Up untill about a year ago I thought that pickles grew on a pickle tree or something!! I had no idea they were actually cucumbers, untill my mother told me.
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 belive that kidney beans were bean shaped things that grew in kidneys... untill yesterday — Jokey
- Untill I was about 15 I thought that the birthmark on Mikael Gorbachov's head was actually a map of the world.— Rob , Solihull
- untill i was about 8, i thought that eating crusts would give u curly hair.— Harry