When grown ups said my food had gone down the wrong hole if I choked on something, I believed that there was a hole for food and a hole for drink. I got confused as to how food and drink knew to go down the right holes.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- I used to believe when ordering Chinese food the food and delivery man came from China— Dave
- I thought when you got food poisoning it might someone had put poison in your food— Bootlebat
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- i use to belive if you eat to much of a food u will turn into that food Anon
- 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