general

I thought that cotton candy was made from dryer lint.

I also called macaroni and cheese, black baloney and cheese.

Kelly

I used to believe that the restaurant Wataburger was really spelled and pronounced "Waterburger". That then led me to believe that they used water in the making of their burger patties which made their hamburgers taste really plain. It wasn't until my parents stopped buying me regular hamburgers that I relized my myth wasn't true.

Will

My dad used to give me a piece of dry spaghetti to chew on when he was cooking, and once he told me that if i ate it, it would swell up inside my stomach. I asked him how much it would swell and he indicated that it would grow to an inch in diameter. I believed this until i was about 18 and figured that would be impossible!

Anon

I used to believe that all cocktails contained either shrimp or crab, because of my mother making such cocktails for my dad. The meat was served in a stemmed dish, topped with cocktail sauce and eaten with a little fork. So seeing restaurants advertising "cocktails" this is what came to mind.

crabby shrimp kid

i used to beleive that whatever i had for tea everyone else in the world would be having the same as me!!!

layla lose

I used to believe that broccoli was small trees and potatoes were just soft rocks.

The Mass

My friend used to believe that the brown bruised bits on bananas, were in fact honey!! lol

F

I used to believe that shrimp boats were boats full of little people.

Carol

When I was a little girl, I used to think that if you sliced an apple and left it in the fridge overnight, it would turn into cucumber slices?

Kelly

When I was quite little, my Dad showed me a cut-out red heart, and asked me what it was. Apparently (since I was obsessed with tomatoes at the time), I came out with, "A giant tomato'.

Also, when I still lived with my Mum, she was living with her then boyfriend (who's actually the father of one of my half-brothers), who told me that, if I ate a wild mushroom and didn't tell him, I would die.
I wonder if that's why I've never liked mushrooms...

Cat

I thought that a "ceral" killer was a person who stomped on the ceral ( out of the boxes) and I would not eat the ceral because if I ate it i was a "ceral" killer. LOL ( i know i spelt "ceral" wrong! ) And i am now 12.

Jackie

I had a friend who thought blackberries were poisonous when they were red, and the poison somehow came out of them when they turned black so they were then safe to eat.

Alan, Sheffield

When I was little, I used to believe that anything that was "sugar-free" or "diet" would give you diarrhea, cause I thought the symbol used for those things looked like a toilet flushing.

Dan Phelan

I thought if you found a really long fry in your Happy Meal, you could turn it into McDonald's for money.

Whitney Sauve

I love cats! So I thought that if I ate enough KIT KAT bars that I would turn into a cat....never did work tho.

BritBrat

I used to think that germs travelled up metal cutlery, the way heat does, into your food and thatwas why we need to wash our hands.

Anon

When I was a kid, I used to believe that ever kernel of corn I ate gave me one more year of life.

I still pile the corn high on my plate to this day.

AD

When I was 5, I used to believe the soil was an ice-cream that had not been put in the freezer.

Anon

my grandma used to tell me that butter was fat so i thought it was literally fat(lard). didnt believe it was made from milk til like 7th grade.

keippi

My little brother thought that grilled cheese sandwiches were "girl-ed" cheese sandwiches and would refuse to eat them. He did however eat mom's special "boy'd" cheese sandwiches with the rest of the family.

Jualie