When I was about 7 my next door neighbour told me that the way to find out the sex of a goldfish was that its tummy went pink when it died!!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i knew that if you ate beets your urine would turn pink and i thought if it was pink, then you could drink it.— JP
- I thought pink lemonade came from pink lemons.Anon
- Up until the age of nine, I used to think that Marmalade was made out of goldfish.— Sadie
- my brother told me rice crispies were really fish eggs we gave to the goldfish. I never ate rice crispies.— johnboy
- To clean the goldfish you put washing up liquid into its bowl.— Sev
- My mum told my brother that beetroot turned your wee pink. To this day he still won't eat it— Monica