I grew up on a small cattle ranch, and honestly believed that we got steaks from shearing cattle the same way the neighbors got wool from shearing their sheep. Imagine my father's surprise when I asked him at dinner "do cows shivered when you take their meat off?".
I had no idea they actually died before you could eat their beef!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- My sister used to believe that a catalogue was something that cattle drank from.— Avonmouth Wendy
- When I was a little kid i thought cattle meant a group of cats— It's a group of cows and bulls!
- I used to believe that when sheep had their wool sheered off, they became lambds again.— Janet
- I used to think it was the United STEAKS of America and that cows must be really important in the U.S.— Jake
- I used to believe that when sheep die, god takes their wool and makes it into clouds— Oded
- I thought the Pledge of Allegiance was "to the United Steaks of America," and that we were saying it to cows.— bessy