I thought "spam" and "sperm" were the same thing. What confused me most was that it was sold in tins at the grocery store and that you could recieve it over the internet.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- for some time I used to think that at a drug store people really sold drugs.— NEO_ryu
- When I was little I thought "Pencilvania" was a huge store that sold pencils and nothing but pencils.— Tim
- I thought brown paper grocery bags would fit more than plastic grocery bags.Anon
- My father told me that Spam was a mix of sparrow and ham. I believed this for years lol— Tara the Terror
- My dad told me SPAM was made of Squirrel, Possum, and Mice YUM YUM — Suzanne
- I used to think for a very long time, that spam was left over animal parts with salt.— Ebony