Around the age of six I went through a phase of believeing that sausages were the amputated and cooked limbs of a particular animal, a sort of miniature elephant. This really put me off eating them, especially with tomato sauce.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- My mum used to tell me that baked beans were just peas covered in tomato sauce.— munky
- I used to think that a tornado was a tomato and lots of tomato juice would got flying around.— sam
- I used to believe that seals were dogs that had amputated legs.Anon
- I used to think that Tabasco Sauce contained tobacco, and therefore was actually "tobacco sauce."
Anon - When I was (very) young, I believed that sausages were Pig poo. Yum.— CrystalTips
- I used to think that sausages where made from cow's udders.— eoin