My parents once told me that if i ate the black seeds in watermelons, i would choke on them and i would be unconcious for hours until a watermelon grew in my throat and then they would have to take me to the hospital to they could cut my throat open and take the watermelon out...then the doctors would eat it...i accidentaly swallowed one once when i was about 6...i wouldnt stop crying. :)

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When I was 4, I used to be a huge fan of the Nickelodeon show Rugrats. There's an episode were Angelica tells Chuckie that if he swallows a watermelon seed, it would grow inside him and he would blow up. This scared the crap out of me, so I stayed as far from watermelon as possible. Looking back I realize what a naive little girl I was!

Smurfette

When I was about 7 or 8, my sister (7 years older than me) convinced me that the pips in strawberry jam where little insect eggs that would hatch and grow inside me.

I have since discovered that she just liked the strawberry jam herself and didn't want me to eat it all.

Sisters!

Anon

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

My dad would always tell us that seeds for ccoking and on buns were bugs, I always tried to look for the legs.
He would also always say"It will put hair on your chest", which was horrifying to a girl.

Kandice

I once swallowed a watermelon seed and freaked out afraid a watermelon would start growing. I remembered a couple days before I accidentally ate dirt and so I freaked out because I also drank some water to wash it down so I thought I just sprouted a watermelon.

Anon

My sister told me that the pips and liquid inside tomatoes were poisonous, and that you were only supposed to eat the skin. I think this was because she hated tomatoes and she wanted me to dislike them too. I don't remember when I was disabused of this belief, but it must have happened, because the slimy bit in teh middle is my favourite part now.

Rhube

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 a watermelon seed you would grow a watermelon tree in your stomach!!!

Eskimo

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

chana

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

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

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.

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

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'