food: general

I remembered a cartoon from when I was little that had a monter-lima bean. So whenever my mom made mixed veggies containing lima beans, i would smash them- thinking I was doing the world a great favor, being their hero for killing the monster lima-beans. Once I got the courage to taste one I figured they tasted so horrible because they were alive!!

Once my dad had made hot dogs and hamburgers for my siblings and myself for lunch. I didn't like hamburgers then and wanted a hot dog. But hot dogs always smell and look better than they taste, so when I got it I ended up not eating it. So to try and tempt me, my dad took a slice of American cheese and stuck it on there. After that, I picked off all of the cheese. My sister said it looked dead and my dad said I killed it and wanted to have a funeral. So my sister made up a coffin for my hot dog out of paper. We all collected in the back yard and buried the hot dog under a tree. Several years later I was convinced that if I dug it up, it would still be there.

we told my little brother that cherios made your feet stink and to this day he won't eat cherio's

When my brother was about 3 or 4, he would get angry and cry every time my mom asked him if he wanted grilled cheese to eat. We never understood why until one day during one of his crying fits he screamed "I DONT WANT GIRL CHEESE, I WANT BOY CHEESE"
Apparently we offended his budding masculinity by offering him the 'girl' cheese. In my house it was thereafter referred 2 as 'boy cheese for the boy, and girl cheese for the girls'.

I used to believe that if you ate too much cheese you would turn into a mouse. My cousins only told me that to make me stop eating cheese because I definetly ate too much cheese.

I used to think the reason people cried when they cut onions was because the onions were alive and who ever was cutting them was killing them.

I also thought the reason we praid before a meal (with onions in it) was TO pay our respect to the onions!

My Mum used to tell me to "eat all my dinner - just think of the starving children in Africa, they'd be very grateful to have your dinner." So I got quite confused when I was told off for not finishing what was on my plate because I thought that what I left would go to the starving children in Africa.

Where I come from you can buy bags of ice cubes from the supermarket. they were called polarbear ice cubes, for years i believed they were little blocks of frozen polar bear.

when i was in 2nd grade someone told me that if you ate those hard pretzels with cheese inside you would turn into a dog and i believed it so i neevr ate them. Then someone else told me that Pistacios made you pregnant. lol i believed that too.

When my mum used to make jelly from cubes (you know where u broke the cubes and added hot water so it went all liquidy before putting it into a bowl to set) i used to like drink the liquid jelly. She old me that the jelly would set in my stomach and that it would stay that way and i would wobble when i walked. For ages afterwards i walked very slowly and deliberately so no one would notice my 'wobble'

when my son was younger he would never eat pizza at pizza hut because of those old commercials withe the face on the pizza!he said it hurts the pizzas feelings...and it will kill them.

When I was around 3 or 4 i hated fish , so i would never eat it! around the same time i watched 'The Little Mermaid' ...and fell in love with Ariel! At the time i didn't really know how to swim ...and so my mom told me that if i ate fish i would turn into a mermaid ! I ate fish constantly , and would always stick my legs into our pool to see if they would turn into a fin!.... if ur wondering ...they never did !

When i was really young i used to loooove ice cream so much that once we had run out i had gotten the chocolate sandwhich spread 'nutella' and ate that in a bowl as a substitute for icecream and when my mother saw the chocolate in the bowl she would always ask when had we bought icecream? lol. i never told her because i didn't want everyone eating my chocolate 'icecream'

When I was younger I was told, by my aunt, that stuffing is the inside of a turkey( heart, liver, ect..). Despite this belief every Thanksgiving I would eat it until I would begin thinking about what it was and get a little nauseous, especially if I had a particularly moist portion. It wasn't until this past thanksgiving which was after my 17th birthday that I was told the truth. But if you think about it thats not to bad because my aunt really thought it was the insides of a turkey and shes 38.

Once during dinner when I was about 6, I kept slurping my soup really loudly, and my mom got really irritated about this so she told me that "If you keep slurping your soup like that you'll go deaf." I taught myself to eat my soup in a very quiet manner and believed that until I was 10.

I used to belief that mangoes were blue, because of a children's book where they were painted that colour. i was horrified when I realized that they weren't! I'm still searching, there must be some out there somewhere...