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I used to believe that french fries were stuffed with mashed potatoes... but I could never figure out how they got in there.
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When my husband was small, he asked his father where spaghetti noodles come from. His father told them that macaroni's grow in fields in Italy and that spaghetti is extracted from the inside of the macaroni stalks.
I always thought my animal craker box was refilled by magic fairies. If I left the empty box on the counter, magically the next morning it would be filled again. My parents keep the large container hidden, I didn't know you could buy them in bulk!
I only descovered that macoroni was a kind of pasta when we made some in a cookery class when I was about 13. until then, I'd only ever heard of 'macoroni cheese', + so I assumed it was some kind of chewy cheese...
When i was little, i was convinced pepperoni came from horses.
Lol...well...all the other farm animals had meat...ham and bacon and pork was with pigs, beef and steak was with cows, chicken was with chicken..so naturally being a child I just assumed that they killed horses for pepperoni.
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I was sure that in a Cereal box there were strawberries inside. My mother would just put some before I wake up!
Before I could read, my sister used to tell me I was saying "Burger King" wrong and that it was really called "booger King" because they make everything with boogers in it.
I used to believe that my body was empty, totally hollow and that when I ate the food just piled up inside. So when I'd tell my mom that I was too full for more dinner I would explain that I still had room for ice cream cos it just went all melty and filled in the cracks.
I thought cereal fell from the sky when I was around three!
I dont remeber what cereal it was, but it had commercial where it fell out of the sky if you ate it. So, of course I needed to buy some! I asked my mother to by tons:P I was so upset when nothing fell on my head.
i always thought that if you swallowed an orange pit it would grow out of your head, i once was in deep distress for a whole weekend coz i swallowed one, much to my older sisters delight
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When my family ate melon I would leave the skins segments outside along with a couple of used teabags - I thought I was feeding the Moon.
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I used to believe that if you ate peanut butter, your insides would stick together and you would not be able to poop.
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My friend used to think that if you squish white bread and rolls, it makes them less fattening.. she still squishes her rolls before she east them.
When I was about 6 my Nanna told me, my sister and brother that we couldn't have fish from the chip shop until we was 14 beacuse it was illegal and she would be taken away by the police man, for years I wouldn't eat fish, only when I got older I found out that she simply couldn't afford it.
I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!
I used to believe that foods like tomatoes, onions, and lettuce were "grown up" foods and that I wouldn't like them until I became an adult.
When I was about 3, I used to love stickydate pudding. But I used to think that it was called sticky TAPE pudding and so now now everyone in my family calles it that.
i used to think that kiwis were monkey eggs
I used to think sausages were vegetables, and they grew in the ground.
I used to believe brussel sprouts were holy because they had a cross marked in the top when mum boiled them!
I used to believe that my mother invented peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.