OK, for th LONGEST time, i used to believe pickles just grew. i had no idea they were cucumbers. NO IDEA. i had seen cucumbers, i had seen pickles, but in my head, they had NO relation. so naturally, things like pickled eggs were made from the pickle plant. so i had no idea that pickles were actually cucumbers!
A childhood belief about gherkins

others believed things like this
- Up until the age of 21 I believed pickles were pickles, I had no idea they were cucumbers.— Jason
- I used to believe that pickles grew on trees and didn't come from cucumbers.Anon
- so guess what i learned the other day: pickles came from cucumbers. yes indeed.— jenna
- I used to think that pickles grew naturally in the sea, and that's why the water in the jar was so salty.Anon
- I used to believe the pickles were the fingers of martians. Because of that, I did not eat pickles.— alexandre, a French student in eighth grade
- Hasn't everyone, at some point or another, believed that pickles grew on trees? I sure did.— Matt c.