My mum told me that if you ate fruit pips they were stored in your appendix, and that if you ate too many you would get appendicitis. She also told me the one about chewing gum wrapping round your heart if you swallowed it. It's a wonder I ate anything when I was small.
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you accidentally ate grape pips you 'd get appendicitis.— Sue Beach
- I used to believe that if I swallowed chewing gum, it would wrap around my heart and strangle me— "Tusitala"
- when I was seven my brother told me that if I swallowed chewing gum my arm would drop off.— john
- My Mum told me that if you swallowed chewing gum, your bones would stick together inside you.— Pauliboy
- 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