They still say today that swallowing chewing Gum makes it stay in you for seven years. If that was the case id be nothing but GUM!
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- i used to think boogers were chewing gum. Gross, i know!— ediop
- I thought you could die from chewing gum while in the shower.— Hollow Head
- i use to belive that chewing gum was a tablet so you only had it if you were ill— Adam
- I was always told that if you swollowed chewing gum your Bum would stick together.— Missa
- When i was a kid i believed that you died if you swallowed chewing gum.— Jonathan