food: general

i used to think that stepping on a banana peel could make you do a backflip. i absolutely HATED bananas, but i would open one, eat one bite, and hide the rest somewhere around the house. then, i would put the banana peel down on the floor (carpet, take a running start, and jump on the peel. it never worked, and i always ended up grinding slimy banana peel into the carpet. i never gave up, though.

One day in church the priest read us the passage in the Bible where Jesus curses a fig tree. I got it into my head that all figs were cursed, and when one was packed in my best friend's lunch box, I ran screaming towards her, snatched it out of her hand, and threw it into our school pond. When I told my friend that all the figs were cursed, she replied that I must have cursed all the goldfish in the pond, and I felt very guilty!

I used to believe that a serial killer went around killing the cereal so i hid cereal in my bedroom so the "cereal" killer woun't kill my cereal.

i used to think that you were hallow inside, and when you eat the food went all the way down your toes and when you felt full, it meant the food was filled up to your neck.

My friend revealed to me that when she was little, she once asked her dad what those advertising columns are for, and he told her they are used to store sauerkraut inside them. She believed that until she was about 15 or 16.

i used to think that colonel sander's (the kfc guy's) bow tie was his arms and legs, so he looked to me like a big head with little stick-man arms and legs

My auntie was told by her husband that glacia cherries were made of seaweed, she wouldnt eat them for years.

I was about 11 and my family went to have dinner with my parents' friends. The other family had a boy about 5. We were served 'Au Gratin' Potatoes. Sounded good to me, but the little boy did not want to eat them. His Mama said, "They are good! Try them." The Little Boy then said, "Mama,please don't make me eat, OLD ROTTEN POTATOES!!!!"

I didn't want him to eat them either.

I used to believe…

all my teachers and my parents and people on T.V would say - an apple a day keeps the dentist away. So when the time came that i had to brush my teeth(which i hated) i would an apple instead

When I was really young I thought the food you ate just dropped down into your body and would slowly pile up starting at your feet. This theory was confirmed I thought when I was at the hospital once and had a chest x-ray done. The doctor was showing the image to my dad and I and my dad was pointing out my lungs to me. The bottom of the x-ray was really dark so I pointed to it and said "and that's the food I ate?" My dad goes "ya", probably cause he didn't know what I was talking about. I struggled with the problem of what happens when you fill up your whole body for awhile until I learned about digestive systems in school.

When I was young I thought that it was a "great privaledge" to go to the grocery store with my mom and sit in the cart. To entertain me my mom would pass me the items to throw into the cart. Then my younger sister came along, and she would ride inthe body of the cart and I would ride in the seat. Now old habits don't die, so when my mom passed me a grapefruit it hit my sister right in the face. I have always wondered if she would have been normal if that had never happened...

When I was 6 I didnt know what the word raw meant. My friend told me that raw bananas would kill you if you ate them. Later I saw my mom eating a banana. I asked her if it was raw and she said it was. I got really scared that my mom was going to die until she explained what raw meant.

I used to always associate the world "double" with cheeseburgers because of double cheeseburgers from McDonald's.

I was upset that Mrs. Butterworths did not actually speak. The first time I had Mrs Butterworths syrup my older sister told me that she wasn't speaking because she was dead. She couldn't breathe in the shopping bag from the grocery store and she suffocated on the way home. I cried for a long time at that one.

I used to call Chinese Spareribs Chinese chicken. (Spareribs to me at the time tasted a lot like chicken) So I thought that chickens in China had really weird "rib-shaped" legs.

We had a charity box at home above our television, we were constantly told in school how we had to send to give generously to all the starving children in the world. Why then was my mum so annoyed to find an array of food squashed in to the box from various meals in the week before?