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I used to believe a cornucopia was corn on the cob with many other vegetables around it, because I misheard "horn" as "corn" when I was learning what it was, and I think the name didn't help, either.

corn of plenty?

I used to believe that broccoli grew on trees. It looks like a tree, so it made sense, right?

Catherine...

I used to believe that all the soup in the world was made by soup dragons and harvested in a cave, like the Clangers

Anon

My brother used to believe that you can't eat veggies because they have bugs in it!!! He saw a bug eating spinach and the supermarket and got freaked out so much that he called for the nearest employee to whack the bug with the leek he had in his hand! He was 4 at that time!

Harry Potter

My brother used to think that olives came from two different kinds of tree: one that make "normal" olives and one that make olives already rattled off

Giuly

I used to believe that all fruits were vegetables, and vice versa.

Anon

I used to think that freckles were bug poop, and i would cover my face in the blankets while i slept to prevent freckles.

D

I used to think that broccoli was a shrunken-down tree,

Anon

My mom told me that cannoli had earwax in it, so i wouldn't eat all the cannoli when we ate out. This backfired when my brother asked the waiter why there is earwax in cannoli. The waiter said there is no earwax in it and my mom was trying to scare us into not eating it. Then my brother threw canolli at her face and we started eating lots of it.

Anon

I thought if you could get arrested if you sneezed on a restaurant employee. So when I sneezed on an employee at mcdonalds, I started screaming that I didn't want to get want to get arrested for sneezing and I started hiding under the table so I wouldn't get in trouble

-Marie

I used to think if I eat a seed from an orange, an orange tree will grow in me. Ahh

Amira

I used to believe that if you swallowed a seed, it would grow inside of you

Adelaide

I used to think that spaghetti had poison in it that could only affect little kids. My mom told me this so she could eat it all herself. I believed it for many years.

Lucy

Eating potatoes with skins on puts hair on your chest

Muddinyori

That baked beans were made of pasta! Spaghetti is?!

Anon

I used to call calamari, cala dari

Anon

Random little tidbit as i'm eating my fav type of pudding over here...it's tapioca--i'm really a sucker for anything vanilla flavored, but anyway--different tangent, haha...my Grandpa Jones, back when i was a kid, told me once that the tapioca pearls were frog eggs...i remember how blown my mind was that i was eating them...To this day, anytime i eat tapioca pudding I think of the nostalgia tied to it...Oh memories [3!

Angela King

Up until I was about 15, I thought that the spoons that came with McDonald's Mcflurry's were straws. Needless to say, I was frustrated when, time after time, I couldn't get any ice cream to go up the straw.

Jessica

When I was child, I used to believe if I didn't eat soup, I would never grow up

Anon