One time in early grade school, I remember a classmate of mine pulled the head off of a grasshopper and out came were some of the insides attached to the head. He told me that was chewing tobacco. I believed that for a long time and still think of it whenever I see chewing tobacco on display in the stores. Yuuuckk!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I thought for some reason that chewing tobacco was REQUIRED for Major League Baseball players.— Jeff
- I used to think that Tabasco Sauce contained tobacco, and therefore was actually "tobacco sauce."
Anon - I used to believe that if I swallow chewing gum, a rubber tree will grow on my head!— Farry Aprianto
- Right when I started school, I believed that you could get kicked out of school for chewing gum. — Rheeb
- I used to believe that big grasshoppers would spit tobacco at you if you got too close to them.— Uni
- i used to think tabasco sauce was tobacco so i'd always be like "mom! dont put that in our food!!"Anon