When ever I choked on water or food as a kid my grandpa always told me it went down "the wrong tube". This made me think of the back of my throat having hundreds of tubes for all different kinds of food, like one for pizza and one for oreos etc. Thank you 5th grade biology!
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- I used to believe when ordering Chinese food the food and delivery man came from China— Dave
- I thought when you got food poisoning it might someone had put poison in your food— Bootlebat
- I used to think what heated the food in the pan was the boiling water, not the heat under it.— Mario
- pizza hut made their pizzas in a tiny hut out back of the store
Anon - i use to belive if you eat to much of a food u will turn into that food Anon