Having seen my tonsils I used to believe my throat was divided into two holes. One for food and one for drink. I never mixed food and water in my mouth in case they went down the wrong hole
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- I used to believe when ordering Chinese food the food and delivery man came from China— Dave
- I used to think that if you mixed a diet drink with a regular drink, it would explode. Anon
- I thought when you got food poisoning it might someone had put poison in your food— Bootlebat
- I used to think what heated the food in the pan was the boiling water, not the heat under it.— Mario
- i use to belive if you eat to much of a food u will turn into that food Anon