when I was little we used to go to Italy and my parents used to tell me that the man yelling "gelato" (=ice cream) on the beach was selling fish.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- i used to beleive the ice cream man was a fish man - becuase i hated fish.— jordan
- my mum used to tell me that it wasnt the ice cream man it was the potato man selling potatoes.meany!!!!— x[k][t]x
- My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon
- When I was little, my parents told me if i ate my fish sticks, I would become invisible.— Jake
- I used to believe that a fish cake was a fish in sponge and coated in icing. I believed this until I was 9.Anon
- Burned fish fingers ment the fish was from the black sea.Anon