Whenever we ate shepherd's pie for dinner my mam would tell me that there was a shepherd in every shepherd's pie so that I'd eat it, since I didn't like the dish. When I was finished but hadn't found the shepherd, my dad would say that he'd eaten it by mistake. This fooled me for years.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I believed that when you got married (the wife) you didn't have to work. Boy, was I fooled. ha ha ha— Patty
- I used to think that if you didn't have a birth mark you hadn't been born.— Kim
- I used to believe that the meat dish 'tripe' was lion.— Kent
- Mom told us that if we didn't eat every single bite of our veggies at dinner time, we'd get colon cancer.Anon
- that the chinese dish Hunan beef was really made from humans. To this day, I have never ordered it. — kristen
- Once my brother said me, the poppy seed in fact is ant. I have not eaten poppy seed for many years.
Anon