I used to think a brothel was another word for a soup kitchen.
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Up until I was about seven, I thought soda pop was alcoholic and that's why kids weren't allowed it.
I used to believe that it was quite possible to make it start pouring rain outside by spilling salt on the ground like the girl on the Morton salt package. I never tried it because I didn't want it to rain!
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When my mom gave me my daily Flintstone chewable vitamin, I thought it was important that I get a different character each day, otherwise I wouldn't be getting all of my vitamins.
I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.
I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.
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if you drank coffee before your 16th birthday, your skin will turn purple.
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When my (twin) sister and I were like 5, we went to a day camp where they had us make cookies out of playdough and put them in the oven. While we were eating snack they’d switch them for matching real cookies and bam - magic! My sister really wanted to try this at home so Mom entrusted me with the secret of the magic playdough cookies. I got to help her make the real cookies and pull off the switcheroo, and I considered it of the utmost importance that my sister never find out the secret. Well a few years passed and she still believed it - she was reminiscing and I couldn’t stand taking part in this insidious lie anymore. I took her aside and broke the news. She was furious.
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I used to believe that black olives were made out of whale skin.
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When I was a child, I used to believe , that supermarket products didn't have a provenance,the things just appear out of nowhere.
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When I was little I used to think that when we ate a piece of fruit and the seed of the fruit, a tree would grow in our stomach
I'm 18 now, but until about 2 years ago I thought pavlova and palaver were the same word... I didn't realise one was a dessert!
I used to believe that people who were lactose intolerant could not consume ANY dairy products AT ALL.
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I used to believe that coffee was toxic to little kids, and that if you drank it before you were 16, you would die
I used to believe…
Banana seeds are spiders eggs
I used to believe milk came in all colors of the rainbow
I used to believe that Welsh Rarebit was made out of rabbits
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I used to think that a rare steak meant that it was hard to find. I thought there was common steak, medium rare, and really rare.
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(This one isn't even from childhood, I was about 17 for this...) There's a doughnut shop I go to which sells "sour cream doughnuts" - that is, doughnuts with a little sour cream added to the batter to make it thicker. But apparently no one ever explained this to me; because at some point, after years of frequenting that doughnut shop, I had roughly this conversation with my mom:
ME: Oh no - I think they put sour cream doughnut holes in with the rest of ours!
MOM: So just don't eat them.
ME: But...they're all in the same box. Won't the sour cream rub off on the others?
MOM: ...
That's right - I'd been seeing those doughnuts in the display case and assuming that the standard white sugar glaze on them was, in fact, a light coating of sour cream. For years. I never questioned the idea that people would actually want to eat something like that - I've always been a picky eater, so I just assumed it was one of those food things I didn't "get".
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I used to think shell macaroni was sea shells.