I used to believe that pickles grew on trees. I also did not used to know that gherkins and pickles were the same thing and I thought gherkins were like gremlins.
A childhood belief about gherkins
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that pickles grew on trees and didn't come from cucumbers.Anon
- Hasn't everyone, at some point or another, believed that pickles grew on trees? I sure did.— Matt c.
- Up until the age of 21 I believed pickles were pickles, I had no idea they were cucumbers.— Jason
- I used to believe the pickles were the fingers of martians. Because of that, I did not eat pickles.— alexandre, a French student in eighth grade
- I used to think that pickles grew naturally in the sea, and that's why the water in the jar was so salty.Anon
- I thought gherkins were pickled slugs.— Cat