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When I was young my older cousin convinced me that as the youngest person in the family, I was supposed to eat underneath the table because that's where my food would taste best. Being an only child, my parents humoured me rather than starting a fight because I was cleaning my plate every night. When we went to a restaurant even, I would have to have my food given to me under the table. My parents tell me there were lots of strange looks and questions as they took a plate of food off the top of the table and passed it underneath.
Imbisilly
When I was a kid, my parents used to drive by a local luncheonette which had signs all around the upper floor of the building advertising what they sold. Since there was no grammar on the signs, I was amazed at "Malted Milk...Sandwhiches" and always wondered just what they must have tasted like?
Russ (New Jersey)
top belief!
When I was 3 or so my parents, without getting into lengthy explanations of Vitamin A, told me carrots would help me see in the dark. That night, well after bedtime, I snuck into the kitchen and stole a carrot from the fridge. My parents caught me in my dark bedroom trying to use it as a flashlight.
Emma
My dad once told me that the juice from grapes would fix an 'owie. Once he tried it on my cut finger and I really believed it worked!
Lauren
My father never liked onions so we never ate them. Conesquently whenever we ate at McDonald's and I had my Juniorburger I thought the little pieces of onion were rice.
Emma
When I saw people from some african countries on TV who were starving and their children had those typical huge stomachs, they said in the program that the kids were undernourished - I thought that someone nourished them from down under, that's why the stomach...
zoe santini
top belief!
I used to believe that i had to store food in my room for the winter like the squirrels. I would collect cereal, crakers and canned soups. This was pretty handy when mum send me to bed without supper.
Stephanie
I used to believe that the picture on the outside of the cereal box was of everything inside... that strawberries came with the cereal - funny thing is, now they finally do!
Christina
I used to think when my mom was offering me a grilled cheese sandwich, she was offering a "girl cheese" sandwich. So I always wondered what my brother would eat - I had never heard of a "boy cheese" sandwich.
Tracy
When i was little i would not eat sweetcorn, so my mum told me it was not sweetcorn but yellow peas
i explained to my 5 year old brother about how burgers came from cows and sausages from pigs. after a couple of hours of what must have been hard thinking. he came back to me and said:
"i know how they make chips"
"ok"
"well they get a yellow dog..."
nick
I used to believe that all dessert was birthday cake.
David
If i didn `t eat my dinner I would become ugly when I grew up. My neighbour told me so, and since she was ugly I belived her.
Elin
i used to believe that food that had "best before" printed on it, was a product that they used to make better in the old days. never quite understood why they decided on the decrease in quality, and still being honest enough to print it on the package.
øyvind
We believed that if we didn't finish our meals we would get the remaining food for enemas. Needless to say, we always ate everything.
John in Jax, FL
When I was very young,on Thanksgiving, my parents would always give the "butt" part of the turkey, but tell me that it was the "turkey's nose" and that it was given to only special people. And I was all excited. It would be a couple years later that I would "put two and two together" and remember that turkeys have beaks and get their heads cut off before it's cooked. So it couldn't have been a "nose"...and my brother cheerfully told me I was eating TURKEY BUTT...and I was all upset.
JILL
top belief!
I thought when foods were considered "kosher" it was because a rabbi brought the animal into the house and read the bible to them.
Jill
I disliked onions. My mum used to buy special 'turnip onions' and for years I believed this was a real type of vegetable!
Emma D
I believed for years that haggis were real animals who lived on mountains and had 2 long legs and 2 short legs, which meant that they could only face one way on the mountain side, and if they ever turned arount they would fall off.
rob.
My mother tells a story about yes/no bananas. You could wish on your banana, slice off the bottom, and if the black smooshy part looked like a "Y", your wish would come true. Try it. They all look like "y"'s.
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