When I was a kid I had an obsession with chewing gum. My mother trying to get me to quit chewing gum told me that gum was made out of elephant Buggers, so I stoped chewing gum.... for years
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- My mother told me chewing gum was made from horses hooves!Anon
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- My girlfriend believed someone who told her that chewing gum was made from dogs bones!— tony
- when i was young i used to believe that chewing gum was made out of cows feetAnon
- my mom made me believe that if i swallowed my chewing gum, it would form one big wad in my stomach.— mimi
- I believed chewing gum was made out of the eyes of deer.— Greg