When I was about 9 I was told that if you swallowed your gum then it would be in your digestive tract for 8 years. So I figured that with all the gum I must have swallowed already I'd have gum inside of me for the rest of my life. Thankfully I learned that gum is digested just like everything else. :) I still don't like swallowing my gum anymore though. 0_o
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- My Mum told me that if you swallowed chewing gum, your bones would stick together inside you.— Pauliboy
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- When I was little I use to belief that if we swallowed the pit of a fruit, a tree would grow inside us.— Maya
- If you swallowed chewing gum it would make a balloon inside you and your stomach would explodeAnon
- i used to believe, when i was about 4 years old, that if you swallowed an ice cube you'd die. — Kritikaa
- I believed the urban legend that gum stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it.— Lindsay