When very young I was stood looking into the window of a butchers with my mum. I pointed at some red meat (I think it was probably liver) and asked my mum what it was. She said Lamb (I don't think she knew which meat I meant). But I heard it as "man" and was convinced from then on that butchers sold human meat!
A childhood belief about nasty food
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
- I used to beleive that liver (as in liver and onions and gravy) was rhinocerous meat.Anon
- 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 Dad had me believe - for YEARS - that Lamb meat was man made.— Anthony
- My great-grandfather firmly believed, and had me convinced, that SPAM was mouse meat. — texasblue