My brother used to tell me that refried beans came from letting cows eat the beans and then scraping it out of the cows stomach and canning it. They had to kill the cows to get the beans out. Weird, I know.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- Until just a few seconds ago, I thought gherkins were beans or something weird like natto...Anon
- I used to believe chocolate milk came from brown cows and regular milk came from black and white cowsAnon
- i used to think chocolate milk came from brown cows and normal milk came from white cows Anon
- When I was little I thought cows married horses, cows were all female and horses were all male. — Sheila
- I used to believe that brown cows made chocolate milk and white cows made regular milk.— andrew mient
- I used to think people were called "human beans".— Dave