when i was little my mom used to eat jolly ranchers alot...but whenever my brother or i would ask for one she'd tell us we couldn't have them cause they were "mommy candies"...i don't think i even figured out they had another name until i was 9.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- my friend thought that the film 'the hulk' was about the jolly green giant from the sweetcorn adverts.— patticus
- My husbad used to believe that green candies gave him a headache. He will not eat them to this day.— Ginger
- i used to believe clouds were actually made out of cotton candies and vanilla ice-cream.— velvetryn
- I used to think that orangutans were monkeys who ate alot of oranges.— Lina
- When I was young, I said to my mom, "Mommy, make the sun go down!"Anon
- I used to believe that Mother Nature was The wife of God. She was the mommy and he was the daddy. — Dawn