When I was little I used to call pawns "spongey beans" beacuse I thought that they were a kind of bean.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe 'three bean salad' was an extremely small entree because it contained only three beans.— queeneve
- i used to belive that kidney beans were bean shaped things that grew in kidneys... untill yesterday — Jokey
- I used to call the rays of light from the sun "sun BEANS". That's what it sounded like to me.Anon
- My mother, the good Catholic, thought that Jesus, being a string bean (supreme being) was really skinny.— Mark D
- Until just a few seconds ago, I thought gherkins were beans or something weird like natto...Anon
- I still belive that if you stick a bean up your nose for a cople of days it will sprout— Leah