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I thought the blue veins in some cheeses were actually blood vessesls!

Helen

I believed that if someone burped, sneezed or coughed near me while I was eating, the germs would float to my food. I would frantically cover or fan my hands above any "sticky" food, like spaghetti or meatloaf, cause the germs would get stuck to it as they floated by. But if it was something dry, like bread, I could just brush the germs off the top.

Susie

Living in Louisiana, we celebrate Mardi Gras with a King Cake that has a small plastic baby figure placed inside. When I was 8 months pregnant with my third child, I offered a piece of king cake to my two young children. I was explaining to them that the cake had a baby inside of it. Both of them looked confused and refused their piece of cake. Later I realized that there had been lots of discussion about a baby being inside of me, and they were probably thinking the same thing about the cake!

rodene

Until I was 13, I didn't know that the meat I ate consisted of muscles. I thought that bodies contained muscles, lungs, all the usual internal organs - PLUS meat, which was sort of a filler material.

Martin

When I was in preschool, the class bully told me that peas were actully cow boogers. Still won't eat peas.

Ren

I used to believe you couldnt leave any peas on your plate otherwise they would be upset at being parted from the ones you ate.

Charlotte

I never knew that raisins were dried grapes. One day I accidently dropped a grape and it rolled under our microwave. A few months later my parents changed the kitchen around and I wondered why there was a raisin where I'd left a grape.

P

I used to think that hotdogs came from charcoal cubes. I think it started when I watched my father set up a barbeque. I never saw the hotdogs placed on the grill. All I remember is seeing the dogs on the grill and the charcoals disintegrated...

Kevin

When I was a child, my Mom told me that carrots had vitamins in them. I tried and tried to see them and was sure if I kept eating them that one day I would find a vitamin tablet inside.

Anon

I used to believe that if you soaked a raisin (or prune) in water, it would turn back into a grape (or plum).

C.C.

When i was little I thought the bruised part of the banana was the healthiest part. That's what my mom told us to get us to eat it.

Tammy

I used to believe anchovies and artichokes were the same thing.

Darren

My friend had me convinced that when you broke a peanut in half, the little thing at the top, bettween the two was a gnome. I would pick that part out.

Emee

My parents had me convinced when I was a child that the cuts of meat we ate for dinner were from dinosaurs. it was the only way they could get me to try anything new.

Andy

My niece used to call Marmite Falloy! Where she got the word Falloy from nobody knows

Russ

In the late 60s a type of artificial sweetener called 'cyclamates' were banned, and one brand of orange squash had 'cyclamate free' printed on the label. I couldn't work out why they were giving away flowering house plants with squash.

ann