my mom always told me that cucumbers had gas in them and thats what made you burp so to get the gas out she cut the ends off and rubbed the end on the rest of the cucumber. i believed this worked until i was married...
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I once told a friend of mine that if you held in a smelly burp, it'd turn into a fart. She believed me.Anon
- My brother once told me that if you burp and fart at the same time, you'd explode— Aubrey
- I was told in first grade that if you fart burp and sneeze at the same time you would blow up— bob doodle
- Up until the age of 21 I believed pickles were pickles, I had no idea they were cucumbers.— Jason
- I used to believe a pickle was a smaller version of the cucumber.Anon
- that the green bit of cucumbers was poisonousAnon