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

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

ms pouty

I used to believe that you shouldn't swallow gum because it would stick to you heart and make it stop beating.

Anon

When I was really small, I had this little friend who thought that Starburst was gum. She'd put a piece in her mouth and chew it for a few seconds and then take it out and give it to her mom. I was only three, but I thought, "Gosh, this girl is dumb." She thought I was going to die from swallowing it.

friend of the stupid

When I was little, my sister used to tell me not to swallow my gum because it would make my guts stick together.

Rob

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

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

i used to beleive that if you swalled gum it would give you chiken pox

nose picker

I believed the urban legend that gum stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it.

Lindsay

i was told when i was young that if i swollowed gum my stomach would grow teeth to chew it

gammie

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 a kid I had an obsession with chewing gum. My mother trying to get me to quit chewing gum told me that gum was made out of elephant Buggers, so I stoped chewing gum.... for years

elmo

My mother would get us to spit out our gum before we went to bed at night by telling us if we insisted on chewing our gum in bed, it would turn into skeleton bones in our sleep! We all believed this and promptly spit it out!

Misty

Starburst candy used to air commercials where they would show a person popping a candy into their mouth, and then the camera would switch to showing that person riding an exhilarating roller coaster ride, or sailing off the top of a mountain on a hang-glider. I guess this was to show how exciting the taste of Starburst candy was.

Except I took the commercials literally and thought that if I ate a Starburst candy, that I would instantly get shot off a cliff or sent flying around in a crazy (scary!) roller coaster. I held this fear until I was about 7!

shoolz

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)

i used to belive that if you swallowed bubble gum it would be stuck inside you forever. i always refused gum or spat it out quickly once i was done chewing it until i was 9.

steve

When I was a kid I thought
If a person swallowed gum that it would stick to your insides for seven years

Angela

When I was about 5 and started chewing gum, and sometime I accidentally swallowed it, I used to believe there were 2 rods inside my stomach to wind up the swallowed gum: one for the pink gum and another for the white gum (there wasn't all sorts of gum colours back them. The gum would be rolled up around the rods as cord. It's terribly stupid, I know. I was 5, see.

Nuri

when i was little i used eat this gum with a zebra stripes on it and a zebra on the pack and one day i asked my older cousin why it had zebra stuff all over it and she said it was made from baby zebras...

hala

When I was little, my sister told me that if I swallowed chewing gum, or just any lollie without chewing it, I would die. I remember a teacher handing out lollies. Then I swallowed mine and I was nearly crying. I'll never let my sister forget that.

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