When I was younger and my family went out to Chinese food we always ordered several spicy dishes. Consequently I would drink a lot of water with the meal. On the way home from dinner I always needed to pee really badly. For YEARS I thought that there was some ingredient in fortune cookies that made people need to pee.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- that the chinese dish Hunan beef was really made from humans. To this day, I have never ordered it. — kristen
- I used to wonder why fortune cookies never predicted something bad like "you will fall off a cliff"— Izual
- I used to think that when you made food 'from scratch', that scratch was an ingredient like starch.— Aynsleigh
- i used to think if i would eat spicy food i would burn and die— Bill
- I used to believe that "Wheel of Fortune" was called "Squeal of Fortune." I don't know why.— Joey Schwartzman
- I used to believe when ordering Chinese food the food and delivery man came from China— Dave