My mother never made mashed potatoes when I was a child. The first time I saw them at a neighbour's, I must have gotten a process wrong somewhere. since I asked my mother why she didn't add Spic and Span to her potatoes like the neighbour did!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think clouds were mashed potatoes in the sky.— Will
- I used to believe that french fries were filled with mashed potatoes.... wonder how they got in there?— Nancy
- When I was little, I thought that big puffy clouds in the sky were actually mashed potatoes.Anon
- When I was a child I used to think potassium came from potatoes.
— Julen Peinado Gomez - My grandpa and mom both used to tell me that if I didn't clean behind my ear that potatoes would grow there. — Bryan M.
- I used to think potassium came from potatoes.Anon