my older sister told me that if you accidentally swallowed chewing gum it wandered around inside you and could get tangled all round your ribs and suffocate you. I still don't chew gum!
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
- If you swallowed chewing gum it would make a balloon inside you and your stomach would explodeAnon
- when I was seven my brother told me that if I swallowed chewing gum my arm would drop off.— john
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- My Grand father told me that if i swallowed chewing gum i would stick to the toilet— Mr Jones
- My cousin thought ribs at restaurants were people ribs.Anon