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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

I convinced my sister for years that the tamarinds (fruit) in worcestershire sauce were actually tamarins (monkeys), which, as she was a precocious vegetarian, prevented her from eating it.

tim stevens

when I was little my brother told me that corn was made out of whale flubber and of course I believed him because I looked up to him and i named my stuffed animale whale corn.

Nicole

My elder sister has a bad habit of refusing to swallow her food when she was a toddler. my mom was frustrated for having to chase my sister around the house for a full hour to get her to eat so she told my sister that "if you don't swallow, the food is going to turn into worms" oh boy, she sure ate real fast after that.

Lin Lyonene

In 3rd grade I heard a saying about if you eat an apple every day you will not get ill and check in to the doctors ever again. I hated apples and my brother loves them, but he is ALWAYS ill and seeing doctors. I pretty much figured out the saying is not true when my brother banged his head against a wall by accident and had to stay in hospital.

annie

When my sister was younger my dad told her that if she ate bananas or anything else that was yellow she'd become a monkey (he frequently called her "my little monkburger"). She's 21 now and she still hates that colour.

Biggs

i used to think that the eggs known as Sunny Side Up were called 'Dip Egg', because my mom always would slice up pieces of toast to dip in the egg. I remember going to Bob Evans one day with my family when I was about 8, and i tried to order dip egg. the waitress looked at me funny, and i couldnt figure out why.

i love dip-egg!

When I was younger I would eat sandwiches for lunch nearly every day. I would watch my dad cut them and I always wondered where the middle went. I thought that there should have been a little sliver in the middle where the cut was made.

Joanna

Ever wondered where Fish Fingers (fish sticks) come from? Well, they catch the fish, chop their fingers off, and throw them back into the water. When my kids told me they have never seen a fish with fingers, I told them "of course not. They've all been caught". It's the same for chicken's too you know, and you really don't want to know where the nuggets come from!

Elizabeth

In 1954 when I was 4 years old we got our first TV. An advertisement for KIX breakfast cereal showed a boy and girl my own age eating the cereal and then flying off the floor and around the room while the noise of a jet plane was heard and the announcer said: "Eat KIX and be jet propelled". Soon afterward, the first time I ever ate KIX cereal was absolutely beyond a doubt the most horribly disappointed I have EVER been in my life, and that was 50 years ago!

Still earthbound

I believed that Victoria Sponge cakes were names after someone called Victoria Sponge. I wondered what she had done to have a cake named after her.

Lilly

When i was 2 up until i was 5, i always thought that the little extras on food packages (like the strawberries on the cheerios box)were supposed 2 be included and i was always disappointed whenever i oppened a box and there was nothing there. finally my mom explained 2 me that the food wasnt defective, it was just decoration.

Ms.BLondi

When I first heard the story Goldie Locks & the Three Bears I thought they ate polish out of tins. We never ate porridge in our house and I heard it as polish which we had in small tins ie Cherry Blossom

Anon

when I was little my dad and brother told me that every time I ate bread I was eating a little, dead doughboy, and I believed this for years

L.M.