My wifes father had told her as a child that corned beef hash was a traditional dish for (H)Ash Wednesday. It was only when she told me and I nearly crashed the car laughing she realised.
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 sister and i used to think sideburns were called "hash browns."— ginny
- My Wifes dad used to tell her that if she ate the dark lumpy bits in the instant gravy she would die!!— Okse
- When i was child, i used to think my father was my father christmas.— BeB's
- When i was younger i thaught that thunder came when two skies crashed and the ligthning was sparks— Rickard