My pre-school class was going on a field trip to the potato farm, and my dad told me to look for the potato trees. I was firmly convinced that potatoes grew on trees until the bus pulled up at the farm. Boy, did my dad get an earfull when he got home from work.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.
- I use to believe that potato chips were made from potato bugs. — Kayla
- my mum used to tell me that it wasnt the ice cream man it was the potato man selling potatoes.meany!!!!— x[k][t]x
- My older sister had me convinced that noodles grew on trees, but that rice was man-made...— Trusting little brother
- My dad once told me that every potato we had ever eaten was grown in his ear.— Shirley B.
- In my youth,I was always convinced that my chocolate easter eggs came from my uncles chicken farm!— Jamsie