To get me to eat Brussel Sprouts, my mum told me that they were mini cabbages. I've not eaten another sprout since I sussed it out.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I believed that Brussel Sprouts were baby cabbages....they are just so cute!— Heather
- | believed that liver and brussel sprouts were evil.
I'm OK with liver now, but brussel sprouts...— James - When I was little, I used to think that brussel sprouts were midget lettuce.— Jules
- I used to believe brussel sprouts were holy because they had a cross marked in the top when mum boiled them!— Ali Brill
- I still belive that if you stick a bean up your nose for a cople of days it will sprout— Leah
- My dad once told me that every potato we had ever eaten was grown in his ear.— Shirley B.