When I was little my dad told me that they used those little red spiders to make the red Smarties red. I didn't eat any red Smarties cuz I didn't want to eat bugs.
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- I used to honestly think that Smarties were medicine.Anon
- Dark brown Smarties were poisonous.Anon
- when i was a child i used to think that my belly button was for storing smarties— GemSue
- i used to think that the red colourin gon Smarties was made from Beatles blood. In fact, I still do!!— pigsy
- My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.— grew up in Nebraska
- I made my bed everyday as a kid because I believed that if I didn't then bugs would get in it.Anon