My hubby was told when he was a kid that ice cream had washing detergent in it. Rather than putting him off eating ice cream he liked it all the more because it was cleaning his insides at the same time!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- 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
- when i was a kid my mother told me that when the ice cream man was playing his music he was out of ice cream— Lynnzea
- "Yooce cream, ice bean, we all scream for ice cream!"
This song was always stupid to me.— Shirley B. - 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
- My mum used to tell me when the ice-cream truck turned on his jingle, it meant they had run out of ice-cream!Anon