When I was a kid, I used to think that corsages and boutonnieres were edible because you had to put them in the fridge and they looked like cake flowers.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- I used to believe making a cake from scratch meant using a box mix rather than buying a cake from the store.— EZ
- i used to think glitter was so awesome and edible. i liked having shiny teeth.Anon
- My grandpa told me that edible part of the watermelon was blue until you cut them open. Anon
- A friend of mine thought that some olives grew with red edible pits (pimentos).— HA
- I used to believe that all dessert was birthday cake.— David
- when i was 4 i thought an earthquake was an earth cake!— chardog