My dad once told me that if you ate the seeds in an apple you would be smarter, so on my first day at school i ate an apple whole at lunch-time. When my teacher asked me why, i told her what my dad said and she just laughed at me. It took me a long time to realise why she had laughed.
A childhood belief about seeds
others believed things like this
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg
- I used to believe that an Adams apple was a piece of apple that was stuck in someone's throat.— Ron Aaron
- When I was a kid, I used to bellieve that when I eat an apple pip an apple tree would grow up in my stomach!Anon
- I thought the big apple was literally a giant apple in New York Anon
- We were told at school by the evil dinner ladies that apple pips contained arsenic.....Anon
- I used to think that apple juice was beer and I'd drink it all the time and pretend to be drunk.— Dee