As a child I loved bananas but not the bruised bits so to get me to stop taking it apart and making a mess my parents convinced me that the bruised bits had actually turned into sugar (and I loved sugar) I still like a bruised banana
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I was told as a child to eat the dark parts of a banana, because it was really brown sugar.Anon
- I thought that a "sugar daddy" was a father who let his kids eat all the sugar they wanted.Anon
- The moon was actually either a sugar cookie or a banana, depending on the time of the month. — Jessica Aspra
- adding too much sugar to foods would give you "sugar worms"...
Anon - I used to believe that when cordial drink said 'sugar free' that you didnt have to pay for the sugar in it!— Grace Lyon New Addington
- My mum told me that if I ate sugar from the sugar bowl I'd get worms.— QueenB