when i was about 7, at girl-scout camp, i burn a marshmallow while sitting around a campfire and my troop leader told me that people in canada pay more for burnt food.
of course i believed her. mrs.barton was never wrong...
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i used to think if i would eat spicy food i would burn and die— Bill
- My sister believed the pork in pork and beans was marshmallow...and would always "fight" us for it.Anon
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin
- my grandma told me not to eat pizza coz the "brown squiggly" stuff there arent burnt cheese but WORMS!
— Mimi - When I was a little girl I thought that if you put salt on your food it cooled it off! lol What — Darlene