I too thought that as we ate the food would just build up in our stomach until we died. I didn't think we were entirely hollow, but just pictured food piling up in this huge stack from the bottom of my stomach up. On top of this stack I always imagined a cherry, like some putrid ice cream sundae.
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- 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
- I used to believe that if you swallowed cherry pits, you would have a tree growing in your stomach.— porkchop
- I used to think that Ice Cream Sundae's you could only buy and eat on Sundays.— Lauren
- I thought when you got food poisoning it might someone had put poison in your food— Bootlebat