When I was young, I thought that *every* restaurant had professional chefs working there, making all the food from scratch. I was pretty surprised when I realized that just about anyone could be hired as a 'cook'.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when you made food 'from scratch', that scratch was an ingredient like starch.— Aynsleigh
- I thought the tip jar at the restaurant was so people could give the chef cooking tips for how to cook better.Anon
- I used to believe making a cake from scratch meant using a box mix rather than buying a cake from the store.— EZ
- I used to believe that if I scratched one side of my body I had to
scratch the other to be "even".— Greg - I used to believe that when I used up all the sheets in my desk scratch pad, I would be married.— Barb
- i used to think that you used pepper spray to cook— c-dogg