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Visiting some friends of my parents at their lake cabin, I went for a walk in the woods with their daughter (a couple years older than I). We found this little reddish object in the road, and she told me it was the heart of a dead animal. She pointed to the holes in it where the "veins" entered, sounding very authoritative, as if she'd seen plenty of animal hearts lying in the road.

She had me grossed out for a few minutes until she finally laughed and admitted, "It's a peach pit, dummy!"

Katrin

I used to believe that everyone in the world, when making a sandwich, would only butter one piece of bread. I carried this with me (and made sandwiches this way) until I was about 17 when I just happened to be making a sandwich while I was talking to a friend... he asked me.. "why are you only buttering one piece?" to which I replied "what? thats how sandwiches are made!" I thought it was just a strange thing that my nan did that I picked up on... but no. No one I know does or ever did the same thing.
(I still butter one side)

Anon

Because of the ad slogan, "there's always room for Jello," I believed it literally; that Jello had a magical power that made it possible to be able eat as much as you wanted to. It was the perfect dessert. Jello is strange so it made perfect sense to me.

Keith L

I used to think that chops(maybe you call it "porksteak"?)were grown in fidleds like famers grow cereal.Because the bones seems somewhat made of wood,and the edge of it is quite trimed. But I wondered why it was so different from others, and i wished to inspect how did they plant such delicious thing.

ZhaoWenqian

When I was in secondary school studying home economics ("food technology" to more 'modern day' students or just plain 'cookery' to older ones), we had to prepare a full breakfast. I got the mistaken belief that I somehow invented hot buttered toast.

Well, I had never seen it before and therefore it was a 'new invention' for a 12 year old... But I am *so* glad now that I didn't actually reveal it to anyone...

Richy C.

I used to believe that when I ate a bowl of cereal that had a commercial i had seen, whatever happen in the commercial would happen to me. Like Fruity Loops, i thought a jungle would appear all around me and I would meet tucan sam.

Ben

To get me to eat my tomato soup, my mom told me it was "Porky Pig Soup", since she made it with milk and it was kind of pink. Since I loved the color pink and Porky Pig, I ate it up!!

Missy Rae

I'm not a very hairy person, and when I was 17 a friend told me that if I rubbed raw garlics on my face, it would help me grow a thick, strong beard and moustache.

And there I was, with my face all red and swollen, and smelling for a couple days, and of course, no beard and moustache.

Sammy B

When I was little, my mom used to give me pea soup. Since it was green, I was sure it was made with turtles. It might sound nasty, but I loved it

Sammy B

I thought the 70's spoof "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" was actually scary. I was terrified of tomatoes for years, and even more terrified of one coming out of the kitchen sink drain because of the initial scene in the movie.

danheretic

I had my mom buy a box of lucky charms because I thought the little leprechaun would be inside.

Catherine

when i was little my mother used to tell my that egg noodles were called frog noodles because kermit the frog ate them, because i was in love with kermit the form

Anon

the moment i realized that spaghetti and sauce were two separate things, that was my first childhood epiphany. a natural skeptic, though, i insisted on observing my mother prepare it because i couldn't believe those brown twiggy things were actually floppy red spaghetti.

captain bleep

i used to believe that if i didn't eat all my vegetables that those thrown away would get lonely. if i didn't eat them all, i would leave an even number, so each would have a companion if they got split up.

leslie

When I was about three, my older brother would point at the cookie jar and ask if he could have two. I therefore thought that a cookie was called a "two".

Ross

i used to believe that bananas have feelings too!

Ste Mono

I used to believe that if I didn't eat all of my green beans, the beans left behind would be sad, because their family was in my tummy, so I would force myself to eat them all so that they wouldn't be separated.

Jenn

At school, when I was 6 or 7, we used to get a whole kiwi in our lunch and I would be the only one out of my friends to eat it, so what my friends told me was if I keep eating them I would get hair on my chest.

Terdlicker

My parents always called the brown rubbery thing in the middle of mussels the "froggy" so I thought it was a real frog that got trapped in the shell. One day I was eating a mussel fritter and it had a froggy in it - I could have sworn it jumped out at me (making a break for it's freedom)! It gave me such a fright that I wouldn't eat mussels again as a child.

Tania

A family friend said he could wiggle his ears because he ate a lot of carrots. I faitfully ate my carrots but somehow I could never get my ears to move.

Lisa T.