My mother always said that she thought that "turkey tetrazini" sounded like a disease. That might be one reason why I've never tasted that dish.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that all old people got the disease "OLD TIMERS DISEASE" Instead of alzheimers disease :D— MollyJohnson
- I used to think that Alzheimers disease was called Old Timers Disease.— Justin
- That Alzheimer's Disease was Old Timer's Disease.— Todd K
- 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 believe that the meat dish 'tripe' was lion.— Kent