When I was little I believed that if you ate the white part of the watermelon rind you would die. I have no idea where that came from.
A childhood belief about watermelons
others believed things like this
- My grandpa told me that edible part of the watermelon was blue until you cut them open. Anon
- If you eat watermelon seeds a watermelon will grow in your tummy and vines will come out your earsAnon
- when you eat the seeds from a watermelon a watermelon will start to grow inside your stomache.Anon
- I used to believe that if you ate a watermelon seed you would grow a watermelon tree in your stomach!!!— Eskimo
- I use to believe (thanks to my Mom) that if I swallowed a watermelon seed a watermelon would grow in my belly.Anon
- I used to believe that in old times the world was grey (black and white, i got the idea from old movies) — Bryce