I used to believe your throats had a bunch of sharp bony parts that cut up the food as it fell down. For some reason I never thought that chewing did the same thing.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I thought for some reason that chewing tobacco was REQUIRED for Major League Baseball players.— Jeff
- I thought you could die from chewing gum while in the shower.— Hollow Head
- I thought when you got food poisoning it might someone had put poison in your food— Bootlebat
- I use to believe that if a sharp object punctured your eye it would pop like a bubble— Dani
- i used to believe the turning signals on cars helped them turn sharp corners.— Julia
- that there was a sharp toothed snail inside my nose, waiting to bite my finger off— diana