One time while grocery shopping with my mom and my sister, my mom lost her keys down a grate. Not only did my older sister convince me that we would now have to live in the grocery store, but she also managed to convince me that if we ate watermelon from the store and accidentally swallow a seed, a watermelon would grow in our stomachs and kill us. Still to this day, I refuse to eat a seeded watermelon, and I won't even eat the thin white seeds either.
A childhood belief about seeds
others believed things like this
- If you eat watermelon seeds a watermelon will grow in your tummy and vines will come out your earsAnon
- when you eat the seeds from a watermelon a watermelon will start to grow inside your stomache.Anon
- I used to believe that if you ate a watermelon seed you would grow a watermelon tree in your stomach!!!— Eskimo
- I use to believe (thanks to my Mom) that if I swallowed a watermelon seed a watermelon would grow in my belly.Anon
- I used to think that if i ate watermelon seeds they would grow out of my ears.— Catherine
- If you swallowed a watermelon seed it would grow in your belly— Rachelle