager (where I couldn't see the moustache) gave him the moustache in the second photo.
My brother told me that if you eat the white bits of pith left when you peel oranges and satsumas, you will die. Even now, it takes me ages to eat an orange as I have to be sure there are no killer white bits.
I used to believe that milk was cow pee