when i was 4 or 5 i was at my grans house watching tv and eating an apple when my gran turned it over to a gardening program. in the program they were talking about seeds an how they grow i dropped the apple out of my hand an ran to my grandad crying saying that my gran wanted me to turn into a tree because she always told me to eat the pips!!!
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
- 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 used to believe that a tree would grow inside you if you ate the seed of an apple or any other fruit!Anon
- I used to believe that if you swallowed an apple seed, a tree would grow in your belly.— Rachel
- We were told at school by the evil dinner ladies that apple pips contained arsenic.....Anon
- I used to believe that an Adams apple was a piece of apple that was stuck in someone's throat.— Ron Aaron