general

i use to believe that guacamole was ogre boogers and it didnt help that my mean older sister said it was true. to this day i cant eat avocados even though i know there is no connection to ogres. definltity traumatized for life.

mia

Growing up in the southeastern U.S., my first experience with "French fries" and "hush puppies" was at a "fish camp", the kind of rustic seafood reataurant known by that name in that region. Since it was a seafood restaurant, I thought that those things must be two items of seafood. So I spent much time wondering what the sea cretters "French fries" and "hush puppies" looked like when they were alive. Eventually I learned that not everything that is conventionally part of a "seafood dinner" in those parts is really seafood. I was somewhat disillusioned to learn that French fries are actually fried strips of potato and hush puppies are fried balls of cornmeal. My romantic notions of seafood could perhaps have been sustained a bit longer if someone had told me that those two items were actually parts of the same kind of sea monster -- the French fries coming from around the monster's eyes and the hush puppies being pieces of its ears.

Shannon

When i was younger, my parents used to tell me that if i ate fish eggs, i would be really bad in maths. I decided to swear off fish eggs...I often wondered why my parents would keep eating it though..

when i was in my late teens, i finally realised that my parents told me this, so that they would'nt have to share it with me.

Til today, i m not really a fan of fish egg..and i kinda believe tat me being good in maths is attributed to not eating fish eggs!!

MC

I used to believe that peanut butter was the same as butter, and that flour was flour and peanut flour was like wheat flour.

Anon

I used to think popcorn grew on trees until i was 13.

Davina

Mum always boiled the suet pudding in muslin tied with cord. This resulted in the pudding looking as though it had a butt. At meal time, when asked if I wanted pudding, I said yes, but don’t give me the bum part.

Vegetarian

That Fish Fingers came from The Man from Atlantis and my mum said that it was ok to eat them because he had the power of a starfish and so could grow them back again! I think I had figured out the truth when he became Bobby Ewing in Dallas!

Steve O'Grady

When my family ate melon I would leave the skins segments outside along with a couple of used teabags - I thought I was feeding the Moon.

Robert

i used to beleive that whatever i had for tea everyone else in the world would be having the same as me!!!

layla lose

everybody in my family used to be taught that when we eat red paprika as a spice in vegetable sauces and soups, this is what made our cheeks red, and to make us eat carrots my Mom told carrots make us be able to whistle...I stopped believing in this when I stopped to believe in Santa Claus, around 10 years of age.

Veron

When I was little, I never ate pesto sauce because I thought if you ate it, it meant you were a pest.

Anon

My gran always told me to 'go easy on the tomato ketchup, because I'm not buying any more', this made me think she was going to die when the bottle was empty, and subsequently made me feel very guilty whenever I put it on my food - in very small amounts.

I realise now she was fibbing, since she lived 'till I was 40!

Lynne

i always thought that if you swallowed an orange pit it would grow out of your head, i once was in deep distress for a whole weekend coz i swallowed one, much to my older sisters delight

kenneth

As a child, i used to find toothpaste particularly yummy. To prevent me from eating too much of it, my dad always told me tht very soon, id have a 'toothpaste tree' growing in my tummy and out of my mouth. That really did make me apprehensive abt my fav meal.

Salil

I used to believe that when you became an adult,you would automatically like or even love chilli or chilli sauce or spicy stuff like that!

Tamisha

When I was younger, my cousin told me that if you ate a breakfast cereal, you would turn into the character on the box.

I used to have nightmares about turning into Rory the Tiger on Frosties!

Natski

I used to believe that brocoli were little trees and that the Keebler Elves lived in them. I found out this wasn't true when I asked my mother, "Where do the elves live after we cut down their trees to eat them?"

Reece