food

I used to believe…

When I was little I used to believe that food and water would go to separate stomachs because people would always cough and say "went down the wrong pipe" whenever they kinda choke out their food.

I used to believe…

When I was little I believed that if you ate any type of seed that a real plant would grow in my stomach and eventually kill me. I never ate seeds until I was in middle school.

I was ten before my parents were able to convince me that the restaurants did not, in fact, take the food that people did not finish and serve it to other patrons. Why the hell were all the old people pointing at the bread basket and saying "See? That's how they get ya! They get ya to fill up on bread so you can't finish ya meal!" What was I supposed to think they were doing with unfinished food?

I used to believe…

Wen I was little my mom told me that if I swallowed a watermelon seed a watermelon would grow inside of me. I then proceeded to not drink water so I wouldn't water the seed and worry about a watermelon growing in me.

I used to believe that if I ate apple seeds an apple tree would grow in my stomach and come out of my mouth and ears.

I used to believe that barbeque sauce was made from a cows butt because my friend had told me in lunch when were in first grade thanks bff.

I used to believe tiger tail ice cream was made of real tigers, and would never eat it because of that.

I used to believe…

When I was little, I thought chocolate mousse, was chocolate mouse. I remember the first time I ordered it I told my mom I wanted the head, because I didn't think mouse tail would taste good even when covered in chocolate.

I used to think that the chocolate/vanilla/strawberry mix ice cream was called Napoleon (instead of neopolitan) and couldn't understand why a French emperor got an ice cream flavor named after him.

I used to believe that pepper created actual heat.
so one day when I didn't want to go to school, I ate about 2 tablespoons of pure ground black pepper, and told my mom I was sick and to take my temperature.

She told me as red as my face was, my temperature was fine.

I used to believe that small amounts of soy sauce would be the best food you have ever tasted, but that if you ate too much it would kill you.

I used to believe…

My mom is full Chinese, so growing up in an Asian household, I used to believe that rice always came from a rice cooker. I was shocked when I ate dinner at a friend's house, and their rice was cooked in a pot on the stove.

I thought the little push indicators on the top of a fountain drink lid actually changed the flavors of the drink when u pushed them; I would never push the diet one.

I used to believe…

When I was 5 my parents told me soy sauce came from kids in china squeezing grass hopper blood into the bottles .... I believed it well into my teens where I argued with a friend about how I was right!! Later googled it ... They lied! Also found out cotton candy is not made of spider webs!

I used to believe…

When i was about 4 my mom always told me not to sleep with gum in my mouth,and if i did it would get in my hair. Well i had always thought that your body would automatically make the gum go to your head and get stuck in your hair! I thoought this until i was 10.

I used to think that animals used to grow meat that could be cut from them without killing them, just like you pick an apple from a tree without seriously harming it.