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i used to belive that "dessert" was a word that my family had made up until one day, at a restaurant, the waiter asked if i wanted dessert. i asked if this man was my uncle. to this day my parents don't know why.

oddgirl

When I was little, my grandma(maybe grandpa too) told me that if I didn't eat I'd get smaller and smaller till I could fit through the crack under the door. She (they) told this to my cousins too. When I was about 6, I believed this was true and I really wanted to grow. So that upset me. Till I grew up enough to realize it wasn't true. I've skipped meals before and I'm the size I'm supposed to be. I'm still here.

Anon

My dad made me belive ever since I was born that ketchup was called applesauce, and applesauce was called ketchup. One day I went to a restraint and got a hamburger, and I ask for some applesauce on it. The waiter just looked at me like "huh?" My parents explained to her that I really wanted "KETCHUP" on my hamburger, not applesauce.

Lauren

In order for my mom to get me to eat certain foods she would assighn them different names. She would call tomatoes cherry tomatoes and since i love fruit i would eat them. She also called fried egss bubble eggs. I think I was about 15 and we went to a resturant and someone asked me what kind of eggs i wanted and I said Bubble eggs please. I was totally emberassed when I found out that Bubble eggs were really fried eggs.

Drea

I used to believe that Haggis grew on trees, cause my dad tied one to a branch in the garden

Lynne

When I was a kid, my older brother told me that if I touched an uncooked potato, in my sleep I would turn into a giant potato and my family would eat me. That is to say, I never touched a potato or potato product (including fries) till I was about 11.

Crystal I

As a child my dad told me that the donner kebab meat was an elephants leg - I believed him until I was 9

Bryan

I had taken my 5 year old son to a popular fish-n-chips place to eat. Our food arrived and as I passed out the food, he loudly exclaimed, "I won't be eating any of those dog balls!" (He was talking about the hushpuppies)

Tammy

When I was little I didn't know that omelets were made with eggs, so when my mother asked me how I wanted my omelet I would always say: with eggs!

Melyan

When I was little I didn't understand about digestion and the relationship between food and "poop". I thought that when you were asleep the food would go down your leg and crawl out your feet. I would always think about little grren bean opening a door in my heel and walikng across my bed!

RachaelC.

I used to believe that if I closed my hand on a handful of peanuts, the peanuts would transform into a Snickers bar.

Heather

Because i was the youngest of 3 brothers my mom told me at an early age that chickens had front legs, all because i wanted a leg like my big brothers. I found out at school when the dinner lady said in front of everyone, chicken only got two legs !

try and live that one down .

curly

One day my grandmother took me to McDonald's for hamburgers and french fries. I bit into a fry that had a hollow space in it. I showed it to her and said "Look, nan, they didn't finish stuffing this one!" I couldn't understand why she laughed so hard at that!

Terri

When i was a kid, my father had me believing in the spaghetti tree, which resembled a willow tree but it was spaghetti that hung down and got cut off at harvest time. This i bought, lock stock and barrel, and was thoroughly confused when we were shown some old faked documentary showing the spaghetti being harvested in the fields in Italy!

Desba Silvers

When we had chicken for dinner my older brother and sister told me, that if you would eat chicken wings one day you could fly! Of course that was exactly what I wanted to do! So I specialized on chicken wings, while they ate away on those legs, that being the reason why they told me that story in the first place. Everybody was happy for a long time with this agreement!

Hans, Germany

When I was little I would always refuse to eat grilled-cheese sandwiches. It made my mother crazy, because she knew that I liked them. Finally one day she demanded to know why I wouldn't eat it and I said, "I can't eat GIRL cheese sandwiches... I'm a BOY."

Skeet

When we were little, each of my three sisters and I all went through a faze of think we were eating "Palmers and cheese" insted of parmesan cheese on our pasta. I always wondered what palmers were and how they mixed them into the cheese. I think I was imagining something along the lines of a palm leaf, I was quite disappointed when I found out the truth.....

Spaghetti fan, england