Until about five minutes ago, I did not know that pickles and gherkins were the same thing.
I thought gherkins were like gnomes.
Learn something new every day.
A childhood belief about gherkins

others believed things like this
- I thought gherkins were pickled slugs.— Cat
- Until just a few seconds ago, I thought gherkins were beans or something weird like natto...Anon
- 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
- that pickles were octopus legsAnon
- so guess what i learned the other day: pickles came from cucumbers. yes indeed.— jenna