My parents used to tell me that if you ate the black seeds from watermelon you would turn into a big black dog.
A childhood belief about watermelons

others believed things like this
- Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.— angelsheep
- 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 beleive that if you ate a black watermelon seed a tree would grow in your stomach— anonymous
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- When i was a child, i used to believe that when people ate black beans, they became black— Mar'ia Elena