As a child my dad told me that the donner kebab meat was an elephants leg - I believed him until I was 9
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- My sister told me as a child that ravioli was 'hedgehog' meat.
Still can't eat it today.......— Sal Myers - 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
- 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 believed that ham was mouse meat, because it was pink and my dad told me so. — Zo
- my brother used to believe that Ground Chuck meat was actually groundhog meat. Anon
- I once believed that if you touched hamburger meat, it would explode!— Dipaloe