general

I used to believe that the UL symbol on boxes of lightbulbs meant that they were kosher. I obviously had no idea what kosher meant, and the UL must have looked a bit too much like the "circle U" symbol I'd seen on other items in the grocery store.

Kristin

My grandad had a cockateil and one day we'd gone there for tea. I was about 13 at the time. My mum was talking about sunflower seeds and what they tasted like, so curiosity got the better of me and I took one out of the bird's seed and ate it. Immediately after my parents told me very seriously that I'd turn into a cockateil! I didn't believe them at that moment and shrugged it off.. however, that night when I got home, I was drinking some water from a mug and happened to look at the reflection in the bottom of it. I could see I was forming a beak and my eyes were on the side of my head like a bird. I screamed and dropped the mug and started crying. My alarmed mum asked me what on earth was wrong - I told her and she told me not to be ridiculous and that she was just joking about me turning into a bird. I had to reassure myself by looking in the mirror..

Thankfully, to this day - I'm pretty sure I'm still human.. however, I'm still expecting the day I morph into a bird!

Laura

My sister thought a fruit machine (the gaming device) could turn one item of fruit into another.

Richard Davies

I used to think that rice grains were little pieces of pasta, rather than naturally forming grains.

Richard Davies

When I was little, I believed marshmallows grew on trees. So everytime we'd go to the grocery store, I would beg for a bag of the small ones (my "seeds") and run home and plant them. They never grew :(

Catherine

My great grandma used to make homemade bread. She used to tell us that if you ate the raw dough ( ew but when your a kid you try anything) it would expand till your stomach exploded!

Anon

I used to believe that burritos were animals, so when we had burritos for lunch at my school, I'd cut it with a fork and show my meat sauce covered fork to the other boys and go "YAAAAAAAAH!!! DISEMBOWELMENT!!!" And they'd freak out.

Dr. Burritoman

when i was little my mom used to tell me if you eat food before you go to sleep you will have nighmares

michelle

my grandma used to tell me that butter was fat so i thought it was literally fat(lard). didnt believe it was made from milk til like 7th grade.

keippi

when I was around 4 -5 I once asked my mum how she knew when boiled eggs where cooked and she told me the eggs shout "get me out get me out im done" but you had to be a grown up to hear them,and for years I used to listen see if I Could hear them! she obviously knew when I got old enough to hear them Id know she lied :)

Catherine

That everything was made out of food, depending on the color. I believed, for instance, that diapers were made out of milk.

Jeanette

When I was 8 my brother told me that nutella was produced by a married couple. The man called Nut and the woman called Ella. Foolishly enough, I believed everything my brother told me! Soon enough my friends informed me that I was wrong...lol

Anon

I used to believe that there were little men who worked in the bucket out the front of KFC. It was their job to cook the chicken and send it down the pipes into the restaurante.

Bethany

i used to think honey came from smashed up bees

Sabrina

I was always puzzled by jars of jam that said "extra jam" on the label. I thought it meant that there was more jam in the jar than there would be otherwise. Either it was a slightly bigger jar containing a little bit extra for free, like they often do, or they had managed to fit more into a normal sized jar.

Alan, Sheffield

when i was about 7 years old my dad took us for some food to long john silvers. which was odd because we never ate there. he said they had come out with something new. so i went along,never asking what it was. as my father and sister arrived up to the counter, my dad said he wanted an order of butterfly shrimp. well after i heard that i started screaming and crying. thinking it was actually real butterflies.my dad tried to calm me down as my sister and him looked so embarrassed. i think i may have even called my dad a murderer. well i was crying and crying and my dad couldn't calm me down so he just left me alone and sat down and stated eating them, and as he was eating them i cried more and more. i didnt understand for a couple years what actually butterfly shrimp were.

brigitte

i used to beleive cotton balls were marshmellows

carly