food: general

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.

The Colonel Sanders logo as seen on Kentuky Fried Chicken signs just shows the colonel's head and a little early american style bow tie under his chin. Only I always thought the bow tie was actually a little stick-figure body that his oversized head was attached to.

I used to think that mushrooms were meat.

In an effort to ensure that my sister and I ate all the rice in our bowls, my mom would tell us that the amount of rice left-over in our bowls will equal to the amount of freckles on our future spouses. Not having been exposed to freckles at that time, we both ate every, single piece of rice dutifully. Funny thing is I still can't leave any rice left-over comfortably even though I think freckles are cute.

I believed that if someone burped, sneezed or coughed near me while I was eating, the germs would float to my food. I would frantically cover or fan my hands above any "sticky" food, like spaghetti or meatloaf, cause the germs would get stuck to it as they floated by. But if it was something dry, like bread, I could just brush the germs off the top.

i thought that "aromatic" duck was actually "asthmatic" duck.
poor thing...

When we were little, each of my three sisters and I all went through a faze of think we were eating "Palmers and cheese" insted of parmesan cheese on our pasta. I always wondered what palmers were and how they mixed them into the cheese. I think I was imagining something along the lines of a palm leaf, I was quite disappointed when I found out the truth.....

i used to believe that my heart was actually made up of the red apple skins. When in the supermarket, i tried to pick the apples with the most red on. I was upset when I was told to get cooking apples, coz they were green

i used to think that if you ate 14 carrots, your intestines would turn to gold (I blame this entirely on the human body magic school bus game and ms. frizzle)

When I was little I noticed there were vegetables shown in my library books that we never ate at home: asparagus, rhubarb, spinach. I assumed that because we were Jewish, and we didn't eat these things, they must be Christian vegetables. Later on, when I brought this up to my parents, they had a good laugh and told me those were just the vegetables they didn't like.

I used to believe…

...that ham came from hamsters.

When I was a child, my father told me Kentucky Fried Chicken would keep the chickens in the revolving bucket. It made sense: there was a large hatch under the bucket that -- obvious to me at age 5 -- was used to retreive the birds. Why did the bucket spin? So it would make the chickens dizzy and easy to catch if they tried to escape.

I used to believe that cattail(bulrush) plants were where hot dogs came from. I tried cooking one before I realized that hot dogs do not in fact grow from plants.

I used to think that grilled cheese sandwiches were "girl cheese" because mom always offered me them, and that if my dad were ever to get one it would be a "boy cheese"

When my sister and I were very little, my mother wanted to emphasize to us that you do no chew and swallow hard candies because she didn't want us choking. So she called them "suck-ons". Unfortunately, she never bothered to tell us later in life that NO ONE ELSE calls them this. To this day (I'm 24) I have to still retrain my conditioned brain to remember that they are "hard candies" and not "suck-ons".

I used to believe that a salad bar was just like a three musketeers bar but green and when you bit into it it would have carrots and lettuce and veggies in it. I believed this till i was like 10 and i'm now 14. I'm a dork.