When I was little I thought Oprah Winfreys name was really "Okra" Winfrey, so one night for dinner I told my mom I wanted fried Okra for dinner, not the lady on T.V. but the kind you eat.
A childhood belief about tv shows

others believed things like this
- I thought "opera" was pronounced "oprah", as in Oprah Winfrey.— Molly
- Mom couldn't understand why at dinner time I wanted Chicken Pox.— Kristin
- We were told at school by the evil dinner ladies that apple pips contained arsenic.....Anon
- Mom told us that if we didn't eat every single bite of our veggies at dinner time, we'd get colon cancer.Anon
- My mom was always talking about "making
ends meat" but I don't ever remember having it served at dinner!— John Stees - I used to think that Oprah was an opera singer.— Mello