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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

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

Anon

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

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.

Anon

My mum tells me that I stopped liking peas the day I found out that my elder cousin didn't like it. I can't really understand it, 'cause today, at 20, I still don't like the taste. At family dinners we always leave a small pile of green peas behind.

Marita

Sliced bread. I used to think that the when sliced horizontally (for sandwiches etc) the top half with the curved 'shoulders' was female and the square bottom half was male.

Stephen