I used to wonder why "candy" would be so rude as to put holes in my teeth, when I really, really liked it.
A childhood belief about sweeties
others believed things like this
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon
- I used to believe that eating burnt toast would make your teeth whiter and would brush your teeth for you.— Natasha
- I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth at night, ants would crawl into my mouth and eat my teeth.Anon
- Until I was about 8 I believed that your back teeth keep growing in until you have a full circle of teeth.Anon
- When I was very young, I assumed that false teeth were taken from dead people's teethAnon