My sister and I used to try to convince our mom to buy us Smarties by telling her that eating Smarties will make us smarter.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- I used to honestly think that Smarties were medicine.Anon
- Dark brown Smarties were poisonous.Anon
- when i was a child i used to think that my belly button was for storing smarties— GemSue
- i used to think that the red colourin gon Smarties was made from Beatles blood. In fact, I still do!!— pigsy
- I used to think that I was smarter than adults. Now I know kids are smarter than adults in many ways— Marshall M
- I used to believe that eating too many tomatoes could make you pregnant.— Mariah