food: general

I used to eat my meals more slowly than my brothers and cousins so they would all be out playing while i was stuck at the table until i finished eating. I would rather be out playing of course, so i would tell my mom that i was full and that she had given me too much food. She would then tell me to open my mouth as wide as i could and then make a big show of looking down my throat and inspecting the inside of my stomach. She'd say, "I see plenty of room down there." I believed her and grudgingly finished eating before i went out to play.

I used to belive that hamburgers were infact called "handburgers" because you ate them out of your hand :D

My older sister had me convinced that noodles grew on trees, but that rice was man-made...

Anyone remember the old "Cookeen" lard ads? I firmly used to believe that if I ate some of this I could actually float. I had all these great fantasies about what I could do if I ate enough of the stuff. I pestered my mum for ages to buy some and couldn't understand why she wouldn't!

When eating a meal, my mum would check my corners (the little space under your shoulder), there was always space for a pudding!

i didn't eat very much as a child and so my dad told me that toast only done on one side was 'chinese toast'.
this immediately gave toast a whole new perspective for me. i then ate as much as i could.

I was led to believe that steak was really made of children, and that if I didn't eat it, that I would be turned into steak myself. I'm 23, I still dont eat the stuff. aces to my father and his parenting skills ;)

I used to beleive 'Lemon Sole' was a fish cooked in Lemon :-)

I used to believe (along with thousands of other kids probably), that if you eat enough Ready Brek you would emit an eerie orange glow.

I eat loads of the stuff and then sat in front of the mirror checking. When no orange glow appeared, I'd just go to the cupboard and make another bowl.

i used to believe (untill about a yr ago actually) that glacial cherries were made out of seaweed.

My dad told me long macaroni grew on bushes and that spagetti was the thing left when you drilled the whole in the macaroni

My friend when aged 5 was told at a drinks party to pass round a bowl of 'penis' to other guests by her older brother. They were in fact peanuts.

At the age of four I decided that I wanted to be a vegetarian, so my parents told me that all meat came from animals that died of natural causes. I was also told that liver was a vegetable and that it was only called liver because it resembled the organ in question. I believed this until I was about ten...

My parents used to tell me that eating all my dinner would make me big and strong, and that when you go to the toilet, your body automatically does away with anything that's bad for you. I ate more than anyone else and now I'm a fat biffer.

I believed Popeye when he said spinach made him strong. Yuk Yuk Yuk