I was ten before my parents were able to convince me that the restaurants did not, in fact, take the food that people did not finish and serve it to other patrons. Why the hell were all the old people pointing at the bread basket and saying "See? That's how they get ya! They get ya to fill up on bread so you can't finish ya meal!" What was I supposed to think they were doing with unfinished food?
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think bread grew on trees and people just cut it up and sold it.Anon
- "Better than sliced bread"
I used to believe 'Sliced Bread' was a musical band.— Madeline - I usd to believe that at restaurants that had a BYO sign out the front, you had to "bring your own" meal.— Fiona
- I used to believe that if you licked ice-cream, it would never finish. Anon
- In a race if you finish several laps down you have to make up for it afterwardsAnon
- when i was a lil kid i used to think salt was dead lice that people but on there food and i never knew why
— jessica diamond