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I used to believe that french fries were stuffed with mashed potatoes... but I could never figure out how they got in there.
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For some reason, I got the belief in my head that armoured trucks (the ones that carry money) actually held biscuits. It never struck me that the securtity guards and snipers were there to protect anything... I thought they just really liked biscuits. I still associate armoured trucks with Ginger-Mango biscuits...
i use to believe that all chickens were girls and all roosters were boys and so0o every time i ate a chicken i thought i was eatn a gurl chicken and since im a girl i stopped eat chicken.
when I was 5 - 6 a kid tried to convince me that the black bits in the middle of a banana was ELEPHANT MEAT. He told me with great conviction, yet I wasnt sure.........
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my uncle used to think that "parmesan" cheese was called "Farmer John" cheese.... it took him YEARS to figure out the real word!
When I was about 6 I thought crumpets grew on trees because my Aunty used to bring a pack with her when she visited us. One day she didn't and I asked why not. She replied "they're out of season" so naturally I thought they grew on trees!
I used to believe that the eggs my mother used to keep in the fridge would hatch if i kept them warm enough. So i used to put them under my pillow or hid them anywhere around the house to find it squashed under my bed or rotting behind the tv the next day or whenever i checked on it.
My dad once told me that I was cruel to eat runny eggs, they could of been little chicks he said, I did eat another runny egg until on honeymoon they looked lovely so I ate them again
I used to believe that pretzals were made of wood.
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".
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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.
i used to believe that spaghttii was worms that were bleeding
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.
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!
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.
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.
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My dad told me that kiwi fruits were kiwi birds testicles. They are the right shape and kind of furry
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
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My partner's Mum thought that pigs layed sausages just like chickens lay eggs.
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
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.