food: general

when i was about 5 or 6, my mom would always show me those commercials where there were kids in somalia that ate out of garbage cans because they were so poor. so my mom would show me those commercials and tell me, "That's why you should eat everything that i give you because those kids have nothing to eat." So I thought that my mom didnt want to help those kids because she told me to eat everything on my plate and not throw anything away. so naturally, i threw all the food that i could into the trash can. i thought that this would help the kids who ate out of the trash cans.
Note:
my mom meant that i shouldnt thrown any thing into the trash because i was lucky to have food and that i shouldnt waste it. i was 5 or 6 so i didnt get the meaning at the time.

When I was about 9 years old, my Mom gave me some money and told me to get her a pound of lox. Later, I came back home with the money she had given me and told her the man in the hardware store said he only sold locks by the piece, not the pound.

When my mom baked whole chickens and/or cornish hens in the oven - I used to stick notes on them that said "help me, it is hot in here"

i belived that you said grace at dinner time if the food was bad. when I was 4 my grandma asked if I wasnt going to say prayers before dinner? No I replied mums a good cook.

When i was little and I wanted to eat at Wendy's I used to tell my mom i wanted to eat at the place with "the little girl with red hair" in spanish, for some reason she never understood me. I don't see why she didn't... oh well

i used to think that when you ate things like liver and brains it would add to your own, the little bits after being chewed would move to corresponding organ in your body. if u ate more liver your liver would grow.

when i was a little kid, my parents told me that how ever many grain of rice i left on my plate, it would appear on my face. so, when i saw people with pimples on their face, i thought it was because they left rice on their plate.

Once when I was younger I thought that a mistake was some kind of meat like a porterhouse or a t- bone, so when my parents would say that they made a mistake I thought dinner would be ready soon.

When I was little we used to eat at Chinese restaurants a lot, and I would always see "hunan chicken", as in chicken cooked in the style of the Hunan province in China, on the menu. I misread it as "human chicken" and thought it was made from people. Once my grandma ordered some and i freaked out- "Don't eat it Grandma! Its people!"

Mom told us that if we didn't eat every single bite of our veggies at dinner time, we'd get colon cancer.

The first time I met my Uncle from South Africa he started telling me all about their life in South Africa and he told me that they would often eat lions and zebras. I was really quite horrified, but figured as you could buy crocodile and Emu here in Australia that it was possible that in Africa they would eat Lions and Zebras.
He later told me he was making the whole thing up.
I was 20 at the time.

My mother always told me not to pour the oil from tuna cans down the sink, and I knew that tuna was somehow connected to killing Dolphins, so I always thought that if you poured the oil from the tuna can down the sink it would kill all the dolphins!

My mom always told my sister and I that the brown spots on the banana were where the most sugar was. So we always fought over who got to eat the banana with the most dark spots.

We used to always eat fish on Fridays, my dad would call it Cod Steak Day. I used to think Cod Steak Day (Fridays) were special just like the Holy Day (Sundays). I thought it was like a law or something that on Fridays you were suppose to eat fish for dinner, just like you had to go Church and have a Sunday lunch on Sundays. Weird thing is I never thought anything of it when we stopped both. Only reason I remember this is because my Mum and sister started talking about Cod Steak Day.

I used to believe what ever was brown tasted like chocolate

Until about last week or so, I believed that Pineapple's grew on trees! :o I kept telling my friend that she was lying, even my mom wouldn't believe me. My surprised when she showed me some pictures. o_o;