food: general

When I was a little boy I loved peas and I wouldn't touch corn, so my parents told me they were split peas(in danish they are called yellow peas), I had heard of them, but never seen them and since corn was yellow I believed this untill I was 6 years old

Having grown up in Wisconsin (a cold northern state), I thought that limes were lemons picked early. Now living in California, I have made friends here who also believe that ... STILL ... and they are natives!

I used to believe that you could always tell who was a "big" kid.
Big kids could always eat the apple all the way around BEFORE it started to turn brown!

I always thought that the Kellogs Special K advert which said, "For grown up people who'd rather not grow anymore.." really meant that it would stop you getting any taller. I loved the stuff but was always wary of stunting my growth. I'm 6'3" tall now (but fat)

When I was a kid I used to believe that there were 4 tubes or pipes that food went down when you swallowed them. The 4 tubes corresponded to- what was then- the 4 food groups. So when you choked on a piece of food and it "went down the wrong tube" it was because a vegetable must've went down the dairy tube...

When I was little, my parents used to put cucumber cubes in my tuna sandwiches. I didn't like cucumbers so they told me they were sugar cubes. I believed them until the age of 10 when I asked a friend's mom to put sugar cubes in my tuna sandwich.

when i was little, me and my sister used to think that pepperami's were flying food. Whenever we ate one, we would stand on the sofa and 'fly'...i swear one time i actually did stay in the air and nobody is going to convince me otherwise!

i used to believe that at mcdonald's when my mom ordered "two large fries" i thought she was talking about getting two really big fries in the container.

When I was young, I heard someone from Colmans (the UK mustard maker) say on the radio that they made their money from the mustard people left on the side of the plate. For years, I thought that there was a complete network of people collecting up the leftover mustard and sending it back!

i used to think eyeballs were like made of the same material as hardboiled eggs!!!!!!
and then with actual hardboiled eggs i thought when i would open the middle that a baby bird would be sleeping in it. so i was afraid of eating them, or at least the yolk part for that matter.

When I was about 4 my friend had the chicken pox. I went to her door to see if she could come out and play. She said "no" because she ahd the chicken pox.(I never had the chicken pox, I did not know what they were) At the same time she was eating a bag of chips, and I thought they were called Chicken Pox. I would always look for the chips called "Chicken Pox" when I was in the store. I obviously never found any.

When I was 6 a girl in the school cafeteria told me that I wasn't getting any vitamins from peeled apple slices, because the vitamins were really the dots on the apple peels!

This one time we were camping, and it was windy outside because there was a storm, and my mom told me that there were tomatos under the trailor jumping up and down shaking the trailor... i believed her and though the tomatos were going to hurt me.. (havent ate tomatos since)

When i was 5, i thought that bananas were monkey poop.

I used to belief that mangoes were blue, because of a children's book where they were painted that colour. i was horrified when I realized that they weren't! I'm still searching, there must be some out there somewhere...

I used to believe that all meats were chicken. I called everything chicken. :)