My sister and I thought that white people were vanilla and black people were chocolate (like ice cream). My mom always had to shut us up in the store when we said "look, chocolate people!" (I was very young....) But hey, we were vanilla and wanted to be chocolate.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I used to believe vanilla were albino chocolate.— Alexa
- I used to think that vanilla was the absence of chocolate, not its own flavor.— Gen
- I used to believe that black people were white people dipped in Chocolate. That's what my dad told me...— Steve
- I used to believe that vanilla wasn't a flavor. It just didn't have chocolate in it!— Andrea
- I used to ask my dad this: "Dad, are black people made out of chocolate?"— Ai
- When i was little i used to think black people were made out of chocolate.Anon