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For the first decade or so of my life, I believed that mayo and mayonaise were different foods. I had heard of mayo but not in reference to what it actually is, so I pictured it as brown goop (as opposed to white-ish yellow goop).

Emily

I used to believe honey was made out of bee poop. I would read the ingredients to everything and avoid honey at all cost!

lawler

I used to believe that they got the lunchmeat bologna from cutting off dead people's butts.

angie

i used to believe that tastes could cancel eachother out so i always ate my chocolatey desert at lunch first and then cleans my palatte with something else so my chocolate milk wouldnt taste like just milk.

danny boy

When i was little, i used to think that brocolli were mini trees, so i tried planting one one time.

Stacey

My mom told me that frozen bananas are poisonous. I believed this until I was 25.

idiot

My mom would get me to eat mushrooms by telling me they would make my boobbies grow really big!
Well 26 years later and I'm still eating lots of mushrooms, but I think she meant to say they would make my thighs grow instead.

Kaila

When I was 5, I thought that if I ate that cheesy dressing stuff my head would turn into a cheese like the guy in the commercials.....

HAMp103

i always got told that if you ate too many carrots your whole body would turn orange .then i was told that carrots improved your eyesight.so i ate a bunch of carrots and waited for my skin to change colors.

Erin S.

I usedto believe that my veggies had feelings. If I left a couple of peas in my plate I felt guilty because they needed to be with their "family", so I ate every last one up. It was a great way to get me to clean my plate!

Brian

i loved chicken livers when i was little.But i called them chicken buzzards, one day i said mom fix me some chicken buzzards!

goose

When I was 3, I was told by my much older neighbor friends that the red pistachios they were eating were medicine and that little kids can't eat them or they would die.

Why do/did they dye the pistachios red in the first place?

Cindy

When I was about 3, my Dad convinced me I didn't like Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwiches...only Jelly & Peanut Butter. So, when my mom would make me a PB&J I would cry until she made me a J&PB instead. Of course, she just went into the kitchen and flipped it over!

Nut Head

Thanks to the imagination of my mom & dad, I used to believe that eating green beans would put hair on your chest; that if you sat too close to the fan your face would become paralyzed; that if you sat too close to the TV you would go blind and that if you walked on your tippy toes you would be prescribed cement shoes to wear so that you would stop!

Audra - Virginia

My mom used to make grilled cheese sandwiches with Velveeta, and when I was young, there was a girl on the Velveeta box. For many years I thought they were "girl cheese sandwiches".

Angie

When McDonalds began selling McFlurries I thought they were named after Calgary Flames player Theron Fleury, and I wondered what they were called in other cities.

Jenn

When I was about 5 years old I one day asked my mother where my father and grandfather had gone to. She said they were out getting mushrooms. I thought OH BOY..WHAT FUN! a mushy room to jump around and play in. How disappointed I was when they returned home with a large bag of these yellow plants (morel mushrooms).

Tracy

When I was young I formulated that because medicine tasted gross, that delicious foods were obviously bad for you. At my 9th birthday I refused to eat any cake so that I wouldn't be made too sick to go to Chuckiee Cheeze's.

Jono Davis

I used to talk to my Mrs. Butterworth's syrup bottle at every breakfast and wondered why she wouldn't talk back to me like it did on TV.

Suzy