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We always celebrated Holidays with close friends and their large extended family. At the end of Christmas dinner one of the boys flipped mashed potatoes off a spoon, across the table. Everyone laughed! The next week, we were invited to dinner at the home of the local school principal. I flipped mashed potatoes across the table and no one thought it was funny! Go figure!

Norma

My mother never made mashed potatoes when I was a child. The first time I saw them at a neighbour's, I must have gotten a process wrong somewhere. since I asked my mother why she didn't add Spic and Span to her potatoes like the neighbour did!

Norma

My sister and i were on a plane coming home, when the stewardess gave us swiss cheese. My sister wanted mine, so she told me about her friend who turned into a mouse when she was 7, like me. and she told me that you can only eat it is you were 12 or over. I now hate cheese

Anna

I used to love mashed potatoes untill one night when i was 5, my sister told me that Pocahontases mother died of mashed potato posioning. Ever since, I hate all potatos.

Anna

i belive if we froze milk it would turn into icecream

joey

I use too thing the cone for ice cream could not be eatin soo i alwayz gave the cone too my mom !

Nikki

My grandmother used to always eat shredded wheat cereal and so I used to call those huge rolls of hay in the farmers fields "giant shredded wheat"!

mmm shredded wheat

My dad always told me that ketchup was made out of beans

Daddy's Little Girl

I used to think mushroom is a room with many rooms!

Deaf258 - Phx, AZ

I used to believe that if I accidentally ate one of the spikes on a pineapple my parents would yell at me for eating too big of a piece of the pineapple.(don't ask where this came from)

yummy spikes!

When I was Little, I thought a Pizza Pie was Tomatoe sauce, cheese, and Pepperoni inside of a pie crust....

LarLar

When i was around 3 i was very smart for my age and my mom basically made me a wierd little kid. She taught me never ever EVER eat dessert before your real food and i thought it was the law and so at my aunts wedding i saw her eating wedding cake and i ran up to her screaming NONONO u cant do that u have to eat real food FIRST and THEN you can have junk food!!! (i did the same thing at lunchtime in kindergarden, no wonder i was unpopular)

T.L.

When I was about 4 years old, my older cousin told me that the little brown spots on tortilla chips and Fritos were actually moles off off old people's butts. I didn't eat them again until I was 11 or 12.

Michelle

I used to think after watching a old 70's ad for Shredded Wheat that I could make it
by picking wheat (or simular) and adding
water in a bowl.

I never ate any thought.

The Fluffster

I used to think that pickles grew naturally in the sea, and that's why the water in the jar was so salty.

Anon

I used to believe that because oranges are called oranges, then bananas are called yellows, and watermelons are called greens. The only thing was I couldn't work out what an apple was called because they come in two different colours; would they be a redgreen?

Lil_Mountain_Girl

I thought that olives grew with that red pimento already in them. Then I somehow rationalized that as they ripen the red pimento became a pit. That's why black olives sometimes have pits.

Kevin the Olive Man

When I was small, I used to eat prunes, including the pits. My brothers told me that I would grow "prune trees" out of my ears.

Brilliant, Really!