When I was young, I thought when a food was "spicey hot" you could blow on it to make it not "hot. For example, when I chewed Big Red gum, I would take it out of my mouth and blow on it because I thought that would make it "cool" down. Silly me!
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- My dad told me that when he was little, he thought the trees waved back and forth to make the wind blow.— casey
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that windmills were what caused the wind to blow. silly me :)— Adrian Z. Ontario, CA USA
- I used to think that if you didn't blow your nose and just sniffed the snot up, you head would blow up.Anon
- when I was very young, I used to beleive that the leaves rustling in the trees made the wind blow— Ellona
- I thought if i picked my nose too many times, my head would blow up.— i m a moron
- I thought if something was radioactive it meant if you turn on a radio near it it would blow up— Nate