I used to believe that when my mom made pasta, she messed it up every time and had to dump it down the sink and start over, I was always amazed at how fast the second batch took, since we always ate right after she dumped it... I didn't see the colander until I was old enough to see into the sink.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- If you eat 30 minutes before swimming, you will sink.Anon
- i used to believe that a monster lived in the garbage disposal. i would never go near the sink— Whitney
- I believed that linguini was made of tape worms and was scared to eat pasta for a long time!— Mojo!
- That baked beans were made of pasta! Spaghetti is?!Anon
- when i was a kid, I used to think that butterfly shaped pasta could fly and I didn't eat it.— Sabrina in Italy
- I used to think that if I was swinging on a swing fast enough, I could jump off it and start flying.— Nick