general

When I was younger my sister told me that cream eggs were made with real cream (which I didn't like) so that I would give any that I had to her!

Anon

When I was a young child, my parents would have heated discussions regarding the state of their finances. During these converstaions, my mom would often say "I just can't make ends meet." I believed that end's meet was a sort of casserole or lunch meat: end's meat. I didn't understand at all the importance of my mom making end's meat when I was perfectly happy with hotdogs and mac and cheese.

Cyndi

As a child, we always had strawberries and raspberries growing in the garden. During the winter, my mother sometimes bought tinned fruit and, for several years, I believed that the tinned fruits were artificial and made in a factory! You can't blame me because they taste so different to the fresh fruit!

Sigrid

My daughter believed that as bees made honey, ants must make marmite.

Linda

My whole family have persuaded my niece of 4 1/2 that brussel sproats are green sweets and yorkshire puddings are "pudding"! Well...she eats all her sunday lunch!!!

Abby

Having grown up in Wisconsin (a cold northern state), I thought that limes were lemons picked early. Now living in California, I have made friends here who also believe that ... STILL ... and they are natives!

kobekko

when i was about 7 at a family barbecue i was really curious o find out what part of the animal a sausage came from. as you can imagine my cousuns told me the "truth" and i refused to eat a cows weiner again.

simon

I remember searching a box of Triscuits for a cracker with elaborate toppings like on cover of the box
(cheese,olive, tomato etc.) and being disappointed that the only ones left inside the box were plain dry crackers.

clayfrk

My mother-in-law used to tell my daughter that if she ate dry stuffing mix her tummy would swell up and she would explode.

dobbo

My Nan used to say that if you ate rice pudding every day you would live till 100.

Jayne

I was told by my lying sod of a mother that if I didn't wash behind my ears that cauliflowers and potatoes would start to grow there - I'll never forget the time - after a rather vigorous (and swampy) 5 aside football match, she removed a whole baby cauliflower (what I now realise was a frozen cauliflower floret - the joys of sleight of hand) - and took the credit for preventing my ears from becoming a garden allotment.

Simon

I used to think that when popcorn was popping a giant war was happening inside of the pop corn bag.

My friend used tot hink that there was a leprichaun inside the bag and he would get so mad he would pop

Eric

my grandmother used to tell me that if you ate rice pudding everyday you would live to be onr hundred years old.

sue

I was convinced all through my childhood that the backbone in a sardine was actually its teeth!

Heather

In an effort to ensure that my sister and I ate all the rice in our bowls, my mom would tell us that the amount of rice left-over in our bowls will equal to the amount of freckles on our future spouses. Not having been exposed to freckles at that time, we both ate every, single piece of rice dutifully. Funny thing is I still can't leave any rice left-over comfortably even though I think freckles are cute.

4-Strings

When i was about 9, I watched a documentary about rural Italy, in which Spaghetti was seen to be hung on tree branches to dry - For the next 5 years or so I mistakenly believed that Pasta grew on trees...

DJP

My dad and I convinced my 11 year old sister that buffalo wings come from baby buffalo, that when they are babies their wings fall off and voila! buffalo wings

Kat

When I was a child my Grandma told me if I threw food on the fire I was feeding the devil

Anthony P.