when i was small, i saw some olives on a shelf and asked my big sister what they were. she told me that they were little animals like fish and that the red bits were their tongues! im 14 years old and still believed that until i was told in science 2 days ago that its not true! my sister still denies this!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- my dad once told my bother and i, that olives with pimento, were fish eyes. — jocelynn
- When my daughter was small she developed tonsillitis but she told everyone she had "tongues and lighters"— Jeannie Bee
- For years and years I believed that tuna must be really little fish because they came in such small cans!!— Gisela
- when i was younger i thought ants had tongues. i always pictured them sticking their tongues out at me. — i was an idiot
- I thought the Mountain of Olives was made out of Olives— Tanuki
- my mom told my sister and I that if you swallow gum, it won't leave ur stomach for 7 years.— Victoria