When I was younger I heard a song and one of the lines in it went "Starting over, cold turkey". I had never heard the expression 'cold turkey' before so I thought it was saying the person was starting a 'new life' and had no job at the time and could only afford cold turkey as food..
A childhood belief about nasty food

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you could quit smoking by eating cold turkey:)— Loren
- I thought people from Turkey actually praised turkeys...Anon
- Up until I was 10 I used to believe turkey was vegetarian.Anon
- I used to think Hungary and Turkey were the same country... I have no idea where that came from...— Skylla
- I used to believe Turkey day was a Turkish holiday. Then why are we celebrating it in America?— Lecia
- i thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva