general

I used to believe that pretzals were made of wood.

Anon

As a boy, I always thought that I wasn't allowed to eat Hershey's bars, since they were obviously intended for girls. It's right there in the name, after all: HER-SHE's bars. And the same went for "girled cheese sandwiches".

romulus

When I was six my sister told me Meat Pies were made from mashed up rats...to this day I can't eat a Meat Pie.

Jamie

i used to believe that spaghttii was worms that were bleeding

lisa

When I was little one of my favourite snacks was a plate of sliced apple and cheese, and my favourite pudding was blancmange. If she'd made one of these for me and then I changed my mind and didn't want it, my Mum would tell me it was the Queen's favourite food, and that always encouraged me to eat.

Daisy K

First time I saw brown eggs I was worried but dad told me that they were laid by happy chicken. For ages I refused to eat eggs laid by "unhappy" chicken and I believed him up into my teenage years!

Minnie

As a boy, I had a toy farm with various plastic animals. I knew where milk came from and when I noticed the nipples on the toy pig I assumed that was how bacon was extracted from pigs - as a sort of liquid that was laid out to dry and solidify.

Anon

Around age 6 or 7, my little brother was absolutely convinced that spaghetti grew on trees, like a willow tree but spaghetti noodles. He was 9 before I convinced him otherwise by reading the ingredients on the box.

Jen, MI, USA

You know how on the coco puffs comercial they would used to jump in the box and go into a chocolatly world? Well I used to make my mom buy the cocoa puffs and i would take the cereal out of the box and stand in the box and nothing would happen. I would get so mad and then my mom would yell at me for ruining the box

Anon

My partner's Mum thought that pigs layed sausages just like chickens lay eggs.

Bunny

I used to believe that chicken fingers were made out of the chickens fingers (gross). So everytime i sat down to eat them i told my siblings and we wouldn't eat them

Anon

I used to believe that there were two kinds of olives: those with a stone (black) and those with red stuff inside (green), and that they grow like that on trees.

Jens

I used to believe that when a farmer got eggs form one of his prize chickens he'd mark the egg with a black cross. Of course it was my mum doing it. Fast forward twenty years and i'm in the supermarket and girlfriend picks up some eggs "oh hold on" i say "let me check them to see if there are any special eggs". Much hilarity ensued and still does - at my expense.

Christmasbear

When I was about 8 or 9 I went round to my friend's house for tea and we were having soup. I asked what it was and they told me Oxtail soup, I recoiled in horror and proclaimed that there was no way I'm going to eat foxes tail! And I hate to admit it but since that day it hasn't passed my lips.

Kathy

Up until about the age of 9, I believed that rice was the product of hail storms. This was encouraged/initiated by my mother who, when it was hailing, would stand outside with a cup, catch some hailstones and then come inside and make a rice pudding, pretending to put the caught hailstones in it.

becky

My mother and older sister once fooled me into believing something that mind scared me. They used to eat Haagen-Daz every night after supper. I asked to have one to which they replied, "You can't, they are only for girls. If a boy eats one, his penis will fall off and he'll grow breasts and become a woman!" I still haven't eaten one; Though, I know it was baloney.

Shane

As a child I used to believe that the cone from a 99' ice-cream wasn't edible, but was just a container for the ice-cream. How I cried one day about all those discarded cones when I saw another child actually eating one.

JW

that the large, cylindrical chunks of meat in kebab shop windows was made from an elephant's leg (I guessed after the outer part had been removed to make one of those creepy elephant leg umbrella holders).

jules

i thought for a long time that 'brownie points' were things you collected up, and when you had enough, you got a brownie. when i told my mum this some years later, she went out and bought me a brownie to make up for all those years i'd been waiting!

steph