When I was little my grandma told me that if you stood while you were eating. The food doesn't go to your tummy, instead goes in a tummy of a stray dog nearby.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- My mum always told me not to pick my nose and eat it because spiders would grow in my tummy......— Ben
- my nanna told me if I swallowed gum that I would have a gum tree growing out of my tummy— ms pouty
- My sister told me whenever I had a tummy ache it was my unborn twin inside my stomache trying to get out.— Jamie Field
- I used to believe my thoughts came from my tummy.— lollypop
- I used to believe that when you fart, your tummy was breathing!— Nicholas Orsmond
- That bitng my nails would cause worms in my tummyAnon