When I was a child, my parents used to tell us that if dropped bread or toast landed butter side down, it was lucky! It wasn't until I was a parent myself that I realized this was simply a technique to avoid wasting food.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you put toast in the refrigerator, it turns back into bread. — sambot
- I Believed that somthing took the bread from the toaster and replaced it with toast.— Shukun
- I was told that if you dropped food on the floor, the devil kissed it. — Teresa
- when i was very little, i thought that all girls must do ballets, and that i was lucky who wasn`t forced to. — little miss from norway
- When I was a child I used to believe that cows gave ready butter.— Bane
- My mother told me if I ate too much butter I'd get worms. I didn't eat too much butter...— Dicky