food: general

To get me to eat my food my mom assiged qualities to each food. Spinach - made you strong like Popeye. Carrots - made you see good in the dark. Peas - made you hear good.

I thought swiss cheese came from the moon.

My mother told me carrots would improve my eyesight, so I took that to its logical conclusion, which was of course that eating enough carrots would give me X-ray vision. My mom put a stop to that, though, since another thing I've seen on this page -- that your skin turns orange if you eat too many carrots -- is true. It happened to my older sister, and it's really more of a sickly yellow.

I used to believe that vanilla flavoring would taste as great as it smelled!!
Judy

When I was young, I hated salmon with a passion. So every time mum cooked it, she told me it was scottish chicken that our cousins had given us. I found out the truth 3 years later!

I used to believe that cabbage was lettuce that had grown up.

My mom put a warm soda in the freezer for me to get it cold quick. My sister told me to watch out because if you left it in too long it would explode. I ran for my life out of the house, thinking that the can would explode and kill us all.

My Daddy used to tell me that if I ate cooked carrots, it would "put hair on my chest." I said, "Daddy, I don't want hair on my chest. I'm a girl!" To this day, I still don't like cooked carrots.

After watching a very tongue and cheek comedy bit made to be a sppof on BBC Documetaries, I thoughyt spaghetti grew on trees until I was 22 years old!

when I was a child I had this fascination with french fries and ketsup. So much that I didn't care how you really said the words..as long as it sounded close people usually got your point right? . After walking into the door of my favorite childhood restarunt I'd happilly grabb my mom or dad and say " Daddy/Mommy....Free Fries and Cat Sh*t!!...PEEEEZ??". My Dad thought it was a riot!

When I was very small, one Thanksgiving, I had to go out on an emergency trip with my dad to buy a gravy boat because ours broke. I asked him what a gravy boat was and he told me it was a little boat that floats in the gravy, and when it goes bad, the boat sinks. I believed that until I was about 12 or 13.

As a young child I used to believe that when meat was served for dinner it was only sick animals or ones that had died from being old. I finally discovered the truth when on a road trip i saw a truck full of lambs and quizzed my parents about them. They told me that is what we eat. I can honestly say I was horrified at the thought of eating heathly animals.

I used to think there were American restaurants in China where Chinese went and asked for forks to try them, just like people try chopsticks in Chinese restaurants.

my mother told us if you ate carrots your eyes would become pretty and your eye sight would get better. my brother never ate carrots when he was younger and he has glasses and so do my two sisters, i always eat carrots and i have prefect eye sight???

When I was a kid, I associated everything with food. Toys. Books. Music. Movies. Furniture. You name it.

EVERYthing reminded me of food.

On the show "Captain Kangaroo," I always knew that the one guy's name was "Mr. Green Jeans," but it didn't matter. From the instant I first heard his name, he was "Mr. Green Beans" to me.

Oh, and you know that gentle glow of sunset on a deep green lawn?

That's green beans drenched in butter. Always has been. Always will be.

I thought "hors d'ouevres" was pronounced "horse dee-overs," until my Mom set me straight at about age 10.

She laughed and laughed at that one.