I used to think ketchup was specially made to cool down your food. One day i somehow figured that it was actually to add flavour- i was around 5- and i proudly told everyone thinking i had made a fantastic discovery and no-one knew that before!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- When I was little, I thought ketchup came from ketchup trees— cristina
- I used to believe that tofu was actually called "toe food" and that it was made out of toe-jam.Anon
- I used to believe Mexican food was made from real Mexicans!— Holly W.
- I used to think that when you made food 'from scratch', that scratch was an ingredient like starch.— Aynsleigh