I once asked my dad why boys grew an adams apple and girls didn't. He said that when my brother gets to be a certain age he'll make him swallow an apple, it'll eventually shrink and get stuck there forever. I went and told my brother I was glad I was a girl!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that an Adams apple was a piece of apple that was stuck in someone's throat.— Ron Aaron
- When I was little my uncle had a huge adams apple. He told me he'd swallowed a marble.— Stacey
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg
- When I was a kid, I used to bellieve that when I eat an apple pip an apple tree would grow up in my stomach!Anon
- I thought the big apple was literally a giant apple in New York Anon
- We were told at school by the evil dinner ladies that apple pips contained arsenic.....Anon