When I was 5 or so, I believed that if while I was eating a grapefruit and swallowed a pit, it would grow in my stomach and pop out of my navel.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if i swallowed beens,,a tree would grow in my stomach :P— fatma
- I thought that if I swallowed grapestones, a tree would grow out from my stomach. — Tone
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg
- I believed the urban legend that gum stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it.— Lindsay
- When I was a kid I believed that if you swallowed a fruit pip that treees would grow from your ears.— Liz Smith
- my mom made me believe that if i swallowed my chewing gum, it would form one big wad in my stomach.— mimi