My dad used to tell me that "smoked" bacon came from pigs that had been fed on a diet of kippers !!!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- when i was little i thought pigs ate only tomatoes because bacon and ham was red when cooked.Anon
- When i was little, i thought that pig latin came from pigs. I was so frightned to eat bacon afterwords :S— Juber
- when i was about three i suddenly realized where bacon comes from....from unborn pigs eggs of course— planetnewbs
- When I was very little, I used to believe that bacon came from the tail of a pig because it was curly!!— Audrey
- My brother believed that bacon(his favorite food) was from horses. — Jenn
- I thought until fairly recently that bacon came from the skin of a pig and that's why it was so thin— Nate