food: general

When I was younger, there were protests against destruction of the rainforests for cattle ranching. So somebody told me that 'they cut down the rainforests to make McDonalds beefburgers'. For years I thought that burgers were made of wood.

One time we went to a restaurant, and my dad took my sister (who was about 4) to see the lobster tank. She asked him how the restaurant could tell the girl lobsters from the boy lobsters. THinking fast, my dad said that the boy lobsters had blue rubber bands and the girl lobsters had pink ones.

She announced this to her class at school the next day. And she believe it well until she got into high school.

i used to think 'grilled cheese sandwich', my favourite lunch, was actaully 'girl cheese sandwich' which meant it was only for girls

when I was young, I was told that Cornish Pasties were made so that you could get a whole meal into a small package that you could drop down a Cornish mineshaft. I finally realised it would break when it hit the bottom when I was nineteen.

While eating mince and taties, I'd sometimes come across a lump of meat where it had stuck together during cooking. I thought that if you swallowed these lumps without breaking them up, they would turn up in your scrotum as replacements!

When i was 10 my bro told me that if i ate one banana i would become a monkey and two i would become a gurrilla.
i actually got up in the night and went to the mirror to check.

When she was little my niece couldn't pronounce "brocolli" - she used to say blockery - so she called it trees. Now she is 14 and we recently went to a restaurant for her birthday. She was very tired as we had been out all day. When the waitress asked if she wanted vegetables she wearily said "have you got any trees?" The poor girl didn't know why we all fell about laughing but then the waitress said "green or white?" (brocolli or cauliflower) My niece was chuffed and asked for both!

I used to believe that Rose wine was a mixture of red and white wine!

I used to believe treacle came from pigs. This was an unfortunate cross-pollenation of two kitchen conversations I was listening to at the same time: my grandmother telling me that every part of a pig was usable, even the head and cheeks - and that you could get something (I think the real answer was brawn) by boiling down pigs cheeks. This overlapped with my mother muttering something about treacle, and - no pun intended - it stuck. I thought, until I was about 16 actually, that treacle was made by boiling down pigs cheeks.

During the war my granny lived in an evacuated childrens home in the middle of a forest, since there was nothing but trees she used to think that bread rolls grew on trees.

My mom told me that eating meat would make me tan. I belived this for about two years. Then one day I told my friend and she laughed and said that it wasn't true. No wonder I'm so white.

My brother and I used to believe that eating sardine tails would make us turn into Daleks. We still ate them sometimes though and carried on the belief despite the lack of evidence!

When I was younger, my mother was making lobsters for dinner (they were still alive before she threw them in the boiling water)and everytime she threw one in, she made a low screaming noise and she says "Did you hear that? The lobsters are screaming because they're in pain" I actually believed that it was them screaming once they were thrown in the water because she never told me that it was her making the noise. I am now 24 and to this day, I listen for the lobsters when I see them getting thrown into the water.

My dad always used to tell me that the bubbles in pop came from bugs in the bottom of the bottles that were trapped in there at the factory. He also used to say that anchovies(on a pizza) were monkey brains.

I believed that Brussel Sprouts were baby cabbages....they are just so cute!

my parents used to tell me that if we left food on our plates it was 'a mouthful for the devil' so we were too scared to leave any in case the devil came and took it!