when I was a kid one day at dinner I made a joke about how funny it was that chicken , (what we were eating) and chicken (the bird) were the same word. I was horified to find out they were one and the same
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- When I caught chicken pox, I thought it was down to me eating too much chicken.— Helen
- I thought that eating chicken gave me muscles (chicken and muscles sound the same in Mandarin).— NG
- I used to believe that if you buried a chicken bone in the backyard it would grow a chickenAnon
- Mom couldn't understand why at dinner time I wanted Chicken Pox.— Kristin
- I used to believe that all meats were chicken. I called everything chicken. :)— Girlfloyd
- I used to believe that eating chicken skin will give me nightmares.— zihui