Until I read something on this very website I honestly thought that vanilla WAS just the absence of chocolate...not ti's own flavor.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- I used to think that vanilla was the absence of chocolate, not its own flavor.— Gen
- I used to believe that vanilla wasn't a flavor. It just didn't have chocolate in it!— Andrea
- I used to be believe that vanilla ice cream was the "healthy" flavor.Anon
- I used to believe vanilla were albino chocolate.— Alexa
- I thought that cold was an actual, positive force and not just the absence of heat— terberous
- My sister thought that "Ice, Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice was actually "US Navy".Anon