When I was 5 or 6, my Grandpa used to tell me that if I ate the seeds of watermelons that I would grow watermelons out of my ears. Of course, that just made me eat more of the seeds until I realized that I just wasn't going to grow any no matter how many seeds I ate.
A childhood belief about seeds
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if i ate watermelon seeds they would grow out of my ears.— Catherine
- i used to believe that if you swallowed the seeds from apples, trees would grow out of your ears!— Scott Davenport
- If you eat watermelon seeds a watermelon will grow in your tummy and vines will come out your earsAnon
- I used to believe that if you ate the little seeds on pizza that pizza would grow out of your ears— chana
- Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.— angelsheep
- I used to believe that if I ate a fruit's seeds, a plant would grow in my stomach.— Natalia Castillejo