I was told that if you swallowed a piece of gum, it would stay in your stomach for 7 years.

katie

Although I never thought it would kill me, I used to think that gum would get stuck on my ribs if I swallowed it and just be a gooey mess.

the_only_nighthawk

My Uncle Billy used to tell us that if we swallowed chewing gum it would clog our bums up !

Coolbuzz

I used to believe that keeping your chewing gum behind your ear over night would keep it full of flavour for the next day

Troy

I was told as a kid that if you kept stuffing a Big Buddies (bubble gum)I would get lock jaw.

Dawn

on chewing gum,

I think it was a thing in our hometown because not only my brother and family, but all my friends parents said the same thing. It takes 7 years to digest gum. It just slows everything down in your system and you will become deathly ill. I think I actually believed this until I was graduated.

Dee

my older sister told me that if you accidentally swallowed chewing gum it wandered around inside you and could get tangled all round your ribs and suffocate you. I still don't chew gum!

Lorna

I used to believe that the bubble gum medicine was really made of bubble gum. i believed this until i was 16.

Shawn

I used to belive that, if you swallowed your chewing gum, you'd fart bubbles...

Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA

I was told that there was a kid down the street who would always swallow his chewing gum. Eventually he swallowed so much, and since gum doesn't get digested in your stomach, he had to be rushed to the emergency room one day to have his stomach pumped. I am still not sure if this is true or not but I don't swallow my chewing gum. If anyone can clue me in on this let me please know.

Ed

When I was about 5 years old, I had a bad habit of swallowing gum. One day my grandmother told me if I swallowed too much gum, it would stick my "poopers" together and I would never be able to go to the bathroom again. I was so terrified of accidentaly swallowing another piece that I didn't chew gum again until I was about 12.

Brandy

My mom made me believe that when u swallowed ur chewing gum, it would get all sticky, and stick in your intestines

Ben

I used to believe that if you swallowed chewing gum, that it could not be digested, instead, the body deposited the wad of gum into the appendix. Once the appendix became too full of gum, then that person would have to have his appendix removed. I always spit my gum out as a kid, and now I don't even chew gum anymore.

Anon

I was told that when you eat Cinnaburst Gum, you can eat the wrapper and all.

I tried it, and found out otherwise...

Then I began trying this theory on other types of foods (ie: ice cream, candy bars, etc).

To this day I still wonder what I was thinking, and what the person who told me that was thinking.

Mike

In pre-school and kindergarten, it was common knowledge that if you swallowed your gum, it would take 7 years to digest. Nobody would do it because we figured we'd run out of room for food after a while. Years later, people began to question it, but really no one was sure. I don't think I quit believing that until the middle of high school.

Eric

My grandmother used to tell my mother not to swallow her gum. She said that the body couldn't digest the gum and that it would just stick to her colon for her whole life. My mom says that she used to picture this tube covered in gum and worried that it would get clogged.

Miss Julie

My mum use to tell us that if we swallowed bubbly gum, it would stick to our hearts.

An-D