For so many years, I believed that when your stomach grumbled it was your stomach digesting itself...this courtesy of my dear old dad. I must have been a teenager when I finally figured out that the noise isn't digestion!
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- I believed the urban legend that gum stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it.— Lindsay
- I thought a stomach ache was a stomach egg— Catherine
- my mom told my sister and I that if you swallow gum, it won't leave ur stomach for 7 years.— Victoria
- I always believed as a child your stomach was a big hand which squeezed your food out through your bum....— amc
- We put food in our mouths, so naturally I believed my stomach was in my head.— Timb
- My Mom used to tell us that if you bit your fingernails, they would cut a hole in your stomach.— Linda B