My great-grandfather firmly believed, and had me convinced, that SPAM was mouse meat.
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- I believed that ham was mouse meat, because it was pink and my dad told me so. — Zo
- My father told me that Spam was a mix of sparrow and ham. I believed this for years lol— Tara the Terror
- 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
- I used to think that when I moved the mouse around on the mouse pad, I was giving the computer a massage.Anon
- 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