We were told at school by the evil dinner ladies that apple pips contained arsenic.....
A childhood belief about seeds
others believed things like this
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg
- In primary school, a whole bunch of kids including me believed that watermelon seeds contained ants. — Caff
- I used to believe that an Adams apple was a piece of apple that was stuck in someone's throat.— Ron Aaron
- When I was a kid, I used to bellieve that when I eat an apple pip an apple tree would grow up in my stomach!Anon
- I thought the big apple was literally a giant apple in New York Anon
- My dad always told me never to swallow the pips from apples because trees would start growing in my stomach!!— ALISON W