When I was maybe 11, my cousin told me that SPAM stood for "Scientifically Produced Animal Matter." I believed her for a while, too.
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- I used to think for a very long time, that spam was left over animal parts with salt.— Ebony
- My father told me that Spam was a mix of sparrow and ham. I believed this for years lol— Tara the Terror
- My great-grandfather firmly believed, and had me convinced, that SPAM was mouse meat. — texasblue
- My dad told me SPAM was made of Squirrel, Possum, and Mice YUM YUM — Suzanne
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly
- I believed that "oldies" were a genre of music still being produced. — UB