My parents used to tell me when I was about 5 that if I ate bubblegum and swallowed it that it would stay there for seven years.

They also told me that if I ate the watermelon seeds that in about a couple of years I would have a watermelon growing in my tummy.

Tiffany Waugh

I used to believe it took 7 years to digest swallowed gum. If that was really the case then I would have over 8,000 pieces of gum wadded up inside of me. 3 pieces a day x 7 days a week x 52 weeks in a year x 7 years really adds up. It is gross that I swallow that much but it is just a habit. Now I think I believe that the gum swallowing has saved me from many accidents and health problems. They will probably find someday that it is actually good for you!!!!!

Tina

My Mum told me that if you swallowed chewing gum, your bones would stick together inside you.

Pauliboy

My aunt always used to tell me that if I swallowed gum, I'd turn into a frog!

Deana, Las Vegas, NV.

When I was about 9 I was told that if you swallowed your gum then it would be in your digestive tract for 8 years. So I figured that with all the gum I must have swallowed already I'd have gum inside of me for the rest of my life. Thankfully I learned that gum is digested just like everything else. :) I still don't like swallowing my gum anymore though. 0_o

Bunny

I used to believe that if you swallowed chewing gum it got stuck in your stomach for years and years. But, being a not-too well off kid, i didn't want to waste a peice i was eating, so i stuck it behind my ear (an idea i got from the film "charlie and the chocolate factory"). of course, this stuck to my hair and i had to have it cut.

Anon

When I was very young, around 5 or 6 yrs. old, I remember my mother telling me that if you swallowed your chewing gum, it would stick to your appendix and you'd have to have surgery. I guess I stuck that in the back of my mind and never thought much about it until I was about 20, right after I'd gotten married. I accidentally swallowed my gum, while doing housework. All of a sudden I remembered what my mother had told me. I always trusted my mother. Go figure.

Pat

Because it's awkward to do in public (yes, people can and do give you dirty looks for this), I prefer to swallow gum instead of spitting it in a trash can. This started at a young age.

My parents told me if I continued to swallow the gum, it would "gum up" my insides and my body would stop functioning properly.

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For some reason, I didn't care enough about this to stop swallowing my gum.

Lindsay

My granny always used to tell me that if I swallowed my gum everytime, it would get stuck and the doctors would have to operate on me.

Taylor (14)

my cousins,ages 4 1/2 and 6,beleive that if you always chew gum,you don't have to eat,because chewing gum makes it impossible to be hungry or starve to death!

lol i wonder where they got that idea

gum-the new cure for world hunger

When I was about 5 years old, my dad told me to be careful when chewing gum because if you swallowed it, it would get stuck to your stomack, and never come out. When I would accidently swallow my gum I would think to myself that I would have a belly full of gum by the time I was older.

BPF

my nanna told me if I swallowed gum that I would have a gum tree growing out of my tummy

ms pouty

when i was young i used to believe that chewing gum was made out of cows feet

Anon

My parents told me that having too much candy, or particularly gum, would rot my teeth. I thought that it would instantly turn my teeth into the yellow rotten things I saw on posters at the dentist's office.

I still don't chew gum.

Anon

my mom made me believe that if i swallowed my chewing gum, it would form one big wad in my stomach.

mimi

I used to believe that when I swallowed my gum,it would take seven years to dissolve in my stomach!! But I wouldn't believe it IF my uncle didn't tell me-He even promised that it was true!!!

MeGgIe

I was told that if I swallowed gum that it took years and years to digest. And when it finally did I would be constapated for a long time because of it.

Angela Madeleine Helene Alexander Rector-Roy

my dad told me a long time ago that if i swallowed gum it would go into my lungs and keep me from breathing! of coarse i have no clue why he told me a story to make me not want to swallow gum but it sure worked for a couple of years. by the way if u push your nose while you swallow gum it helps you swallow =) thats a fact!

Zlata

When I was 8 years old I use to chew bubble gum and swallow it because I didn't know where it would go. Then my teacher took me that swallowing gum will stay in my stomach and know I 'm 9 years old and I'm spliting out my chew gum in the trash. And for my teacher thank God we have internet.

Kenney Watkins

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