When I was little, I remember eating a type of after-dinner mint that had the name "hospitality mint" printed on the wrapper. I thought that the word "hospitality" meant "hospital" and so I was nervous about eating the mints because I thought they had medicine in them!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe viagra was a mint and that it was an everyday mint you could buy from the post office!!!— Bartoner
- I used to believe that you got 'Mintolia Disease' if you ate too much mint flavoured Ice Cream. — Leighton
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- Well into adulthood I thought that a local anesthetic meant one from the area near the hospital..— D'sparil
- Until recently I thought you could only get diabetes from eating too much sugar not just from being overweight— Tooken