If I was bad as a children mum said: DO you want me to hit you. I always thought that meant that she would give me bad food.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- The lollypop man's job was to give children lollypops.
How disappointed I was when I met one. :DAnon - I thought if food said it was fat free it meant you could eat as much as you want without getting fat!— Brainhead
- I thought Maria Carey's 1998 ballad was 'I'd give my arms' instead of 'I'd give my all'.— Briony Maggs
- I thought when you got food poisoning it might someone had put poison in your food— Bootlebat
- I was convinced that children weren't humans, only adults were, children were a total different race!— Leda
- I used to think Kenny Rogers had 400 children and a crop in the field. Rather than 4 hungry children.Anon