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When I was little, my parents used to put cucumber cubes in my tuna sandwiches. I didn't like cucumbers so they told me they were sugar cubes. I believed them until the age of 10 when I asked a friend's mom to put sugar cubes in my tuna sandwich.

Rebecca

My dad told me once that the reason that Kentucky Fried Chicken only had popcorn chicken every once in a while was because they saved up all the leftover chicken parts and breading all year and then made popcorn chicken with them when they got enough. I believed him for years.

christa

I think it was Tom & Jerry, but it may have been some other cartoon with a cat & mouse where the cat always told the mouse he was going to make mince meat out of him. Well, one Christmas my mom said she was going to make mince meat pie. I said "There's no way I'm going to eat a pie made out of mice!"

Anne

when i was a little kid my mom tried everything to get me to eat egg salad sandwiches. she finally decided to tell me that only older people liked them, and that they were often called "high-school sandwiches" because of their raging popularity among the hig-school kids. needless to say, i was convinced, and eventually grew to love the high-school sandwich. unfortunately, i was quite embarrassed when was informed (in my 20's no less) that the name was merely a ploy used by my mom to get a gullible young boy to eat his food. i was still using the term at the time of my disturbing discovery.

joel

I remember when i was in year 3 that my friend told me at dinner time that the school mash was made out spider legs and thats why it was ss lumpy. Never again did i eat school mash even when i found out he was lying.

Adam

The Mrs. Butterworth syrup bottle used to freak me out when I was little! I thought she could talk, so everytime we went past her in the grocery store, I'd back as far away as possible!

Tina

i used to think the red wax that covered baby bel cheese was gum

jeck

For years I was confused about the slogan, "Leggo my Eggo". I thought it might have something to do with Lego blocks, but I could not understand any connection they would have with waffles, or why there were no Lego blocks included with the waffles. It was only when I was about 12 that I suddenly realized that "Leggo" was an abbreviated version of "Let go".

Cath

Spaghettis grow on trees.

Anon

when i was little i thought that grilled cheese sandwiches were called 'girl cheese sndwiches', so i would always scream "No, i want boy cheese sandwiches!" when my dad asked me if i wanted some grilled cheese sandwiches.

James

i used to think that i could cook food on the furnice register...and there were hotdogs all over my room, and some of them were like moldy...and my brother told me that the boogyman would stop stealing my toys if i smeared peanut butter all over my toys, so i did, and i got in trouble, but i was only 3 so you can't blame me... ;)

zooma

When i was younger, my dad once told me too peel celery so i could get down to the center. I was peeling fro about a half-hour before i realized he was joking.

katie

When I was little my father always told me if I was to eat anything green it would turn my cheeks green... I recently found out the reason he told me this ... SO I wouldn't eat it and mom wouldn't cook it just for herself (selfish man) Just b/c he didn't like it. lol ... I never aquired a taste for "green" foods and rarely eat them now.

Pamela

I used to believe that eating stuff like smart food or simply samrt(milk) would make you smarter b/c it had smart in its name.

Anon

i used to believe that eggs used to come from humans.

Anon

I can remember telling my dad that when i was "grown up" i could eat nuts, to me "grown up" was about 6years old, as i'd need my teeth to be strong and in my head, that was when that happened!
I tried one walnut and I hated it. :) i guess being grown up doesn't mean you automatically like nuts.

nutter

My parents used to tell me that I would get muscles like popeye when I ate spinach. I remember them pointing at my arms when I ate spinach saying "ohh there's one now" I kept searching for them until I was 12 before my friends pointed out how stupid that was. Why'd they do that I never said I didn't like spinach!!

Gullible in CO

I used to believe that peaches and nectarines were the same thing.

Marybeth