When I was little, I heard my mother talking to my grandmother about recipes.My grandmother gave my mother a recipe for Shepherd's Pie, one that she got from her mother, my great grandmother.
Now, my great grandmother's last name was Shephard, so for years I thought that her family invented it! That was, after all, why it was named "Shephard's Pie."
Of course, when I found out other families had it too, I was a bit confused. How could they have our family recipe? All sorts of stories went through my head. My mind eventually settled on that my great grandmother had sold the recipe a long time ago, not realizing how popular it would be, and it became really famous. It wasn't spoken of in my family because they were probably bitter they could have become rich off it.
It wasn't until years later that I found out the truth of it being an old English dish, and most likely had nothing to do with my family.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- I was about 6 and thought my family invented the fart because I never heard anyone outside my family do it.— Bob
- My Grandmother once told me she could unscrew her feet. I believed that for years.— Andy Bettison
- i used to think a small man named homer lived in my grandmother's freezer and made ice. — ana
- I thought I would fall through the cracks in my grandmother's deck.— Hannah
- i used to think my grandmother's actual name was Gramma!— el kristadore!