I believed that Victoria Sponge cakes were names after someone called Victoria Sponge. I wondered what she had done to have a cake named after her.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a fish cake was a fish in sponge and coated in icing. I believed this until I was 9.Anon
- My sister used to tell me that Victorian houses were shiped from Victoria after they were built.Anon
- I used to believe making a cake from scratch meant using a box mix rather than buying a cake from the store.— EZ
- When I was very young, I believed that my parents actual names were "mum" and "dad". — Margo
- When I was a kid, I wondered why they called it "public hair" when it was so private.Anon
- I believed that the breed of dog called Boxer was called that because they could stand up and box.Anon