My mother brought cotto salami home once for lunch meat and told us it was bologna. I thought the sliced peppercorns in it (purple on the outside & green inside) was poison, and I haven't touched bologna or lunch meat since then....I was 10 and now I'm 48.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the inside of my body looked like bologna.— Stephenie
- I used to believe that salami was the meat from elephant's feet— Sarah
- When you are very poor you "can't make end's meat." End's meat is some sort of cheap very low quality meat.— Betty
- When I was six my sister told me Meat Pies were made from mashed up rats...to this day I can't eat a Meat Pie.— Jamie
- I used to believe that they got the lunchmeat bologna from cutting off dead people's butts.— angie
- my brother used to believe that Ground Chuck meat was actually groundhog meat. Anon