My dad told me that if I ate pickles before I went to sleep I would have really bad nightmares, but I have always loved them ever since I was little, and still do.
A childhood belief about gherkins

others believed things like this
- Up until the age of 21 I believed pickles were pickles, I had no idea they were cucumbers.— Jason
- I used to believe the pickles were the fingers of martians. Because of that, I did not eat pickles.— alexandre, a French student in eighth grade
- that pickles were octopus legsAnon
- so guess what i learned the other day: pickles came from cucumbers. yes indeed.— jenna
- when i was a kid, i used to believe pickles were made out of frogs!
weird.
lol— xoxo**~Kelly~**oxox - I used to think that pickles grew naturally in the sea, and that's why the water in the jar was so salty.Anon