My mom used to use a ricer to mash potatoes. The potatoes come out in a thin stream, and I thought that you cut the stream in little pieces and that's how you got rice.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believed that the clouds in the sky were floating piles of mash potatoes .— Funny Guy
- When I went to Spain when I was 7, I thought their currency was potatoes. It was pesetas.— Helen W
- When I was little, I thought that big puffy clouds in the sky were actually mashed potatoes.Anon
- I used to think potassium came from potatoes.Anon
- I used to think clouds were mashed potatoes in the sky.— Will
- When I was a child I used to think potassium came from potatoes.
— Julen Peinado Gomez