Every kid in my neighborhood knew for a FACT that if you ate fizzy pop-rocks, and then drank a coke, that your stomach would explode. And of course, everyone also said that it happened to someone at their school.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you would explode if you drank cola and ate pop rocks at the same time.Anon
- I believd that if you ate popping candy and drank softdrink just afterwards your stomach would explode— Kat
- i know someone who used to believe that fizzy mieral water came out of the ground fizzy!!Anon
- I used to belive that if you drank soda pop and ate pop rocks at the same time, your head would blow up. — erin
- My family told me that if I ate uncooked oatmeal that it would swell up and my stomach would explode.— david
- If you swallowed chewing gum it would make a balloon inside you and your stomach would explodeAnon