My nephew, when visiting his grandmother, asked what she ws cooking. The reply was "a hamhock" and he became quite upset, believing she was cooking a hawk who had a preference for pigs.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I thought the tip jar at the restaurant was so people could give the chef cooking tips for how to cook better.Anon
- When I was little I thought that Shakin' Stevens was Elvis' nephew— Ali
- my nephew used to believe that when people died, they just needed new batteries.— p-daddy
- My nephew (age 7) thought tampons were plugs for diarrhea. Anon
- sheep were wooly pigs— CJ
- My 7 year old nephew holds the opinion that the correct name for a pidgeon is a "city chicken".— Bastard