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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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When I was little, my mom made lots of spaghetti and meatballs. She told me meatballs came from a special place. So for the next few years, I thought that testicles, albeit well-processed, were in my spaghetti. That stuff freaked me out, man.
The first time I heard about people eating frogs legs I was very young and naturally horrified. I thought that all of these frogs had to spend the rest of their lives on crutches!!
when i was small, i wouldnt eat the end of bananas because i believed the black specks were spider eggs. still not sure if they are or not ;)
On April 1st, many years ago, I watched a black and white program with my sister in which Italian woman were shown picking long strands of spaghetti form "spaghetti" trees. We tried in vain to convince our parents that this was a fact, after all we'd seen it on TV.
My brother and I sent his kids out shopping for snacks - "buffalo chips and sheep dip". The three boys aged 5-10 hopped on their bikes and peddled from store to store. We know because at each store they would call and say the people had said they were out but they should try another store and they wanted permission to go there. We died laughing until their mom got home.
I used to believe that snakes bit the ends of banannas when they grew on trees, so I would never eat the ends.
My 4th grade teacher (Mr Walton)told me(and the class)that spagetti was grown in large fields.Farmers would start with little seeds((he held up some rice) and that the grew in rows along the ground.After failing to grow my own,I stuck some spagetti upright in a container of dirt and brought it to class.He winked and said he never saw pasta grow straight up like that..lol
My son is in his high school science class.I reminded Mr Walton of the "pasta test" and he remarked"it did get you to thinking about things now didn't it?" He was right!
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I used to believe that when you boiled an egg it went soft then hard and if you boiled it to long the yolk went soft again.
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mum used to tell us we were having "snakes pie" for dinner. Of course this was really steak & kidney pie, which we wouldn't eat because we didn't want to eat kidneys! So I actually thought "snakes pie" was really made of snakes, until I found out we don't even have snakes in New Zealand!
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i used to believe only catholics used to eat good food ie meat and veges and that non catholics ate fish and chips all the time
As a child I loved bananas but not the bruised bits so to get me to stop taking it apart and making a mess my parents convinced me that the bruised bits had actually turned into sugar (and I loved sugar) I still like a bruised banana
At 8, my parents told me spagetti grew from the ground. A very believable explanation backed up by the crop of spagetti they grew in the back garden for me. I would come home everyday to inspect it until it got too tall and floppy to grow straight up. We then picked it, dried it and ate it for dinner.
I used to believe that pink lemons were used to make pink lemonade. I once saw them in an ad for a particular brand of lemonade and believed ever forth that they existed and I just couldn't find them anywhere.
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My mum used to tell me that there was a banana factory where bananas got bent before they were sold. She even pointed out a building where it apparently was!
I was told (at age 5) that a 'Haggis' was a 'low flying scottish pig', I held onto that belief until i started highschool and could research the topic myself (age 12) to this day looking for a 'Haggis' in the sky a long standing family joke.
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I used to believe that the meat dish 'tripe' was lion.
I used to believe that you only used tomatoe sauce on chips and things if they were hot, ie to cool them down. It wasnt untill i got my first boyfriend and we ordered chips and they were 1/2 cold and he put tomatoe sauce on them, and i growlled him saying they were cold enough! Sure enough he explained to me that people actually like the taste of Watties!
My mom told me that hamburgers came from cows, but I wasn't so sure. I wanted to know how the big round patties got out of those skinny little utters.
In church they where all ways mentioning "The bread basket". I imagined and believed in my stomache, the food I ate fell into a bread basket. It then went somehere and dumped the food and liquid out to process it thru my body. I did wonder how the liquid did not drip out, unless there was a liner in the basket.
as a kid i thought that rasins were called "O.G's". the reasoning behind that was once i was eating rasins in front of the tv, tossing them all throughout the room when my mom came in and said out loud, "oh jeez".