We had 8 kids in our Catholic family, so sometimes I guess my mother got a little tired and lax about Lent rules. Anyhow, we ate pizza on many Fridays, the day of fasting during Lent. So my mother told us, and I grew up believing, that pepperonis were not meat, and thus they were okay to eat, even during Lenten fasting.
A childhood belief about church
others believed things like this
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller
- My mother, the good Catholic, thought that Jesus, being a string bean (supreme being) was really skinny.— Mark D
- when i was little i thought that pizza grew on trees and that the crust was poisoness thats why nobody ate it.— cameron
- 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
- 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 liked cats so much I wanted to be a Vet when I grew up, but, I thought they couldn't eat meat.
— Tanya