One day as a child, my mother and I were sitting down to eat in a small diner. I ordered a grilled cheese sandwich which came with a pickle. I picked up the pickle and asked my mother, "Mommy, what animal do pickles come from?"
A childhood belief about gherkins

others believed things like this
- I used to believe a pickle was a smaller version of the cucumber.Anon
- I used to believe that grilled cheese was called 'girl cheese,' and only girls could eat it.— Paige
- I used to believe that Mother Nature was The wife of God. She was the mommy and he was the daddy. — Dawn
- That blue cheese was made by scraping mould off bathroom walls. My mother actually told me that.— sandee
- When you ordered small fries they were just shorterAnon
- My mother told me that if I picked my nose it would turn into a pigs trotter!— Lynne S :o)