My mum told me that cold custard (which I hated) was in fact Banana Blancmange. I lapped it up for years.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I hated french onion soup so my dad told me that it was banana soup and i lapped it up for years.— AussieMeg
- There was a custard well in my back gardenAnon
- I was told as a child to eat the dark parts of a banana, because it was really brown sugar.Anon
- When I was 5 years old, I used to believe Poland was snowy and cold all year round, like the North Pole. — Sara
- I thought a "cold sore" on your mouth was the same thing as "coleslaw" and so avoided eating it for years.— Helen (UK)
- I used to believe my father when he told me that if I sat on cold concrete I would get hemorrhoids.Anon