I used to think that salt and pepper cooled down food. This was evident beacuse people would try their food, say "This is hot. Salt and pepper, please."
A childhood belief about salt

others believed things like this
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- i thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva
- When I was a little girl I thought that if you put salt on your food it cooled it off! lol What — Darlene
- I used to think that pepper was only used to mark where you'd put the salt.— BK
- I never used to understand why salt was bad for you, but pepper wasn't.— Lara
- when i was a lil kid i used to think salt was dead lice that people but on there food and i never knew why
— jessica diamond