food: general

When I was a toddler I was terrified of bananas, and would scream if I saw a whole one. I think this was because I grew up in the 60s, and I though they were bombs. They only way I would entertain eating them was sliced up in milk or a sandwich.

When I was to young to actually grasp the concept of pronounciation, I said "hamburger" as "Ham-booger".
This led me to believe that people working at fast-food restaurants picked their nose constantly to make the products they were selling.

My mom told me and my brother that if you eat during a movie, you won't be able to hear what the charactors are saying. We believed her and never asked for popcorn or candy at the movies for years. Then I noticed that other people seemed to be able to eat and listen at the same time.

One day, my family and I were eating peanuts when my brother's friend came over and started staring. "Do you want some?" we asked. "You guys eat those things...I thought they were made for elephants!"

When I was little I used to believe that when my mom put broccolli on my plate that it was a forest and that I was a giant. When I ate the broccolli I thought that i was eating a forest and that I was killing the environment.

I used to believe yeast could make bread rise because it really was salt with bubbles inside.

When at the grocery store, I used to believe that when an item said "fat free" it meant the fat in it was free of charge!

My grandfather told me the round green fruit in canned fruit cocktail were "geezleberries." For years, I only had a mild curiosity as to why I never saw any raw (i.e. not canned) geezleberries, and my family always jokingly referred to canned grapes as "geezleberries", ha ha ha. Only I wasn't in on the joke. I was well into my twenties when my younger sister perceived that I really thought they were called geezleberries and convinced me (with some difficulty) that they were grapes.

This belief has to do with my kids and my sister. My kids always loved eating tortilla shells by themselves. When they were very small, they were each eating one while my sister was visiting. I made a sarcastic remark to my sister and she commented back to me "Oh, go hug a bear." (She was making a polite remark to me because my kids were in the room. One day the kids came to me and asked me for a "hugabear." I had no idea what they were talking about. After I had them show me what they were talking about, I realized the connection they had made that day. For years after that, I just let them call tortilla shells hugabears.

i used to think the "twin" cherries were earrings, and i'd hang them through my actual earrings and walk around like that all day.

My grandad had a cockateil and one day we'd gone there for tea. I was about 13 at the time. My mum was talking about sunflower seeds and what they tasted like, so curiosity got the better of me and I took one out of the bird's seed and ate it. Immediately after my parents told me very seriously that I'd turn into a cockateil! I didn't believe them at that moment and shrugged it off.. however, that night when I got home, I was drinking some water from a mug and happened to look at the reflection in the bottom of it. I could see I was forming a beak and my eyes were on the side of my head like a bird. I screamed and dropped the mug and started crying. My alarmed mum asked me what on earth was wrong - I told her and she told me not to be ridiculous and that she was just joking about me turning into a bird. I had to reassure myself by looking in the mirror..

Thankfully, to this day - I'm pretty sure I'm still human.. however, I'm still expecting the day I morph into a bird!

Yesterday my 12 year old daughter informed me that they now make popsicles for adults only. I told her that popsicles were for everyone, not just kids. Then I realized what she was talking about. The "shards-o-glass" anti tobacco commercial? She thought it was a real commercial for real "adults only" popsicles.

When I was a child I used to think potassium came from potatoes.

I was led to believe that steak was really made of children, and that if I didn't eat it, that I would be turned into steak myself. I'm 23, I still dont eat the stuff. aces to my father and his parenting skills ;)

My mum told my brother that beetroot turned your wee pink. To this day he still won't eat it

Years ago in the early 70's I believe Ronald McDonald was at every McDonald's in America. I convinced my little brother and sister of this. We went to our very first McDonalds and of course no Ronald. They cried the whole time. I was older but I wanted to cry too.