My mother-in-law used to tell my daughter that if she ate dry stuffing mix her tummy would swell up and she would explode.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- My family told me that if I ate uncooked oatmeal that it would swell up and my stomach would explode.— david
- I used to believe that my parent was actually stuffing me with tissue when I cut myself.— Colleen
- I used to believe that stuffed animals had blood in them as well as stuffing. Anon
- I was told as a kid that if you kept stuffing a Big Buddies (bubble gum)I would get lock jaw.— Dawn
- i used to think that it you kept the volume off on the teleivision set. it would explode.— kath
- If you don't eat Potato Croquettes in under 1 minute they explode.— Sarah