I used to believe whenever you drank milk, the milk would wash over your bones and which would absorb the good stuff in milk, and that's how you'd grow up big and strong.
A childhood belief about milk

others believed things like this
- Chocolate, they say, rots your teeth. I believed if you drank chocolate milk, your bones would be brown.— Dellio
- that black women breastfed chocolate milk instead of white milkAnon
- I used to beleive that milk bottles were filled with milk, directly from the cow's udder.Anon
- When we were little my sister thought if you mixed cow’s milk and water you’d get goat’s milkAnon
- I used to believe I could milk dogs like the cows. This was because I saw a nurse milk his cow.— Laurent and Alexis, French students in eighth grade
- I didn't believe that a cow's milk and the milk in the fridge were at all related!Anon