My brother and I used to fight over the chicken legs whenever my mom would cook it, so she would always buy an extra package of legs when she bought a whole chicken. She and my brother had me convinced that all this had come from a six-legged racing chicken.
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you buried a chicken bone in the backyard it would grow a chickenAnon
- When I caught chicken pox, I thought it was down to me eating too much chicken.— Helen
- I used to believe that all meats were chicken. I called everything chicken. :)— Girlfloyd
- I thought that eating chicken gave me muscles (chicken and muscles sound the same in Mandarin).— NG
- I used to believe that you could keep a chicken egg (that you bought) warm, and it would hatch!Anon
- I used to believe when you had chicken pox, you turned into a chicken— Shirley