It is a very common belief held by many in Northern Ireland, including myself, when younger, that corned beef was made from Argentinian horses. For those of you from NI reading this. THIS IS NOT TRUE. I had to explain this to my 25 year old wife just the other day.........
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
- that the chinese dish Hunan beef was really made from humans. To this day, I have never ordered it. — kristen
- My wife thought she was Elvis mother when she was 4. It was 1977 the same year he died. — sister vanilla
- I used to believe that horseradish
was made from horses.— Dee - My mother told me chewing gum was made from horses hooves!Anon
- When I was little I thought cows married horses, cows were all female and horses were all male. — Sheila