At some point when I was young my Dad explained to me that if you ever ate a sesame seed it would get to your intestines and poke a hole and escape. It would then travel all around your body, until one day it would pop out through your skin. Any time I went to McDonalds I always had to make sure I ordered the "Hamburger Without Seeds", or else I would have to spend a good amount of time picking off all of the seed while evey one else was happly enjoying their burgers ( I never seemed to worry about other people eating them). I would inspect the backs of my hands to make sure the seeds weren't coming out, for some reasonthat were I thought they exited.
It was only when I was about 20 that I realized one day that seseme seeds couldn't possibly do that! Thanks Dad, for a good 15 years of sesame seed fear :)
A childhood belief about seeds
others believed things like this
- Once my brother said me, the poppy seed in fact is ant. I have not eaten poppy seed for many years.
Anon - Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.— angelsheep
- Eating watermellon seeds will make you grow a watermellon in your belly.Anon
- I used to beleive, that if you swallowed a seed the food would grow in your body.Anon
- I used to believe that sunflowers would try to kill people by shooting poisonous seeds at people.— jen
- I thought birds grew from bird seed. — Jen