I was about 16 years old before I saw a real live tuna fish. Until then I believed they were about the size of bait fish, and that they were peeled with tweezers. Hence, the small can!!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- For years and years I believed that tuna must be really little fish because they came in such small cans!!— Gisela
- I used to believe that a fish cake was a fish in sponge and coated in icing. I believed this until I was 9.Anon
- i used to beleive the ice cream man was a fish man - becuase i hated fish.— jordan
- Burned fish fingers ment the fish was from the black sea.Anon
- i used to believe the white part in fish meat is because of the fish's milk— Kim
- i used to believe that scampi was fish toes instead of fish fingers....Anon