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i belived spicy musturd was chinese musturd my dad told me that

hobbit13

I always thought my animal craker box was refilled by magic fairies. If I left the empty box on the counter, magically the next morning it would be filled again. My parents keep the large container hidden, I didn't know you could buy them in bulk!

Joyce

My dad's explanation of where and how macaroni and spagetti were grown and harvested...picked from bushes and cut such as grass (respectively) in south Texas, dried and packaged for grocers...'til the Discovery Channel launched.

Jotie Orquiz

My little sister used to believe Brazil Nuts were called "genie nuts" and if you ate enough a genie would come out and grant your wish. Thanks to her older sister, she went to Jr. High still believing that. :)

Nik

When I was younger, my mom used to make some really fantastic split pea soup. Although up until about the age of 7, I thought she was saying spit pea soup, and I would get very disgusted that there was spit in it, but would eat it anyway because it was so good. I also though that grilled cheese sandwiches were girled cheese sandwiches, and once I asked for a boyed cheese sandwich!

Hannah

My mother told me that if you ate the cranberry in Rosoff's Saurekrat jar that it was poison and you would die.
I think I beleived that for almost 20 years until I found out that it was only a decoration!

Linda H.

My friend's daughter used to call Apples "Napples". Actually, it made sense since people would always ask her if she wanted AN Apple - which sounded to her like A Napple!

Carole Preble

I used to believe that the inside of my body was empty, and when you ate something, it went down to the lowest part of your body. So, if your first meal of the day was "salad", you would have "salad" inside your feet.

Carm

My mom always told me that oranges had lots of vitamin C in them and for some reason I thought that the white stuff on the inside of the orange peel was vitamin C. I thought that you had to eat that part to get the vitamins.

NobodysSon

i used to belive that if you found a peanut in smooth peanut butter you could sue the peanutbutter company for false advertisment

Anon

We would go on picnics and there would be 4 chicken legs in the basket. Dad had me convinced all chickens had 4 legs. After all, how did Mother get 4 to fry ?

MaMa Frasher

I used to think that butter's only use was to cool down hot foods; butter is kept in the fridge and then you cut a slice off put it on hot food and it melts into liquid that cools the food so you can eat it...toast pops up..it gets buttered...hot dinner rolls out of the oven...get the butter...corn-on-the-cob...slather it on!

Katie

When I was little my dad told me that if you drank too much coffee it would make your skin turn black.

Anon

Mine is similar to another I seen. When I was a kid my older brother told me that the peaches in a can have veins in them. If you look closely, you'll see what I mean. To this day I don't eat much fruit at all beacause I've noticed that a lot of fruit has "Veins."

Andrea V.

On my first day of kindergarten, the lunch menu said, "Pig in a blanket" (A hotdog wrapped in bread.) Visualizing a very large live pig shaking and covering it's eyes while hiding under my 'Blankie', (blanket) I walked up to my mom, all worried, and asked, "Do I really have to eat a pig in a blanket?"

Anon

I used to believe that chicken fingers were sea food. Because whenever you go to a seafood resturant, chicken is always an option.

Crystal

For some reason, I used to believe that if you put grape "stems" (the stuff left over after you've eaten all of the grapes) in the oven, that it'd turn into a huge baked turkey.

Jessica Tinch

I believed when I was little that the crunchy stuff on fried chicken was actually the chicken's feathers. They would just pop the chicken into the oven and it would come out looking like fried chicken...

Jessica