My mum told me that i should never eat watermelon seeds as they are poisonous. I still remove all the seeds now and get paranoid when my little boy eats any seeds i never removed!!!

Rags

MY MOTHER TOLD ME ONE TIME THAT I WAS GOING TO DIE BECAUSE I HAD EATEN SOME WATERMELON SEEDS. FUNNY AS IT WAS THEN I WAS TERRIFIED AND CAN REMEMBER CRYING AND TELLING HER PLEASE DON'T LET ME DIE.

CHRISTINA

My parents when grocery shopping late one night and bought a watermelon... by the time we got home it was my bedtime but I really wanted a piece of the melon... My dad, wanting me to go to bed, told me my mom had to cook it first... so when I got up in the morning I asked my mom "did you cook the watermelon yet????" My mom was very confused

Karen

When I was a child, my father told me that if I swallowed a watermelon seed, I would be pregnant. Later that year, my aunt was pregnant and I told her she shouldn't have swallowed that seed. Everyone laughed, except me. I didn't see what was so funny.

Kristie

I was 7 and was staying with my aunt in the country. She grew some vegetables there - cucumbers, pea. Once my uncle brought a watermelon from the market and put it among the cucumbers in the garden. I woke up in the morning and was really surprised to discover that a watermelon had grown in our garden overnight. but lol, I used to believe that up to the age of 12 or so, until my mother put me straight.

Mary

In primary school, a whole bunch of kids including me believed that watermelon seeds contained ants.

Caff

My cousins told me that if you eat the white part of the watermelon rind it will poison you... for years I left a respectful inch of the good stuff above the rind... though I was eventually disabused of the notion.

Vriesea

I used to believe that if you ate watermelon seeds, it would turn the inside of your stomache brown.

Anon

When I was a kid, I used to believe that the green outer rind of watermelons (and for a while, the white part too, lol), was poisonous.

Emily

My grandmother told me once that I couldn't eat watermelon when it was lightning because water "drew" lightning and it would strike me if I ate watermelon! I think this was just to deter me from eating at that particular time and she never told me any different. I believed this until I was a teenager! Be careful what you tell your kids!!!!!

'Lane

this is probably common but I thoght if you ate a watermelon you'd turn into green and the symtoms were...

-You start turning green
-You lose your insides
-You have white stripes

josh

My sister who is 40 years old, mind you, just told me that she heard long ago that if you eat watermelon and lie down, you will die. I said from what? She says you drown somehow? Duh?! How is that possible??? She is 40 and still believes this!

Karen

I used to believe that if you ate those watermellon looking seeds on a sausage pizza that it would grow and get very large, I guess that is why I like the pepperoni and the cheese better.

Jonseie

I used to think that watermelon seeds would blow your stomache up if you ate one,and one time I did .I thought I was going to blow up until my mom,and dad explained to me.

Marissa

I accedently swallowed a watermelon seed on time when i was about 5 and my sister and brother both convinced me it would grow inside of me, and get bigger and bigger until the green leaves came out my nose and my ears and my mouth, and eventually I would die. And there would be a perfectly good watermelon inside of me! EW!

aimee

I used to believe that the white part on the watermelon (right after the pink part) was horribly poisonous. Everytime I ate watermelon I made sure to stay away from the white part!
I believed this up until last year when I was at a birthday party and my friends said I was crazy!

Rainbow