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When I was younger, my mom used to make some really fantastic split pea soup. Although up until about the age of 7, I thought she was saying spit pea soup, and I would get very disgusted that there was spit in it, but would eat it anyway because it was so good. I also though that grilled cheese sandwiches were girled cheese sandwiches, and once I asked for a boyed cheese sandwich!

Hannah

Not really my own, but I witnessed it first hand. :-)

I was in the produce section at the grocery store and I overheard this family (Mom, Dad, son - about 10 or 11, and daughter about 6). The mom told the little girl to put something down and when I looked up, the little boy was eyeing the eggplant his sister was holding. He asked his mom what it was and she casually replied "It's an eggplant." The boy got this REALLY confused look on his face and then asked his mom "It makes eggs?!?" I just smirked at the mom (and she at me) when she saw me listening to the conversation.

Marc

I wasn't very young when in a conversation with many people older than I. We were talking about different vegetables when someone mentioned okra. I said, "isn't okra a fish?"

I thought that okra, a long, stalkey vegetable was an asian-like cod type of fish.

haha.

Anon

When I was little my mom made dinosaur cookies. One time a dinosaurs head broke off. I was like mom you chopped off his head! She said no no. He just laughed too hard so it snapped. He's alright.

Beto

When I was little I used to think about french fries. I though that the ends with the potatoe skin on the ends were really snake skin.

JERRY

I used to believe that if I ate enough carrots, my eyes would turn blue! (My mother used to tell me this to make me eat more vegetables.)

Kathy

I heard of turtle soup when I was little. I thought tomato soup was turtle soup. I thought it should be green but I reasoned that it was red because turtles had red blood. I loved tomato soup and I thought it was neat that I was eating turtles.

Anon

As a kid, I thought the job of the slaves in the Old South was to make butter. They did this by peeling the bark off a tree trunk, looping a rope around the trunk, and pulling the rope back and forth between two people to work the butter off the trunk.

(Although maybe margarine *is* made that way...)

S.L.

i used to think when you ate, the food just sat in your stomach untill little rats ran in and ate it up. weird i know!

taylor

My dad told me that Jello, which i still think is very delicious, is made out of horse hoofs, back when i was eight. I still don't believe him.

Zero

I used to believe that nacho cheese was an actual kind of cheese, as in how cheddar, Swiss, pepper jack, etc. are all kinds of cheese.

Danny Mew

I used to believe that if you ate too much cheese you would turn into a mouse. My cousins only told me that to make me stop eating cheese because I definetly ate too much cheese.

Anon

When i was around 3 i was very smart for my age and my mom basically made me a wierd little kid. She taught me never ever EVER eat dessert before your real food and i thought it was the law and so at my aunts wedding i saw her eating wedding cake and i ran up to her screaming NONONO u cant do that u have to eat real food FIRST and THEN you can have junk food!!! (i did the same thing at lunchtime in kindergarden, no wonder i was unpopular)

T.L.

When I was little my dad told me that if you drank too much coffee it would make your skin turn black.

Anon

That donuts where healthy!!!

Stephanie!!

My little cousin recently asked me, "Cinnamon? (pronounced sin-a-mawn) Is that a kind of Pokémon?"

Randy

I used to think that Boysenberry pie was "Poisonberry pie". I didn't want to eat any until my mom told me what it really was. My sister then asked why it couldn't be called "Girlsenberry" instead of Boysenberry.

Anon

when i was little my mom used to tell me if you eat food before you go to sleep you will have nighmares

michelle

I used to believe that the green stuff in fried oysters was spinach, which relates to another Popeye-related belief.

DarkSock

In order for my mom to get me to eat certain foods she would assighn them different names. She would call tomatoes cherry tomatoes and since i love fruit i would eat them. She also called fried egss bubble eggs. I think I was about 15 and we went to a resturant and someone asked me what kind of eggs i wanted and I said Bubble eggs please. I was totally emberassed when I found out that Bubble eggs were really fried eggs.

Drea