I used to believe that Tabasco was used to punish people who misbehaved by putting it in their food. At one point, I was punished for saying a bad word by having a drop of Tabasco sauce fed to me.
I grew out of it, and am now willing to use hot sauce in nearly everything. Is there a hate-to-love thing going on here? I think there's a connection.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i used to think tabasco sauce was tobacco so i'd always be like "mom! dont put that in our food!!"Anon
- I used to think that Tabasco Sauce contained tobacco, and therefore was actually "tobacco sauce."
Anon - my grandfather told me that soy sauce was bug juice.Anon
- if you got sprayed by a skunk you had to have a bath in tomarto sauce— rob
- When I was little, I never ate pesto sauce because I thought if you ate it, it meant you were a pest.Anon
- My mum used to tell me that baked beans were just peas covered in tomato sauce.— munky