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I used to believe that if you ate enough chicken wings, you'd sprout wings and be able to fly.

Anon

During school christmas dinners everyone used to get a chicken drumstick - I remember thinking what a terrible waste of the rest of the chicken it was.

Debbie

That french cut green beans were riendeer food and if you ate enough of them you would be able to fly like Santa's reindeer.

Anon

My mom told me that eating meat would make me tan. I belived this for about two years. Then one day I told my friend and she laughed and said that it wasn't true. No wonder I'm so white.

SJ

I believed that since vegetables came from the ground it was my duty to wash them, so I put them in with my mums washing. She only knew when she heard them banging around!

P

When we were little my brother loved to eat pork chops because he thought they were called Port Chops and Ports were a very rare and delicious animal because he had never seen one. He didn't learn otherwise until I told him the truth when he was in his late teens. He was rather disappointed.

Prana

When I was little, my grandmother used to be a great cook. Anytime I would eat any of her cooking, I always commented on how good it was. She always said "This is from scratch" For years, I thought "scratch" was a person. I always asked who Scratch was. When I was around 6 or 7, I finally realized that she meant scratch was another term for homemade.

Anon

I used to think eating spanish rice would make you speak spanish, so whenever I took a bite I would say "hola"

Anon

As a child I somehow became convinced that an artichoke was some sort of small furry animal, and I was, of course, completely disturbed by the jar of 'artichoke hearts' kept in our refrigerator. To this day, my family still teases me about my genuine concern for those 'poor little artichokes'.

Ellie

I used to believe that spaghetti was called "left-overs" because every time my family said we were having left-overs for dinner it was spaghetti

Anon

I used to think that mushrooms came from where the Smurfs lived and sometimes I'd wonder if anyone had ever picked up a smurf and packed it in a punnet of mushrooms by mistake and used to see if I could find one. I'd look very closely because I knew the smurfs were small!

dippingmytoes

I thought that "peameal bacon" was actually "female bacon" and that "Hollandaise sauce" was "Holiday sauce" 'cause you only have it on holidays.

e.

I use to think that muffins were just giant mushrooms and I would ask why my dad he put butter on a mushroom every morning.

Nessa

when i was little i thought that angel food cake was actuly made out of angels. lol my sister told me that when i was like 3 and i belived her! she said that it was made out of dead agels! i had night terrors about it and didnt go near ANY form of cake until i was like 9. that was when my mom told me the truth

bob the goldfish is a girl

I used to believe that spagetti grew on trees... coz my mum brought plants back in a box that said spagetti on it...

Sara

i used to think that the round bails in fields that get wrapped in the white plastic were marshmellows and that they were growing there.

Anon

I used to believe that dried cylindrical hay bails in fields was where shredded wheat came from and the frosted kind happened when the cows dropped milk on them.

Anon

When I was younger, my parents would make landscapes on the dinner plates with vegetables and I believed that broccoli were actually tiny trees. When my teacher served us broccoli for lunch one day, I looked her straight in the eye and informed her that I would not eat the little trees.

Anon

When i was a child my parents told me:

"You must eat a lot of food if you want grow and become as tall as your dad!"

And so i used to think that the food entered inside my body and when the body was full of food, the new food that i introduced, pushed the food in my head toward the top. And for this, i could became tall.

For this lore i eated as an insane boy.

Daniele

My sister used to tell me that bananas were grown straight and that they were sent to the north pole and bent by a man known as the banana bender. So when we used to get straight bananas she used to say that the banana bender didn't do his job i believed this from when I was three to six!

curt