I used to believe that if you ate the pips in apples a tree would grow inside your stomach.

QueenB

When I was about 8 years old I developed a liking to lemons. As there was a big lemon tree in out front garden, I used to climb the tree, gather about 4-5 lemons and chow down on them sprinkled with salt.
My mom was irritated to see me eat so many lemons in one go (including the seeds) and she told me that if I don't stop eating them little lemon trees would grow in my tummy. It diddn't stop me eating lemons, but I did stop eating the seeds.
I believed her story right up until I was a teenager, when I accidentally swallowed a seed. I nervously waited for a tree to grow, and when none did I told my mom what an awful fibber she was!

Athena

When i was younger i used to beleive that if you swallowed apple seeds an apple tree would grow out the top of your head. So naturally i avoided swallowing them at all costs. However One day i was riding my bike while eating a plum and fell of my bike and swallow the pip that i had been chewing on to get those last little bits off. For Weeks i was terrified i was going to get a plum tree grow out my head :|

Hellybell

I use to tell my neice that if she ate a seed from a fruit [[or a common food]] and ate dirt, she would grow that plant in her tummy and she would die, because it got so big that she would bust like a bubble.

sk8terbaby2012

When I was little, I used to believe that if I swallowed apple pips, I'd get an apple tree growing in my tummy and it would come out my nose...I still think twice about swallowing apple pips, lol.

Sadashi

when you eat the seeds from a watermelon a watermelon will start to grow inside your stomache.

Anon

My Mum told me, that if I swallowed cherry-pips, they would start to grow inside me and the branches would come out of my ears

Joop

When I was young my mom always told me that if I ate the pips from fruit that fruit would actually grow out of my ears. I actually believed her that I used to pick all the pips out of my fruit before I ate them.

Eliz

I used to believe that a tree would grow inside you if you ate the seed of an apple or any other fruit!

Anon

I used to think that if you ate nuts and seeds that minature trees woudl grow in your stomach.

Gillian

I used to believe that if I ate the seeds from fruits and vegetables, they would then sprout and grow inside me. I want to thank my brothers for that phobia :)

Bullfrogsgoddess

Bad habit - swallowing olive pits, orange seeds, etc. We were told if we swallowed these, a tree would grow in our stomachs. If we bit and swallowed our nails, a finger would grow in our stomachs. Anything we ate, that we weren't supposed to eat, would result in the growth of the original plant/tree it came from.

Sonia

When i was younger my dad would tell me if u ate watermelon seeds a watermelon would grow inside of you. So whenever i accidently ate one i would start to cry.

no watermelon growing in me

When I was young I remember my parents telling me (and I am assuming all parents told their kids) that if I swollowed the seeds from a watermelon, I would have vines growing from my ears and nose! I tried very hard not to and when I would swallow one, my eyes would get huge and I would start freaking out!

Kristy

I was told by my aunt that if you swallowed gum/ watermelon seeds, that s bubblegum tree/ watermelon plant would grow in my stomach.

Anon

As a child I used to think that if you swallowed seeds from any kind of fruit or vegetable, a plant would begin to grow from your stomach and grow so big that it would soon kill you. This resulted in many painstaking hours sifting through meals to remove anything that resembled a seed.

Kath, the non vegetarian ;)

My whole family would always get together at my Grandmother's house in the country to celebrate 4th of July. One year when my cousin Tommy was about 6 years old, he suddenly started crying and totally freaking out. My older cousin and I finally got him to calm down enough to speak. He was upset because he had swallowed a watermelon seed. One of the kids at his school had told him that if he swallowed a seed it would grow roots in his belly and branches all up inside of his brain.

carson

When I was a kid I believed that if you swallowed a fruit pip that treees would grow from your ears.

Liz Smith

When I was little I used to believe that if I ate grapes with the pips in that a grape tree would grow out of my ears. Imagine my horror when one day I swallowed one by accident! I spent the whole night worrying that by the time I woke up I would have the branches sticking out of my ears and that I would have to go to school like that!

Anna

I used to think that if you swallowed an orange or an apple seed the tree would grow in your stomach.
This concerned me greatly when I accidentally swallowed some one day.
My mother set me straight on stomach acid and soil!

Georgia Dakkis