Until just a few seconds ago, I thought gherkins were beans or something weird like natto...
A childhood belief about gherkins

others believed things like this
- I thought gherkins were pickled slugs.— Cat
- When I was little i thought that seconds were so fast that you couldn't count them.— Baby
- I used to think people were called "human beans".— Dave
- I used to call the rays of light from the sun "sun BEANS". That's what it sounded like to me.Anon
- That baked beans were made of pasta! Spaghetti is?!Anon
- My mum used to tell me that baked beans were just peas covered in tomato sauce.— munky