When AIDS was first announced to the public, there was a diet candy called Aids. I used to think that if you ate Aids candy you would get AIDS.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you could catch AIDS from just looking at a nud girl. Good thing I was WRONG— Mbm4615
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon
- When I was 10, I thought that nausea was called Lack-O-Candy Disease. My mom made it up— Teddybearhaha
- When I Was Little,I Used To Believe Clouds Were Candy FlossAnon
- I used to believe when I was young that Poland was made entirely of candy.— Jenn