I used to believe that tarter sauce which you eat with fried fish gave you tarter on your teeth so I wouldn't eat it for years (now I really like it). I also thought that it was made with cream of tarter (a spice).
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i used to beleive the ice cream man was a fish man - becuase i hated fish.— jordan
- My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!— TawnyKat
- Until I was around 8 or 9 years old, I thought dentists took your teeth out and replaced them with new teeth.— Verapamilo
- I used to think that if someone ate ice cream with braces, their teeth would freeze.— Alli
- I used to beleive that ice cream is made up of only ice and cream on top— Umme Hani
- Not me, but my cousin used to think wrinkle cream gave you wrinkles.Anon