My grandpa once told me that if you get burned smear butter on it and it will taste better.
I'm still terrified of getting burned to this very day.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when a person was "fired" from their job, that they were literally burned at the stake.Anon
- I thought firefighters were really "firefires," and burned houses down insted of putting them out.Anon
- I believed butterflies taste like butterAnon
- Burned fish fingers ment the fish was from the black sea.Anon
- My mother told me if I ate too much butter I'd get worms. I didn't eat too much butter...— Dicky
- My Grandpa told me if I picked my nose I could accidentally pull out my eye. — Jan St. Louis