I thought that you were payed by being given bacon. That's why my parents would always say "bringing home the bacon"
A childhood belief about work
others believed things like this
- when i was little i thought pigs ate only tomatoes because bacon and ham was red when cooked.Anon
- When i was little, i thought that pig latin came from pigs. I was so frightned to eat bacon afterwords :S— Juber
- I thought until fairly recently that bacon came from the skin of a pig and that's why it was so thin— Nate
- When I was very little, I used to believe that bacon came from the tail of a pig because it was curly!!— Audrey
- My dad used to tell me that "smoked" bacon came from pigs that had been fed on a diet of kippers !!!— Tony . Newcastle on Tyne
- My brother believed that bacon(his favorite food) was from horses. — Jenn