I used to believe if you only chewed food on one side of your mouth, that you would only grow on that side of your body. So, I had to chew evenly on both sides ...
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I chewed on one side of my mouth too much the other side would get jealous.Anon
- I used to believe that when you died no matter what your tongue hung out the side of your mouth. Anon
- I used to believe that if I scratched one side of my body I had to
scratch the other to be "even".— Greg - My mother told me that if I kept sucking my thumb I would grow another one out the side of the first one.Anon
- I used to beleive, that if you swallowed a seed the food would grow in your body.Anon
- i used to beleive that if you chewed gum it woul give you warts in your mouth my sister told me this— sunney jim of the pearl