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I used to believe…

since my mother has an accent I used to believe that "boiled eggs" were actually "bald eggs". It made complete sense to me because the egg, once boiled, looked bald!

I used to believe…

When I was 7 my dad told me that since the frozen dinner's said "Let stand 2-3 minutes.", I had to stand in a corner and wait 2-3 minutes every time I made myself a Kid Cuisine.

I used to believe…

When i was a kid, i thought that beans were little potatoes.

I used to believe…

When I was younger my dad had me convinced that if I ate the crust of bread it would make my hair curly.

I used to believe…

When I was eating any fruit, I was told by my parents I should never swallow the seeds or a tree would grow inside me and the branches would come out of my ears.

Then I found out that the appendix might get blocked by ingesting seeds and other hard to digest things.

I used to believe…

When I was little, my sister told me that watermellons were elephant eggs. I waited for two months for a baby elephant to hatch out of the watermelon in the kitchen.

I used to believe…

When me and my sibling were little we would sometimes go out to eat at burger king. My brother being used to the buns at McDonald's (No sesame seeds) refused to eat burger king burgers (Sesame seeds on bun) because they had bugs on them

I used to believe…

My big sister insisted that cinnamon (sugar) and pepper were the same thing. I tried some pepper and spit it out. Then she convinced me that it tasted differently on different parts of the tongue. Thoughout my childhood I always moved pepper around in my mouth trying to get it to taste like cinnamon.

I used to believe…

My Father used to tell me that if I wanted to grow hair on my chest (like a man); I had to eat lots of Vegemite (Aussie sandwich spread). I had at least one Vegemite Sandwich EVERY DAY; until I was nearly 12 years old.

I used to believe…

Since day one, my grandmother had me believing that the black and white cows made plain milk, the brown cows made chocolate milk, and the reddish cows made strawberry milk. It wasn't until I brought It up at the dinner table at age THIRTEEN, did I know that that is completely false.

I used to believe…

While my uncle was preparing fish that he caught earlier that day, i saw the fish guts, and knew, that it was a dangerous creature that lived inside the fish, and would leap at my face if i got to close.

I used to believe…

When i was little there used to be an advert where a man rolled up some snow and turned it into a chocolate mint cream to give to his girlfriend. I was convinced that was how they were made & for the next couple of years, every time it snowed i used to try & make them! I was SO frustrated that i just couldn't get it right. Deary me!

I used to believe that dried cylindrical hay bails in fields was where shredded wheat came from and the frosted kind happened when the cows dropped milk on them.

I used to believe…

When I was around 8 or 9 years old, I went over a friend's house and I saw that there were tons of cans laying around her back yard by the BBQ pit. They were Red Bull cans, but I thought they were beer cans because they looked a lot like what my parents and their friends drink. When I asked my friend about them, she told me her dad drinks at least five a day. After that I was a little scared to go over her house when her dad was home because I thought he was an alcoholic!

I used to think that when something was made from scratch, scratch was a magical sort of playdoughy substance that could be morphed into any shape, taste, or color. But I could not ever find where the scratch in my house was kept.

I used to believe…

When I was a child, for whatever reason, my parents told me that it was the city law to eat meatloaf for dinner every Friday. So I continually believed this until I was 12.