You know that song from the 80's, I can't remember what is was called, but the chorus sang "Everytime you go away, you take a piece of me with you". Well I swore, being 7 years old, that he was singing, "Everyttime you go away, you take a piece of meat with you". I just didn't understand what it had to do with meat!
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

others believed things like this
- I used to hear "Everytime you go away, you take a piece of Meat with you"
Makes a nice light snack I spose.— Linda - That at meetings adults sat on plastic chairs surrounding a large piece of meatAnon
- 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
- 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
- my brother used to believe that Ground Chuck meat was actually groundhog meat. Anon
- I used to think doner kebabs were called that because the animals donated their meat for it— Jordan