My mom used to tell my brother and I that the meat in the hamburgers at Chinese restaurants was dragon meat. To this day I am still leary of chinese food.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- When you are very poor you "can't make end's meat." End's meat is some sort of cheap very low quality meat.— Betty
- my brother used to believe that Ground Chuck meat was actually groundhog meat. Anon
- I always thought that duck sauce (from chinese restaurants) was duck poop.
— emily - When I was six my sister told me Meat Pies were made from mashed up rats...to this day I can't eat a Meat Pie.— Jamie
- I used to believe when ordering Chinese food the food and delivery man came from China— Dave
- I used to think the person who delivered Chinese food came all the way from China to do it.— Savana