When I was little, my big brother told me that malted milk balls were really made of dehydrated earthworms. Of course, he really just wanted me to give him all of my candy. It worked. I still can't eat the stupid things.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- I used to think that cotton candy was made from actual cotton so I never wanted to try itAnon
- I used to believe that brown cows made chocolate milk and white cows made regular milk.— andrew mient
- i used to believe cotton candy was real cotton after going to chuckie cheese and my brother told me— jennifer
- I used to believe that eating Coco Puffs with Chocolate milk would give me diabetes.— Julie
- I used to believe that the clouds were made of cotton balls— Jeannie
- I also thought that meat balls were made from testicals— Glenn