food: general

When I was little I was told that carrots were good for your teeth, so every time I ate carrots and would rub them over my teeth like I was brushing. I was convinced it gave me whiter teeth.

When I was young, I always believed that when I ordered a fish sandwich at McDonald's (or anywhere else) they actually had to take the fish out of a pond in the back of the restaurant and cook it.

My aunt would always tell me that eating pinapples would make my eyebrows grow, my little brother too! We believed her, and always ate as many pinapples as we could, so our eyebrows wouldn't dissapear!

I used to believe that inside popcorn were tiny men who hated the heat. So when you heated them up they would get so mad they would pop. And for that reason I wouldn't eat popcorn because then I would be a cannibal and I couldn't believe that anyone would eat a tiny blown up man.

Before I could read, I believed "macaroni and cheese" was "Macaronian cheese," a way of preparing cheese, originating in Macaronia.

I used to believe that pretzels were made from wood....

I used to believe that if I ate pumpkin, I would change into Cindrella. So I was always ate pumpkin.

When I was little I was eating an apple when my mother asked if I had washed it, I replied no and she went completely nuts yelling DON'T YOU KNOW THE WASH APPLES WITH INSECT POO! For years afterwards I was fanatic about washing fruit. When i was 18 I was telling my boyfriend off for not washing his apple because of the insect poo polishing on the outside, everyone laughed at my stupidity. When I yelled at mum later she denied all knowledge of ever saying they used insect poo as polish!!!

I could never understand why there was such a thing called "beast stew." I was 12 twelve years old before I finally realized that it was actually called "beef stew."

I used to believe…

That the frying vats in the fish and chip shop went all the way down dep into the seaq and the fish would be trapped in them and be fried for our dinner and that the little black marks still left in the potato chips were the nibbles left there by the fish beforfe they were caught

My daughter came home after having her lunch at her friends house for the first time.She declared that her friends family must be very poor because when her mother was making them both Burger and Fries she didn't have real fries but had to cook an other type made from peeling and chopping up a potato .
I thought this was really funny.

One day in church the priest read us the passage in the Bible where Jesus curses a fig tree. I got it into my head that all figs were cursed, and when one was packed in my best friend's lunch box, I ran screaming towards her, snatched it out of her hand, and threw it into our school pond. When I told my friend that all the figs were cursed, she replied that I must have cursed all the goldfish in the pond, and I felt very guilty!

when i was younger, i went through a stage where i would only eat food that came out of our vegetable garden. in an attempt for me to eat meat, my parents would wrap meat pies in foil and bury them in the garden. i was none the wiser.

i used to think that eating carrots would make your eyes glow in the dark

I used to believe that paprika was dried chicken blood because that is what my dad told me when I was about 5. I didn't find out it was red pepper until I proudly raised my hand in Home Economics Class in middle school to tell the whole class that it was dried chicken's blood.

My dad told me that carrots were good for your eyesight, and that if I ate enough carrots I'd be able to see through walls, like Superman, and I believed him.