I used to think that when you made food 'from scratch', that scratch was an ingredient like starch.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I scratched one side of my body I had to
scratch the other to be "even".— Greg - I used to believe that when I used up all the sheets in my desk scratch pad, I would be married.— Barb
- I used to believe making a cake from scratch meant using a box mix rather than buying a cake from the store.— EZ
- i thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva
- 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.