When I was little my grandfather told me the pulp in orange juice was fly wings. I lived in Hawaii so everyday at school I would catch as many flies as I could and pull their wings off so they couldn't put them in the orange juice anymore. I remember having flies running around my desk before they eventually died because I had pulled off their wings, but it was better than having to drink them in the juice.

Lisa

I used to call orange soda "Zook pop" because it reminded me of the orange leotards that the Zooks wore in Dr. Seuss's book "The Butter Battle Book"

Will

when i was a kid i thought that when i drink a cup of tea the colour of my pee comes darker :P

laimoonah

when I was little, I called coke and pepsi "Black Juice"

can I have a refil on the black juice?

I used to think that apple juice was beer and I'd drink it all the time and pretend to be drunk.

Dee

I was shaking a bottle of apple juice one day, and my sister told me that if you shake apple juice, it becomes poisonous. I got so scared because I had taken a drink before that and I thought I had just poisoned myself and I was going to die.

Naive Little Sister

When I was younger I used to believe that whenever I would drink Kool-aid that huge Kool-aid "ohh, yeahh!" guy would jump through my wall. So I never drank the stuff.

Jonseie

Me and my cousin had these cups, and we convinced ourselves that when we put water in the cups we could make it taste like anything we wanted. so for instance we would say "this will taste like mint!" and we convinced ourselfs that it actually tasted like that lol this went on from ages 7-10 lol

Lizz

I used to think when you drank Pepsi in the winter it would make holes in your stomach. That's what my dad told me ages ago to discourage me from drinking so much of it, even though my mom drinks a lot of it. I can't even fully convince my 20-year-old self that this isn't so.

BKred

I use to think that coke and pepsi were the same and that the company just got tired of just having just one colorful can...

tinkerbell1232

this isn't wat i did it about my cousin.
you know how the orange juice boxes say From Concentrate sometimes??well my cousin (when he was little)would always look at the carton and wonder where concentrate was.

crusader

Not my belief, but I caused it.

I work at an after school care centre. There is a water cooler in the room, which is available to children, staff and other adults to use whenever they want. It's a standard model with a little container under the taps to catch any water. It needs to be emptied every now and again.

One child was pushing the lever on the tap, just to fill up the container, so I told him that if the container gets too full and overflows, it gets into the electronics of the dispenser. Because we were in an old building, the electrical system wasn't that great, and the water would go from the cooler to the circuits, knocking out the power to the whole building.

The child backed away immediately! I can't believe I made it up on the spot.

Child care guy

A friend managed to convince me that the layer of browngoo that form on top when you let hot chokolate cool caused cancer..
I carefully removed this for many years befor it hit me that it couldn't be true..

Kitty

I used to believe that the reflection at the bottom of cup of liquid was a crocodile waiting to gobble me up.

Aaron

i used to believe that the slower you poured milk into coffee or tea, the more milk you would be able to get into the cup

Nigel Myles