Dark brown Smarties were poisonous.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- I was told as a child to eat the dark parts of a banana, because it was really brown sugar.Anon
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon
- I used to honestly think that Smarties were medicine.Anon
- when i was a child i used to think that my belly button was for storing smarties— GemSue
- i used to think that the red colourin gon Smarties was made from Beatles blood. In fact, I still do!!— pigsy
- My mom always used to tell me that brown eggs came from brown chickens.— Taylor