I was about 3 years old and asked my mum one day "are chips a type of fish". She wasn't listening to me and just said yes. I went for ages believing that chips swam around in the sea.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that my belly button was for putting salt in while in bed, eating fish and chips.— Julie F
- I used to think that if you ate the black bits on chips you would instantly die of cancer.— jayne
- When I was little I used to believe that the brown potato chips, you know the burnt ones, were worm infested.— Eric Rustman
- I use to believe that potato chips were made from potato bugs. — Kayla
- I thought that “selfish” was a type of fish— Enrico
- For years and years I believed that tuna must be really little fish because they came in such small cans!!— Gisela