When I was a young child, my parents would have heated discussions regarding the state of their finances. During these converstaions, my mom would often say "I just can't make ends meet." I believed that end's meet was a sort of casserole or lunch meat: end's meat. I didn't understand at all the importance of my mom making end's meat when I was perfectly happy with hotdogs and mac and cheese.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- 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
- My mom was always talking about "making
ends meat" but I don't ever remember having it served at dinner!— John Stees - 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
- my brother used to believe that Ground Chuck meat was actually groundhog meat. Anon
- My sister told me as a child that ravioli was 'hedgehog' meat.
Still can't eat it today.......— Sal Myers - I believed that ham was mouse meat, because it was pink and my dad told me so. — Zo