As I very small girl I used to believe that corned beef came from those cows with a pattern of ragged red-brown patches on their hides. That pattern rather resembling corned beef, I imagined the cows were simply sliced up, in some mysterious way which wouldn't hurt them.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- My wife used to believe that CORNED BEEF was from cows who lived beside the seaAnon
- I used to believe that cows laid beef, like the way chickens laid eggsAnon
- 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
- I used to believe that brown cows made chocolate milk and white cows made regular milk.— andrew mient
- When I was little I used to think that chocolate milk came from brown cows.Anon