When I was young and my mom would be cooking a dinner consisting of pork chops I would ask what's for dinner and of course she'd say pork chops. But one time before she took them out of the package i read the label, it said Pork Loin Chops. I misconstrued the middle word to be Lion (like the beast in africa). I thought hmmm i guess mom wont tell me this meat is from a lion because me and my brothers (younger than i) would never eat such a thing. I thought this for a really long time and whenever mom would say we're having pork chops I'd kinda wink like i knew the inside secret that we couldn't let the younger ones know about.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that "pork chops" were called "port chops", and came from the left side of the pig.Anon
- My sister believed the pork in pork and beans was marshmallow...and would always "fight" us for it.Anon
- I used to believe that the meat dish 'tripe' was lion.— Kent
- I used to think that a sea lion was a hybrid of a seal and a lion.Anon
- Mom couldn't understand why at dinner time I wanted Chicken Pox.— Kristin
- My mom was always talking about "making
ends meat" but I don't ever remember having it served at dinner!— John Stees