When I was 5 or so, my Dad told my brother and I that our nipples were ham, and that if we were caught somewhere without any food, we could peel them off and eat them.
Fortunately, I never had to try that.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a football ref's flag was a banana peel.Anon
- I used to believe that if you drove over a banana peel the car would slide off the road.Anon
- I used to belive that if I ate orange peel it would expand in my stomach and blow me up.— Paul
- I usesd to believe that eating orange peel would give you worms. so used to eat it anyway out of spite.— troy
- I thought nipples disappeared at a certain age because Barbie never had them.Anon
- I used to believe that ants had the smallest nipples in the worldAnon