My parents once showed me the plastic cows in Milton Keynes (UK) from a train window. They told me it was because Milton Keynes didn't have any cows of its own, and I thought this was really sad, that they had to make cows because they couldn't afford any real ones.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought cows married horses, cows were all female and horses were all male. — Sheila
- I used to believe chocolate milk came from brown cows and regular milk came from black and white cowsAnon
- i used to think chocolate milk came from brown cows and normal milk came from white cows Anon
- I used to believe that brown cows made chocolate milk and white cows made regular milk.— andrew mient
- I USE TO BELIEVE THAT BROWN & BLACK COWS MAKE CHOCOLATE MILK— TINA
- One of my friends told me that when he was a kid he thought windmills were used to keep cows cool!— Julie