when i was around 4 or 5 i used to believe that you could eat a watermelon slice whole, chew it, and spit out the seeds like in the cartoons. i was pretty disappointed when i tried that out
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 believe that if I swallowed watermelon seeds, I would get pregnantAnon
- I used to think that if i ate watermelon seeds they would grow out of my ears.— Catherine
- I used to think that watermelon seeds were dead soulsAnon
- I used to believe that if you swallowed watermelon seeds, they would dance around in your stomach at night.— jaalyn