When I was about three or four, my mom always told me that chocolate was bad for you. So I thought it was created in a lab by an evil scientist who purposely made it taste good just so he could trick kids into eating it and making them unhealthy.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that eating chocolate laxatives made you stronger,don't ask me why.— pat
- as a young child i thought poo was brown from eating chocolate and pee was yellow from drinking apple juice!Anon
- my dad told me that hershey park was made completely out of chocolateAnon
- I used to think that someone having dark-coloured skin was a result of eating too much chocolate.Anon
- I used to believe that eating Coco Puffs with Chocolate milk would give me diabetes.— Julie
- The first time I saw a black person (I was about 3), I thought he was made of chocolate.— Ronne