I was once told that if i swallowed the pips from the grapes, then a grape tree would start growing inside me. So i imagined a fully grown tree coming out of my mouth ! I tried not to swallow any pips after that.
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- My dad always told me never to swallow the pips from apples because trees would start growing in my stomach!!— ALISON W
- I used to believe that if you ate the pips in apples a tree would grow inside your stomach.— QueenB
- I used to believe that if you accidentally ate grape pips you 'd get appendicitis.— Sue Beach
- my nanna told me if I swallowed gum that I would have a gum tree growing out of my tummy— ms pouty
- I used to believe that if you swallowed cherry pits, you would have a tree growing in your stomach.— porkchop
- When I was little I use to belief that if we swallowed the pit of a fruit, a tree would grow inside us.— Maya