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wen i was younger,everyday,when we rode through pineapple fields and i would see little rays of sunlight going through the clouds i believed that those rays of light came from heaven to get the dead,rotten pineapples.....

pineapple girl

I read the story "Stone Soup" for the first time when I was five and didn't understand the trick that was played. I believed you could actually make soup out of just stone! I picked out a nice, potentially flavorful stone from our garden, asked for a bit of hot water and tried it for myself. It lacked the other ingredients, I thought.

Andrea

When I was a boy we had an old jar of cinnamon sugar Mom put out on the table whenever we had French toast for breakfast. I thought the jar had just lasted forever, so old the label was faded and peeling off, but I was seven or eight before I discovered that my mother regularly refilled it with cinnamon and sugar she mixed herself.

Anon

My little cousin recently asked me, "Cinnamon? (pronounced sin-a-mawn) Is that a kind of Pokémon?"

Randy

When you go to the store, you know how to check to see if fruits and vegetables are ripe. Well, my brother (I know, it's not about me) used to believe that an egg, if left on a shelf long enough, could eventually hatch into a chicken. It was not until much later in his life, actually, that he discovered that store-bought eggs could not hatch because they were un-fertilized. All that time, he was afraid he might actually see a beak when cracking an egg open.

Jason L.

When I learned that raisins were dried up grapes, I thought that I could reverse the process, so I put a raisin in a cup of water and waited for it to grow back into a grape.

Molly

When I was young I believed, for some strange reason, that only apples my mom ate turned brown. I thought she had something in her mouth that turned them brown. One year we left out some fruit for Santa and in the morning the half-eaten apple was, of course, brown. I was convinced my mom was playing Santa. She somehow convinced me that she had only eaten the apple after Santa didn't want it.:O)

Jennifer

When I was younger, my father told me that spaghetti grew on trees, and that the macaroni grew around the spaghetti like some kind of wrapping. I also thought that all the tall people ate spaghetti when they were kids and that the small people ate macaroni. So I grew up eating spaghetti all the time...

Markus

When i was a wee kid, i hated sugar (still hate it) and when i complained to my mom that the milk was too sweet, she always told me to mix the milk counterclockwise, making it less sweet...

Panda

I used to believe that broccoli was small trees and potatoes were just soft rocks.

The Mass

That donuts where healthy!!!

Stephanie!!

I used to think Rolf Harris owned KFC!

dave

I used to belive that green apples had metel in the core...

Zooma

My family is Italian and we've always had Italian food in the house. When I was little in the early 70's, some types of food were hard to come by in England or very expensive, at least. Parmesan cheese was one of these expensive items, so, kindly, my parents used to tell my sister and I that if you ate too much Parmesan it gave you worms. I believed it for years and years and years. Ridiculous eh!!!

Fran

My mom was giving us chocolate dinner rolls at supper one night. I thought because they were called rolls, they were supposed to roll on your plate. When my mom placed it in front of me, I stared at it, confused. It was just sitting still on my plate. I asked, "Why isn't it going to roll, mom?" Everyone laughed.

Kyle

when i was little i always thought that fillet mignon was flamin' yon. i thought this until i was about 14 when i saw it spelled out. i felt so stupid.

Hannah