My sister used to tell me that at night her and her friends would go to the grocery stores and pee in the pickle jars and that's what made them green. I believed that from the time i was 8 until I was 11.
A childhood belief about gherkins

others believed things like this
- I thought brown paper grocery bags would fit more than plastic grocery bags.Anon
- I used to believe a pickle was a smaller version of the cucumber.Anon
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty
- I convinced my sister that chocolate milk was made out of Keebler cookie elves, she believed me for a month— Rainbow Steel
- I used to believe green houses were made of icicles, because that is what they looked like from the road. Anon
- I thought the Boogie Man was made of boogers-all green and slimy.— Boo