When I was about 4 years old, my older cousin told me that the little brown spots on tortilla chips and Fritos were actually moles off off old people's butts. I didn't eat them again until I was 11 or 12.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was little I used to believe that the brown potato chips, you know the burnt ones, were worm infested.— Eric Rustman
- When I was little, I used to believe chocolate milk came from cows with brown spots.Anon
- My daughter belived that she was getting old because she had brown spots (freckles) like an old banana— lauren
- I used to believe that they got the lunchmeat bologna from cutting off dead people's butts.— angie
- when I was little I used to think that white people had pink poop (i am brown so my poop is brown)— helena muteka
- I used to believe that white people had white poop and that mine was brown because I was brownAnon