I used to believe that you HAD to eat ice cream after a meal. My dad used to say that as it melted it filled the cracks between the food already in your tummy - so that you wouldn't creak as you walked!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that as I ate food, I filled up, and that once I filled up completely, I would die. Anon
- When I was a kid I heard that the Beatles did acid and I wondered if they melted from it.Anon
- "Yooce cream, ice bean, we all scream for ice cream!"
This song was always stupid to me.— Shirley B. - My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon
- My dad told me that ice cream vans only play music when they have run out of ice cream. Anon
- My dad would tell me that if the ice cream van was playing a tune it meant that he had no ice cream left. Duh!Anon