When I was small and in the bath my mum used to clean out my belly button ' To get rid of the potato seeds'. I hoestly believed this (potato seeds in the BB) until halfway through A level biology.
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- I use to believe that potato chips were made from potato bugs. — Kayla
- Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.— angelsheep
- If you don't eat Potato Croquettes in under 1 minute they explode.— Sarah
- My dad once told me that every potato we had ever eaten was grown in his ear.— Shirley B.
- When I was little I used to believe that the brown potato chips, you know the burnt ones, were worm infested.— Eric Rustman
- I thought rice was just another way to prepare a potato, like mashed or fries.— Me