food: general

I love beef and broccoli and as a kid to get me to eat it all my mother told me that the white things in it were white carrot slices. In the first few months of dating my now wife I mentioned that there were not a lot of white carrots in a particular beef and broccoli dish, after much laughter she told me they were bamboo shoots not white carrots.

I used to believe that cookie monster actually ate all of the cookies really fast. When my parents pointed out that he would just break them up and throw them all over, I was crushed.

When I was a child, I believed that if I put my left overs in zip lock baggies that they children in third world countried from the commercial would get uncontaminated food.

I use to believe that potato chips were made from potato bugs.

I thought that McDonalds were built over underground ketchup deposits, and the little ketchup pumps went underground.

I believed that desserted buildings were full of desserts. Cute little plated pieces of pie Just sitting all over the floor of the building.

I used to believe a pickle was a smaller version of the cucumber.

I used to think that artichokes were animals because my mother said we were eating artichoke hearts.

At my aunt's house, when I was little, I was always messing aroung- touching things, playing with things, even spilling things on the floor.

One day I was playing with neat-looking, push-button salt/pepper dispenser- pushing the black button and making pepper come out all over the floor.

My aunt saw me doing this, and told me to stop. She also said that this would, as she put it, 'make ants.'

By this, I thought that she meant that all the little granules of pepper that were coming out, were going to magically turn into ants if they got left there on the floor.

When i was little if went shopping say to the Butchers or Grocers (no Supermarkets then) the meat on display or cheese etc had a price on a hefty pin stuck in it and when i watched westerns Gunsmoke or the like and the sheriff said that guys got a price on his head i believed he had a meat pin in or on his head although i never managed to see it lol

My cousin thought ribs at restaurants were people ribs.

The moon is full of wotsits.

I used to believe pretzels were salted wood.

I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.

My grandma used to tell me that if I ate raw sugar I'd get worms in my stomach. My older cousin who I looked up to, even agreed with her.. so I think she got the same story when she was my age.

I guess I didn't care very much, because in order for me to stop eating the sugar, they switched the sugar and salt jars on me. Bleh.. I don't think I've ever eatten raw sugar since. XP

I used to believe that the meat dish 'tripe' was lion.