I remember watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom as a kid, probably about 6 or 7 years old, and they said that the elephants were making people unhappy by destroying "mangroves". I had no idea what those were, so I thought they were saying "Meringue Groves", and therefore I thought that somehow meringue was harvested from African trees that elephants liked to eat.
A childhood belief about sweeties
others believed things like this
- My friend Rod hates any kind of meringue pie because when he was 6 his father told him it was cow slobber.— Sean
- I thought that hippos were baby elephants— Gerna
- I used to believe cats ate dogs and mice ate elephants— lucien
- I used to believe that peanuts were a daily must to strengthen the memory like elephants — Qb Cheese
- I thought that all black people were African-AmericanAnon
- i used to believe that shredded wheat was harvested from niagara falls because of the picture on the box— gord