I was always told that if you swollowed chewing gum your Bum would stick together.
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- My Mum told me that if you swallowed chewing gum, your bones would stick together inside you.— Pauliboy
- My Grand father told me that if i swallowed chewing gum i would stick to the toilet— Mr Jones
- i was told when i was young that if i swollowed gum my stomach would grow teeth to chew it— gammie
- i used to believe that if i swollowed my gum trees would grow in my stoamch:)— [%]~!$mariam~!$[%]
- When i was young i thought a stick shift was when u drive with a stickAnon
- when I was seven my brother told me that if I swallowed chewing gum my arm would drop off.— john