In about fifth grade, I pulled apart a grape and thought the seeds were boogers. Only made it worse that it was a green grape at that. I wouldn't eat grapes for years after.. it still psyches me out sometimes.

silk

I used to think that there was a little boy who lived inside an apricot seed and thought it was my duty to smash the seed to free him. So I got a huge rock and gave it my all and when I couldn't find him I thought I killed him!

Savannah

I used to think that the popcorn seeds just came from a plant, i never knew it was from corn.. Until my friend told me when we where eating it one day..
till i was like 15. No-one ever told me :(

Aurora

I used to believe that if you ate the little seeds on pizza that pizza would grow out of your ears

chana

this is one I overheard in school. I don't remember if it was in high school or grade school. The teacher was talking to someone and told them that he knew this kid that thought cheerio's were donet seeds!

Anon

I used to think that if I ate any kind of seed (watermelons in particular as well as apples, oranges, etc) I'd grow a tree in my stomach. How it watered and grew didn't matter to me; and I would watch my mother for hours after she ate any seeds for fear that a tree would sprout out of her stomach!

Anon

I used to believe that if you ate a watermelon seed you would grow a watermelon tree in your stomach!!!

Eskimo

Up until the age of six, I used to believe that if you ate a watermelon seed, the watermelon would grow inside you. Needless to say I convinced my mother to buy only seedless watermelons for quite some time. My sister, who is two years younger than me, believed this for some time too!

Seedless

When I was younger, my parents always told me never to eat watermelon seeds, or I'll have a watermelon grow in my stomach. Even as I was about fifteen years old, I would always get scared if I accidentally swallowed a seed, and I would never drink water after it thinking that it'll help the watermelon get planted. Silly.

Sarah

When I was 5 or 6, my Grandpa used to tell me that if I ate the seeds of watermelons that I would grow watermelons out of my ears. Of course, that just made me eat more of the seeds until I realized that I just wasn't going to grow any no matter how many seeds I ate.

Jeff

I was always told that if you eat the seeds out of watermelon that baby watermelons would grow in your stomach. Now I can't stand the site of it even though I know this is not true!!!

Anon

when I was about 5 my aunt was pregnant and she told me that she swallowed a watermelon seed and it was growing inside of her. and I was so scared it would take me like hours to finish a watermelon to make sure I got all the seeds out.

cartron.

I used to believe that if you accidentally ate grape pips you 'd get appendicitis.

Sue Beach

Dad used to say that if I swallowed a watermelon seed, a plant would grow out of my ear. I thought about it for a while and came to the conclusion that it could work because my earwax would be the perfect substitute for soil.

Lise'

When I was younger, I was riding in a car with my grandparents. The ride was going to be long so they gave me an apple to eat. After I was finished with it I got bored and started picking the seeds out of the core. I placed the seeds on the seat next to me.

Well, then we went over a speedbump and it looked like the appleseeds were jumping. I screamed bloody murder because I thought they were mad at me for taking them out of the apple. O_o

Johnny Appleseed

When I was little my brother would tell me that if I ate a watermelon seed a watermelon tree would grow in my stomach and I would die. One day my sister was eating a piece of watermelon and I flipped out and started crying.

Abbi Smigle

I honestly believed untill I was 13ish that if you swallowed a watermelon seed it would plant its self into your stomache, grow into a huge melon and make you explode. -and there was nothing any doctor could do about it.

Anon

My brother hated the seeds in green peppers. So, to make sure I didn't let any seeds make there way into a salad, he told me they were poisonous and that eating even one would kill you. Sadly, I very cautiously removed all seeds from green peppers until I was about 12!

SuMac

I thought the caraway seeds in my great aunt's rye bread were mouse droppings, and there was no way I was going to eat that bread.
I also thought Sen-Sen, breath mints?, was really Sin-Sin, and I thought the Methodist Church which I attended should get on the ball and get rid of it as fast as possible.

Janice E. James

When I ate watermelons, I used to swallow the seeds beacause I didnt like to spit them out. One day, I was at my brother friend's house, my brother's friend said "If you swallow the seeds again, after 5 minutes your stomache will exploed!" I was soo freaked out when I heard this I stopped eating watermelons. (not)

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