When I was about 5, I had a packet of Skittles and my sister whose name begins with an 'S' told me that you were only allowed to eat the sweets with your initial on. So she went through the whole packet and ate every single sweet...I only realised later that every Skittle has an S on it.
A childhood belief about sweeties
others believed things like this
- I used to think that you could get arrested for having a packet of Rizla's that had bits torn off the top...— Patch
- When I was a kid, I used to think that tablets were sweets for grown-ups Anon
- I thought that the Chewit wrappers were different flavours as they were different colours like the sweets— Helen
- i believed that little men sat in the back of vending machines and pushed the sweets forward.— rachael
- Mom told us that if we didn't eat every single bite of our veggies at dinner time, we'd get colon cancer.Anon
- My mum told my older brother that dogs weren't allowed in London.— Fiz