After watching a commercial for Imperial margarine and then eating some on bread I spent hours looking for my crown wondering why it didn't appear on my head with a "BA BA DA DUM!"
Also after eating a Halls I would wonder why I didn't see vapours going up my nose like on TV.
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I used to believe that a yeast infection was something you could get from eating "bad" bread.— Lauren
- i used to think that you would die if you didn't wait 30 minutes to go into the pool after eating. (^^)— cady
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody
- Picking your nose and eating it. Hey! Tastes like chicken and only half the calories— Henry the Seventh
- I didn't mind eating lambs brains when I was a kid because I thought it would make me smart.Anon