When I was younger I loved cake, but like most children, disliked coffee. So for years, I avoided coffee cake because I thought it tasted like coffee. Little did I know, that it only meant that it is a type of cake that goes well with coffee.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- 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 think it was illegal for children to drink coffee— C.W.
- I used to believe that the term "being mugged" meant someone beat someone else with a coffee mug.— Matt Thiel
- I thought you could get toffee from mixing tea and coffee.Anon
- until 12 yo i thought buying and drinking coffee was illegal when you were under 18:) — smarty
- I used to believe that coffee was tea with milk in it.Anon