As a young girl, I had a small body, but a very large stomach and I loved eating watermelons. My grandpa loved to tease me and at one point told me that the reason I had such a big stomach was because I swallowed a watermelon seed and it grew inside my stomach. I was convinced I had a watermelon inside me for a while after that.
A childhood belief about watermelons
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you ate a watermelon seed you would grow a watermelon tree in your stomach!!!— Eskimo
- 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 swallowed watermelon seeds, they would dance around in your stomach at night.— jaalyn
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg
- I use to believe (thanks to my Mom) that if I swallowed a watermelon seed a watermelon would grow in my belly.Anon
- If you swallowed chewing gum it would make a balloon inside you and your stomach would explodeAnon