When my dad would talk about eating "C-rats" (rations) in Vietnam, I thought he meant "sea rats," and pictured him eating some kind of slimy, amphibious rodent that came in a can. I even argued this point with my teacher.
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- when i was small i thought rats mutated into batsAnon
- I used to think thats rats put those eye crusties there while I were asleep— Maria
- I used to believe that tangled hair really had rats in it.— Kristy
- I used to believe that spiders were mutated rats that were shrunk!— Quako
- I used to believe that meatballs were made from dead rats.— Dogface
- I used to believe that the dancing rats from the nutcracker lived under my dresser.— Molly