Up until an embarassingly advanced age, I believed that pimentos came from inside olives, and I felt bad for the guy who had to take the pimento out of each olive to fill up those jars of pimentos we bought in the grocery store.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- A friend of mine thought that some olives grew with red edible pits (pimentos).— HA
- my dad once told my bother and i, that olives with pimento, were fish eyes. — jocelynn
- I thought the Mountain of Olives was made out of Olives— Tanuki
- I used to think that my mom had to buy ice cubes from the store and bring them home to fill up the trays.— Shawna
- I used to believe that the red thing in the middle of a Greek olive was the pit.— Liz
- I thought brown paper grocery bags would fit more than plastic grocery bags.Anon