When we were little my brother loved to eat pork chops because he thought they were called Port Chops and Ports were a very rare and delicious animal because he had never seen one. He didn't learn otherwise until I told him the truth when he was in his late teens. He was rather disappointed.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that "pork chops" were called "port chops", and came from the left side of the pig.Anon
- My sister believed the pork in pork and beans was marshmallow...and would always "fight" us for it.Anon
- I used to believe that if you had an animal listen to classical music, it'd eventually learn how to talk.Anon
- I believed the urinals in port-o-potties were sinks.Anon
- I used to believe that an oilskin actually came from an animal called an Oil.....— Sally
- My brother used to believe that when we went to school dogs went to dog school to learn to speak and read— Matt