When we went out to a Chinese or Japanese restaurant, my uncle would always order fillet mignon. Well, I always misheard it as "Flaming Yon". I assumed it was some kind of super spicy Asian dish... It wasn't until recently that I learned it was merely steak.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think that only chinese fat guys can Sum wrestle and that it was illegal if he wasnt asian.— sumo
- I used to think "firecrackers" we're some kind of really spicy cracker.— MAG
- that the chinese dish Hunan beef was really made from humans. To this day, I have never ordered it. — kristen
- I recently found out that Euthanasia is not Asian youth.Anon
- i used to think if i would eat spicy food i would burn and die— Bill
- I used to believe that the Super intendant was the Super Nintendo.— Lecia