My brother told me that the jelly in pork pies/tinned meat was made from cow spit. To this day I still gag when I think about eating the stuff.
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- 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
- I thought jelly fish were made out of fruit jelly. — Kevin
- My sister believed the pork in pork and beans was marshmallow...and would always "fight" us for it.Anon
- my brother used to believe that Ground Chuck meat was actually groundhog meat. Anon
- My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!— TawnyKat
- 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