My mom always told me, "Don't eat the black seeds from the watermelon or one will grow in your tummy!" I always believed her, too...but after a while, I thought, "Wouldn't I have to eat soil, too, so it could grow?"
A childhood belief about watermelons
others believed things like this
- 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 think that if i ate watermelon seeds they would grow out of my ears.— Catherine
- I used to beleive that if you ate a black watermelon seed a tree would grow in your stomach— anonymous
- 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