food: general

When I was about 5 I used to take the cheese off of my pizza and put it in a pile to eat later - only when we ate at pizza hut. After a while, my older sister convinced me that if I ever ate pizza cheese on its own I would get hit by a bus next time I left the house and die.. From then on I have never eaten the cheese on its own!

When I was about 8 years old, my mom sent me to the hardware store to buy some cheesecloth. That day she made cheesecake. And for the longest time I would not eat cheesecake because I believed there was cheesecloth in it.

My Father used to tell me that if I wanted to grow hair on my chest (like a man); I had to eat lots of Vegemite (Aussie sandwich spread). I had at least one Vegemite Sandwich EVERY DAY; until I was nearly 12 years old.

When I was little my family would always tell me "eat your food there are starving kids in this world" like most families do. I started to not eat my food at all and sneak it to the garbage can so that the homeless could find it.

My father told me tapioca was frog eggs in pudding. I still can't eat it!

I remember growing up and my dad eating a special cereal that we were allowed only to eat once in a while. Mom told us the name of the cereal was "Daddy Cereal" because it was only for him. When I got a job in high school, I asked my mom to tell me where to buy it (because I was making my own money). It was simple granola - to which I am pretty much addicted. And I still refer to it as "Daddy Cereal"

When I was a child I used to believe that smurfs lived in the mushrooms. So I didn't use to eat.

When I was a kid I never ate the yellow part of eggs coz I used to believe that it will become chicken in my tommy

When I was little, I used to think "grilled cheese" was "girl cheese" so only girls could eat it. I was very confused when I saw my dad eating one.

I used to think that grapefruits contained grapes, and you got grapes by cutting the grapefruit open.

When people would say some food was made from "scratch", I used to believe that scratch was a kind of food like butter

I used to believe that all the soup in the world was made by soup dragons and harvested in a cave, like the Clangers

when i was a kid, I used to think that butterfly shaped pasta could fly and I didn't eat it.

I used to beleive that liver (as in liver and onions and gravy) was rhinocerous meat.

I used to think when my mom was offering me a grilled cheese sandwich, she was offering a "girl cheese" sandwich. So I always wondered what my brother would eat - I had never heard of a "boy cheese" sandwich.

When my sister was little she planted lolly sticks in the back garden, believing that they would grow into ice lollies.