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This is the funniest memory from middle school, 8th grade, that I have:
My best friend and I were goofing around in our history class as usual. We were studying Napoleon (no, not Dynamite! :-P) Bonaparte and after our teacher read us the chapter about him, he told us to work on our packets as usual. Well, we started working on them together when she says to me "I don't see why they named an ice cream after Napoleon. He sounds mean to me." and I said "Yeah I wonder why too! I could never figure it out!" So when our teacher walked past us, we flagged him downn asking "Why does Napoleon have an ice cream named for him?" He looked at us and said "What are you talking about?" and we say "You know! Napoleon ice cream! The kind with the chocolate, strawberry and vanilla in the same box!" (We seriously thought he was messing with us by pretending not to know.) He put his face into his hands, trying not to laugh and said "NO, that's Neopolitan ice cream! Not Napoleon ice cream!" (He was astounded that we had the same thought about that ice cream!) Naturally we couldn't concentrate for the rest of class because we were laughing too hard over the truth of the ice cream. (It still brings us to tears when we think of it!) :-D

Bubbles :-)

I used to think that peanut butter came from butter cups because my sister told me that if you put it under your chin and it reflected yellow on your skin you had recently ate peanut butter.

Heazure

My little brother used to believe that if something was pictured on a bottle, that something was used to make the food (for instance, rabbits were a key ingredient in the molasses brand that had a rabbit pictured on the front). So when he saw a bottle of Grandma's Molasses for the first time with that cute picture of a little old lady... well, he freaked out a little bit.

Brooke

Just until a few weeks ago, i believed that buffulo wings actually came from buffulo. I mean, i knew buffuloes didnt have wings but i just figured that the meet came from the buffulo's "side." I was very disapointed when i found out the truth while watching an epidode of NEWLYWEDS...

Kayla

When i was little i used to believe that haggis' were real animals and that they were very small, furry and had one leg longer then the other for when it ran around the hill sides and mountains in Scotland!!!

Matt

Because rasperry flavour drinks are always blue and called "blue raspberry" flavour I used to think there was an actual fruit called a blue raspberry.

Anon

When I was a toddler I was terrified of bananas, and would scream if I saw a whole one. I think this was because I grew up in the 60s, and I though they were bombs. They only way I would entertain eating them was sliced up in milk or a sandwich.

Sillyisles

I accidentally swallowed a plum pit when I was five and worried for days waiting for the plum tree to start growing out of my stomach.

Anon

I used to believe there were little people in your stomach stacking the food up: eggs in this pile, bacon in that pile etc.

Rowland

we were eating at a Chinese Buffet once & our daughter went to the dessert part of it & chose jello. She took a bite & stated "Chinese Jello tastes just like American Jello!!!"

Anon

I always refused to eat coffeecake because I thought it was made with coffee grounds.

Anon

My dad told me that raisins were the dead flies from the windowsill

Kellie

When I was about 5 or 6 I asked my Grandmother where pork chops came from. She told me from a pork chop bush and that if I planted a pork chop bone it would grow into a pork chop bush of my own. I tried it and when nothing happened she said I hadn't watered it enough. I was so disappointed.

Joseph

A few years ago my cousin (now 9 years old) used to call eggs "eggimos". My grandma to this day still calls eggs "eggimos" in front of my cousin, and he gets all embarassed and yells "I don't call eggs that anymore Grannie!" She'd just laugh. I called them that once too, when I was asking him what he wanted for breakfast. "Do you want eggimos, or pancakes?" "Eggimos? What are you nuts!?!? There EGGS!" He exclaimed. I still laugh at that.

Anon

When I was little, I was convinced you could bend a cracker. If you were quick enough, it would bend into a little V-shape. Of course, this only resulted in smashed crackers all over the living room floor.

Jessica Tinch

When I was little, my mom told me *she had been married to him for a very long time at this point, and could tease him a bit* that the reason my father had become blind was because he didn't eat his carrots. This scared the dickens out of me, and from that point on, I ate all the carrots left out, which turned out to sometimes be 3 or 4 whole carrots...!
As it turns out, my father has retina pigmentosus *sp?* and started losing his vision in highschool.

Chiara

I always though that chicken fried steak was chicken, fried like steak. I thought is was so nasty that there was brown chicken, so I wouldn't eat it-until I was 15 and my mom told me it was steak, fried like chicken...now I'm a chicken fried steak fiend!

Blackie

I used to believe that if a can of tuna had the words "Dolphin Safe" on the label, it meant there were no chunks of dolphin in the tuna.

Jessica Tinch

It was this one time i was over at my neighbor, who was eight years younger than me, he was at that time five... I had this bad habbit of sucking on unriped cherries. He asked me why I was sucking on it. I told him it tasted as coke. He ran over to the tree to have one as well. But quickly realized it didn't taste as coke, and was really upset. Then I told him that it was only the ones in the top of the tree that tasted like coke. He started climing the tree, and every once in a while stopped to cheek to see if the unriped cherries at where he was tasted like coke. When he'd reached pretty high, I told him that I'd only joked with him, but he wouldn't believe me. He kept on climbing all the way to the top...

Cherry