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We were at a restaurant when I was very young, and I demanded that I could order my own breakfast off the menu. My parents said okay, and when the waitress came over I was ready. She asked me what I wanted, and I proudly announced, "Two eggs - any style!"

Shuffledog

I used to believe that eating burnt toast would make your teeth whiter and would brush your teeth for you.

Natasha

I used to believe eggs were a substitute for a lost bouncy-ball. I would try to bounce the eggs on the living room floor, and when they would crack, I'd assume that egg was "defective" and grab another. Eventually, I figured out that eggs don't bounce but I'd still try it, yknow, 'just in case'.

Jen

Until I was 7, I used to think bananas were a dairy product.

Amplexor

I used to believe that pineapples grew on palm trees.

mel

That limes were unripe lemons

Alan

As a 'treat' on holidays, my parents would buy chocolate spread for me to have on my bread. As of this, I made myself think that chocolate spread was sold only during summer.

My mother recently reminded me that early on spring I had expressed how I was looking forward to the summer holidays, when the chocolate spread came back to the supermarket shelves...

Pål, Norway

When I was little, I used to beleive that those white mushrooms you buy at the store would make me grow big like they did Mario in the video games. I knew the ones in the yard weren't good though.

Camille Noire

That when my mother would open the pilsbury dough cans that the pilsbury dough boy would appear and then he would go down the drain. My parents had fun keeping this belief alive for years.

Steve

I used to believe that Firecrackers were Saltines that made a loud bang when lit on fire.

Minogue

People blow on hot food to make it a temperature better suited to their mouths. My teeth are sensitive to cold so for a long time I would blow on ice cream before eating it.

SarGeek

I used to believe that there were two tubes in my neck, one for drinks, and one for food, that lead directly to the very seperate substances that are pee and poo. Sometimes if I drank without being careful, I would accidentally breathe in the liquid... I didn't think about a tube for breathing, but I instead believed the drink had gone down the food tube and caused a massive problem.

so I still laugh to this day when I suck a bit of liquid into my trachea and scream... "IT WENT DOWN THE WRONG TUUUUBE!!!"

bee

When I was little, to get me to eat my, siblings told me there were people partying in my stomach. I had to eat food so they could eat and the party could keep going.

Jonas

After opening a tin of baked beans, and putting them in a pan, I would always leave 3 or 4 in the bottom of the tin thinking that i was helping them to escape a fate worse than being eaten. I would imagine them jostling in the bottom of the tin so that they would be the ones to be left. Im sure i could hear them cheering as i put the tin in the bin!!

Joan Mitchell