nasty food

I didn't eat french fries for 10 years once because a spider fell off the ceiling, bounced off my lip and landed on my plate when I was munching on some fries. I thought the spider came out of the fries.

Pam

When I was 3 or 4. I thought, if I eat a kernel, it will grow in my stomach.

daga

When I was 5 up until I was about 8 I used to hate eating roasts and meat with "chunkies" in it. Mum wouldn't let me have desert until I finished so I used to throw the chewed-up and spat out bit of meat under my dad's chair, I either thought it disappeared or he got the blame. A few days ago I asked my mum whether she knew I did that, she replied "Well I never swept the floor so by that time it would have been all shrivelled up!" Ewwwwww!

Kate

When looking after me and my sisters for the afternoon, my uncle told my little sister that the sultanas in the teacakes he had toasted for us were burnt bits. To this day she won't eat anything with currants, raisins or sultanas in it, and she's 24 now!

Kazzer

When my brother was little, he would refuse to eat oatmeal. Then my mom told him it was gruel - you know, what Oliver Twist eats and asks for more - and then he never refused it again, even after he found it it wasn't gruel!

Jen B

My mum told me that crackers were made out of bad little boys and girls.. and that the darker crackers were made out of black children.

Chris

i use to belive shaving cream was whipped cream.

Anon

When I was little I didnt eat puppy chow because i thought it was dog food!!

Anon

me and my sister had just watched shrek for the first time i took a stick and rolled it around in spider webs and told my sister it was cotton candy she believed me and was about to eat it but my mom came out and told her to stop it was spider webs

Izzy

when i was a kid i belived that sasuga pizza the sasuga was fish eye balls

Anon

As a kid I used to love 'Sweetbreads'. It wasn't until I was in my twenties that I found out they were actually Lambs Testicles!!!

Dave

If I was bad as a children mum said: DO you want me to hit you. I always thought that meant that she would give me bad food.

Elin, Norway

when I was a kid, my mother made me eat prunes, spinach, and even mushy carrots! I once tried, unsuccesfully, tried to hide all my food in my glass of milk. It was disgusting because it floated and made my milk taste horrible!

Surril

I used to believe that cat-food was food for people. I called it choco-bits because it was brown. :-)

Anal

As a child I knew that tapioca was made from frog's eggs, in spite of my mother's insistence that I was wrong.

Anon

When I was young, my aunt was trying to get me to eat my peas. You know the sweet peas that come in a can, the mushy, gross ones. Anyway, she told me that if I ate my peas they would stack one on top of the other and make me tall. I still can't eat peas to this day, because the very thought of it just grossed me out and ruined them for me forever.

Jena

i used to beleive that granola bars would give you diareah.

Anon

I used to think Alfalfa was birdsbrains

Emma

My neighbors belief:

My neighbor's mother and father used to tell her, her two sisters, and her brother that pork was a dirty meat. I'm not really sure why they think that, but to this day not one of them has touched a piece of pork. My neighbor won't even let her husband or 2 boys eat pork.

now 13

I used to wonder why grown-ups like to eat food that is nasty. I never saw liver and onions served at any birthday party I went to.

Klayne P.