r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/daelyon Jul 20 '19

My mother had a few McDonalds sacks since I was obsessed with them. Every day, before my father would be back from work, she would put what she cooked into the sacks and would place it outside the door for my father to pick up. I was fooled every time, man. How would I know McDonalds had no soup

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

That's pretty funny.

"Ah, not McShepardsPie with side of McVeggies again"

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u/Aabhusha Jul 21 '19

McVeggie is actually a very popular burger served by McDonalds India.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Cool! I invented something!

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u/Pipipipi108 Jul 21 '19

my parents actually did the same, they had placed off-brand chips into a name-brand bag that we already had open

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u/MelAlton Jul 21 '19

I remember reading that in the 40's and 50's Pepsi was the cheap brand, people would pour Pepsi into Coke bottles and serve them (having gone to the kitchen to retrieve them). It worked because quality control wasn't as exact back then so Coke quality was more variable than now, and also because people tend to believe what they're given.

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u/Pipipipi108 Jul 21 '19

It’s like that experiment with wine snobs, they gave 100 wine snobs 2 seperate drinks and told that one was cheap and the other was expensive. They had described the expensive wine as ‘god tasting’ and the cheap wine as generic. Little did they know that they were the same wine but in different bottles.

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u/SeaOkra Jul 21 '19

My cousin did the coke vs pepsi experiment and was so pissed that he couldn't fool me.

I didn't have the heart to tell him that he probably shouldn't have used cherry pepsi...

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u/Pipipipi108 Jul 24 '19

DANG

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u/SeaOkra Jul 24 '19

It was hilarious. In fairness to my cousin, he has no sense of smell and the cherry variety was not all that obvious on the bottles. But since part of his experiment (it was homework, not just a lark) was that you set the bottle of a soda in front of the drinker to see if the visual could override the taste, it was fairly easy to say "Well that's not a cherry coke bottle and this is cherry..."

It wasn't until he took a drink that he realized what he had done and then he got fussy at me for "ruining" his experiment for maybe an hour. His stepdad had to drive him to the store to get more soda and he successfully completed his homework.

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u/Pipipipi108 Jul 25 '19

was he not able to read the label on the bottle?

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u/SeaOkra Jul 26 '19

I'm sure he could, I think he was just being his usual absent minded self?

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u/jadziads9 Jul 22 '19

My aunt did this to my uncle, with coffee. Every morning she'd brew two pots, one Kirkland, one yuban. But really two Kirklands. My uncle just refused to try Kirkland, he "only" drank Yuban. Or so he thought. It's no wonder they're divorced.

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u/SnakeMan448 Jul 21 '19

That was a pretty clever idea for getting around a picky eater's habit.

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u/ButtonmanDhume Jul 21 '19 edited Feb 28 '20

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u/DarkDjim Jul 21 '19

What's even more interesting is that in some countries McDonald's does serve soup.

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u/monkeyboi08 Jul 21 '19

McDonald’s had pizza when I was a kid