I was 4, sitting on my grandfather's lap, when he asked me if I wanted a Ding Dong. I was relieved when he gave me the foil-wrapped snack cake instead of what I thought he meant.
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
- My Dad told me that the big bales of hay wrapped in plastic sitting in the fields on farms were cow eggs.Anon
- i once believed that foil in the chocolates are part of what we should eat.— angela
- When I was little my dad told me that if I chewed on aluminum foil I would pick up radio stations. — Alex Allegretto
- when i was 4 i thought an earthquake was an earth cake!— chardog
- I thought that Devil's food cake was invented by Satanists!— Dietrich Corby