When I was little I used to think you would get an electric shock if you ate the Shock Tarts candy. So I made my sister eat them first.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- I used to think that bath beads were candy until I bit into one! What a shock that it was soap!— ~K~
- i believe that using gold give electric shock at the time of lightning.so i didnot wear gold when rain starts.— asi18
- When I was little my parents used to tell me and my sister that carrots were "orange candy." — Nancy
- I used to believe when I was young that Poland was made entirely of candy.— Jenn
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- When I was 10, I thought that nausea was called Lack-O-Candy Disease. My mom made it up— Teddybearhaha