My grandma told me when I was a todler "If you eat mashed potatoes your ankles wold be prettier" and I believed her. I can't believe that I could believe such a silly thing.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I used to think clouds were mashed potatoes in the sky.— Will
- I used to believe that french fries were filled with mashed potatoes.... wonder how they got in there?— Nancy
- When I was little, I thought that big puffy clouds in the sky were actually mashed potatoes.Anon
- I used to believed that the clouds in the sky were floating piles of mash potatoes .— Funny Guy
- When I was six my sister told me Meat Pies were made from mashed up rats...to this day I can't eat a Meat Pie.— Jamie
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody