Around the age of 4, after watching my family sprinkle salt on their food for almost every meal, I came to the conclusion that salt cooled your food down for you. It took a while for my mom to realize why I would pour heaps of salt on my food then sit back and wait.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was a little girl I thought that if you put salt on your food it cooled it off! lol What — Darlene
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- I used to believe that adding salt to food will make it cooler.— Ale Nijamkin
- I was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".Anon
- 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 - i thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva