21 Food Lies Our Parents Told Us

As kids everything our parents said was gospel, we never doubted their knowledge for a second…until we got old enough to start questioning it. For some reason one thing parents seem to love doing is lying to us about food, what it is and where it comes from – why I’m not sure, I’m not a parent but it seems to be the done thing.

One that has always effected me was what my loving mother and father told me about dates. Apparently they were toe jam, the gunk you could pick out of your toes at the end of the day which was then rolled up into a date like snack which people then ate. Yes. That is what they told me, and I still can’t eat a date.

So here they are, a few of the lies parents have told their children about food:

The Classics:

Bread crusts will make your hair curly

Carrots help you see in the dark

Spinach will make you strong

Cheese comes from quarries

Haggis is an animal that lives in Scotland

Eating cheese before bed will give you nightmares

If you eat the seeds from a piece of fruit, a tree will grow in your tummy

The moon is made of cheese

If you swallow bubble gum it will stay in your tummy for years

Don’t eat fish and then drink milk, you will get spots

You can never eat a whole sugared doughnut without licking lips

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The More Imaginative Ones:

If you try a new food you’ll live 72 days longer

Chocolate milk comes from brown cows and regular milk comes from black and white cows (no, no one knows where strawberry milk comes from)

Bubble gum will get wrapped around your tonsils

Fish fingers were actually from a type of fish that had fingers and they cut them off and breaded them

Curly Wurlys were worms covered in chocolate

The ice cream van only plays it’s tune when they have run out of ice cream

Eat your cabbage or your boobs won’t grow

Children don’t drink coffee, if they do they will grow a moustache

If you eat the burnt toast you’ll get rich

The fish fingers on your plate are actually chicken sticks, just eat them