When I was five or six, I asked Diddee, my grandmother, what happened to food after you swallowed it. She told me that it went to your stomach, where it was made into stuff that your body could use, just like we prepare food for cooking with a chopping board and a knife. For years afterward, I thought of my stomach as containing a chopping board and knife.
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a weegie board was some sort of surf board.— Missa
- I used to beleive, that if you swallowed a seed the food would grow in your body.Anon
- I always believed as a child your stomach was a big hand which squeezed your food out through your bum....— amc
- We put food in our mouths, so naturally I believed my stomach was in my head.— Timb
- my cousin uded to belive that hiccups were caused by the food in your stomach colliding.— Christine
- my mom made me believe that if i swallowed my chewing gum, it would form one big wad in my stomach.— mimi