My mom used to make a meal that she would put green beans and small canned nude potatoes in. As a joke, she told us that we were eating green beans and ostrich eggs. We believed her for years, asking for green beans and ostrich eggs.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe 'three bean salad' was an extremely small entree because it contained only three beans.— queeneve
- I used to think people were called "human beans".— Dave
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty
- I used to call the rays of light from the sun "sun BEANS". That's what it sounded like to me.Anon
- That baked beans were made of pasta! Spaghetti is?!Anon
- I used to think that
"The land of make believe"
was
"The land of baked beans."— Baked Bean!