When I was a little kid I thought that salt was some form of an aged sugar.
A childhood belief about salt

others believed things like this
- Salt is bad tasting sugar.— cobra
- Salt is sugar from a different country.— Santa Puncher
- I thought that a "sugar daddy" was a father who let his kids eat all the sugar they wanted.Anon
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- adding too much sugar to foods would give you "sugar worms"...
Anon - I used to believe that when cordial drink said 'sugar free' that you didnt have to pay for the sugar in it!— Grace Lyon New Addington