I used to believe that if you ate tomatoes, the pips would stick in your appendix and then you would get appendicitis and have to have an operation.
A childhood belief about seeds

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 when you had cramps your appendix would blow up.— Avery
- When i was young i thought a stick shift was when u drive with a stickAnon
- I used to believe that eating too many tomatoes could make you pregnant.— Mariah
- I used to believe that if you ate the pips in apples a tree would grow inside your stomach.— QueenB
- I used to think that tornadoes were giant tomatoes that would sit on top of your house until everyone died.— Maggie