When I was about five, I found out that beef was actually dead cow flesh, which prevented me from eating steaks. It didn't stop me from eating hamburgers, though, because I believed they grew on bushes...
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody
- i used to think that you would die if you didn't wait 30 minutes to go into the pool after eating. (^^)— cady
- I used to believe that in China, instead of Adam and Eve eating an apple? They believed it was a banana.— smartygirl
- I didn't mind eating lambs brains when I was a kid because I thought it would make me smart.Anon