I used to believe that mincemeat was mouse meat. I still tell the kids at Thanksgiving that mince meat pie is really mouse meat...some of the adults even look at me and THEY almost belive it too.
A childhood belief about nasty food
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
- I believed that ham was mouse meat, because it was pink and my dad told me so. — Zo
- My great-grandfather firmly believed, and had me convinced, that SPAM was mouse meat. — texasblue
- 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
- That at meetings adults sat on plastic chairs surrounding a large piece of meatAnon