When I was young I thought butter was used to cool food down when it was to hot. Now with a skyrocketing chlosterol count I am aware that temperature control is not butter's primary function.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- My mother told me if I ate too much butter I'd get worms. I didn't eat too much butter...— Dicky
- My daughter thought that ear wax was peanut butter.— Bobbiemac
- When I was a little boy, I thought that hair was made out of peanut butter.Anon
- I thought that barf was what they used to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!— Maan o' War
- When I was little, I thought the Indian princess on the Land-O-Lakes butter label was God or Jesus.— Butterflyzz
- I used to believe that peanut butter was lobster poo.— PaulH(nz)