when i was a child around the age of 8-10 i used to believe a baloney (the sandwich meat) was a real live animal that looked liked a pig with an elaphant trunk.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When you are very poor you "can't make end's meat." End's meat is some sort of cheap very low quality meat.— Betty
- When I was a child, I used to think that if you eat an animal, you become that animal
— Hmza - My sister told me as a child that ravioli was 'hedgehog' meat.
Still can't eat it today.......— Sal Myers - When I was six my sister told me Meat Pies were made from mashed up rats...to this day I can't eat a Meat Pie.— Jamie
- my brother used to believe that Ground Chuck meat was actually groundhog meat. Anon
- As a young child I thought that sheep and poodles were the same animal.— Jane