I'm hispanic. All my family has very light skin (like white people). Well I was the darkest (and I'm not very dark). I used to think if I ate chocolate I would get darker. Need less to say I didn't eat chocolate not even chocolate milk, but I did try to drink plenty of milk, I figured I will get lighter or stay where I was. I'm lighter now in my 20s. and I still don't eat chocolate.
A childhood belief about skin

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- I used to belive chocolate milk came from brown or chocolate cows.Anon
- I used to believe that chocolate milk came from chocolate cows.— Scott
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- I used to believe chocolate milk came from brown cows and regular milk came from black and white cowsAnon
- i used to think chocolate milk came from brown cows and normal milk came from white cows Anon