I used to believe that beef was buffalo meat. I didn't know it was cow. I found out in the tenth grade when my best friend said something about it. I was too embarassed to ask her more so I looked it up in the dictionary. Sure enough, beef is cow, not buffalo.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I always thought buffalo wings were chopped up pieces of buffalo.— Jkatcha
- I thought buffalo wings were wings from a buffalo, for years I looked for their wingsAnon
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- Huey Lewis's "Hip to be square" - in 3rd grade I could have SWORN it was "hit the beef square". ????Anon
- I used to beleave that beef jerkey was cow-scabs.— Jennie
- My wife used to believe that CORNED BEEF was from cows who lived beside the seaAnon