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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Fit-Manufacturer7281 on 2026-07-22 17:21:33+00:00.

When I was like 6 my family lived with my aunt and 2 cousins who were both significantly older than me. I remember one time during dinner we had asparagus and one of my cousins told me that we don't eat the top parts of the asparagus because theyre poisonous. I was a naive little kid and this cousin didnt prank me often and was very nice to me so i believed her and ever since I have cut the tops off of asparagus. Until last night.

When I was having dinner with my family which was porkchops, stuffing, and asparugs. Well as per usual I cut the tops off of my asparagus and ate them a few minutes later my dad asks me why I havent eaten all of my asparagus, I tell him I did and that the tops are poison with a stupid amount of confidence. My entire family proceeds to laugh thinking im joking since I usually do, once they realized I was being serious they were confused on how I thought that. I explained to them how my cousin told me they were poisonous.

I am 19 and for the past 13 years I thought aspargus heads were poisonous.

TL;DR my cousin made me think asparagus was poison and I lived with that as fact for 13 years