My mom always told me that oranges had lots of vitamin C in them and for some reason I thought that the white stuff on the inside of the orange peel was vitamin C. I thought that you had to eat that part to get the vitamins.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a vitamin was a small animal
only recently I have found out that it is not true... :)— Sylwia - I used to belive that if I ate orange peel it would expand in my stomach and blow me up.— Paul
- I usesd to believe that eating orange peel would give you worms. so used to eat it anyway out of spite.— troy
- I thought "Orange is the New Black" was about wearing orange to funerals.Anon
- When I was a kid I thought all the wrestlers on tv had oranges under their skin to make them look muscular :)— Anonamoose
- I used to belief that the crusts on bread had more vitamins— mims