I used to believe that the French perfumed their horses. Whenever a family member would try on a perfume at the mall, my dad would remark "You smell like a French horse." It took me years to realize that he really meant 'whore,' not 'horse'.
A childhood belief about nationalities

others believed things like this
- I believe there are horses making the car go fast when people told me the horse power of a car.— Jake
- I used to believe that french kiss was something coming from France, and that only the French did it— Sasha
- I used to think that you had to be french to really taste french fries.— Not French;)
- I use to beleive that because oui (which sounds exactly like wee) mean yes in french, that poo meant no.— Toby
- a donkey is just a small horse.Anon
- I used to think that beer was horse pee. Probably because that's what my mom told me...— Kara