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When I was a kid I'd always hated Kool Whip, so it was no trick for a friend to convince me that Kool Whip was made from whipped beef fat. Imagine my embarassment when years later I was telling my in laws about why I wouldn't eat it and even went so far as to get a tub out of the fridge to read the ingredients, which of course included absolutely no beef fat.

Cynthia

As a boy, during school dinners, I really used to enjoy the turnip that was regularly served with our meals.
All the other kids hated the stuff, but I couldn't get enough of it, and regularly used to finish off their unwanted portions.
For some reason I ended up telling my mother about this, and - because she didn't like the thought of me eating off other kids' plates - she told me that turnip was well-known for stunting the growth, and that schools were encouraged to serve it by cunning parents, so that kids wouldn't outgrow their school uniforms too quickly.
This certainly put me off the vegetable very quickly, and for years afterwards I believed this to be gospel, and would casually inform other people about the dangers of this growth-stunting root vegetable.
It wasn't until I was about twenty - and my height had stayed stubbornly at five feet no inches - that I casually observed to my mother that perhaps I'd been warned too late about the turnip after all. It was then that she shamefully admitted her deceit, and I enjoyed my first serving of turnip in years!

Carl Hollingsworth

'Girl Cheese Sandwich'. Sadly, it wasn't until I was 20 years old looking at a restaurant menu that I saw the printing 'Grilled Cheese Sandwich' and let out a big "Ohhhhhhhhhh".

KC

I was in a sandwich shop and heard someone order a BLT. I thought he'd ordered a DLT and that it was named after the DJ Dave Lee Travis.

Stacey

I used to believe that the K.F.C. bucket on top of the pole had real chicken in it, only larger pieces and wondered where they got the large chicken.

David

I saw the signs that said "beer on tap" and thought adults just needed to walk in and tap their fingers on the bar to get a beer.

Len

I used to think that chocolate ice cream was made when black people washed their hands in vanilla ice cream

TomG

The Colonel Sanders logo as seen on Kentuky Fried Chicken signs just shows the colonel's head and a little early american style bow tie under his chin. Only I always thought the bow tie was actually a little stick-figure body that his oversized head was attached to.

tim

When I was a little girl, I believed that the orange cheese crackers that come in the packs with peanut butter were made out of monarch butterfly wings. I even explained the entire process to my younger sister.

DryadDreams

mother always said when we were young that if we don't finish our dinner, that the angels would cry, and i really did believe that

eve

Grandma told me if I ate while standing up that I would get fat thighs. She was right! She also said that if I ate toothpaste I would go blind and lose my hair. She was only partially right with that one.

Miss Laura

When I was very little, I used to believe that bacon came from the tail of a pig because it was curly!!

Audrey

My grandma used to tell me that if I ate raw sugar I'd get worms in my stomach. My older cousin who I looked up to, even agreed with her.. so I think she got the same story when she was my age.

I guess I didn't care very much, because in order for me to stop eating the sugar, they switched the sugar and salt jars on me. Bleh.. I don't think I've ever eatten raw sugar since. XP

Krista, Pa

When I was a kid I was a dinosaur-finatic. My parents used to call chicken legs "dinosaur legs" for me to eat them.

Krista

When I was in nursery school, a girl told me Jello shook because there was turtle inside. I believed her. I knew that it was illogcal but why would she lie to me? I spent two years in nursery school trying to see the turtle. I never saw one. I still check occasionally-- why would a female lie to me?

Jim from Elkins Park