When my husband was small, he asked his father where spaghetti noodles come from. His father told them that macaroni's grow in fields in Italy and that spaghetti is extracted from the inside of the macaroni stalks.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think shell macaroni was sea shells.— Don Northrup
- MY SISTER TOLD ME THAT CANNED SPAGHETTI WERE REALLY WORMS THAT'S WHY THEY WERE SO CHEAP...I BELIEVED— CATHY
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.
- I used to think it was illegal to eat spaghetti if you were not Italian— Anthony
- That baked beans were made of pasta! Spaghetti is?!Anon
- I used to believe that spaghetti grew on trees, based on a pasta commercial from the 70s.— Dianne