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I used to believe that french fries were stuffed with mashed potatoes... but I could never figure out how they got in there.
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I used to believe that if you soaked a raisin (or prune) in water, it would turn back into a grape (or plum).
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.
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I used to believe anchovies and artichokes were the same thing.
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.
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.
My niece used to call Marmite Falloy! Where she got the word Falloy from nobody knows
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.
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!
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.
When I was little, my first teacher told us to smash up the shell of our boiled eggs so the devil couldn't use them as a boat, but my Grandmother would tell us not to play with our eggshells, otherwise we'd get warts, I worried for quite dome time whether it was best to be warty or demon posessed.
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!
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My daughter believed that as bees made honey, ants must make marmite.
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!!!
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!
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.
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.
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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.
My Nan used to say that if you ate rice pudding every day you would live till 100.
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.
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