When i was little if went shopping say to the Butchers or Grocers (no Supermarkets then) the meat on display or cheese etc had a price on a hefty pin stuck in it and when i watched westerns Gunsmoke or the like and the sheriff said that guys got a price on his head i believed he had a meat pin in or on his head although i never managed to see it lol
A childhood belief about general
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
- 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
- I believed that ham was mouse meat, because it was pink and my dad told me so. — Zo
- I once believed that if you touched hamburger meat, it would explode!— Dipaloe
- My great-grandfather firmly believed, and had me convinced, that SPAM was mouse meat. — texasblue