When I was little my uncle told me that if I swallowed my gum i'd get worms in my stomach.
After that whenever I accidentally swallowed a piece of gum I imagined garden worms wriggling around inside my stomach.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I use to believe that if I ate to much sugar just by itself, it would become worms inside my stomach.Anon
- If you swallowed chewing gum it would make a balloon inside you and your stomach would explodeAnon
- I used to think that if I ate sugar out of the sugarbowl I would get worms in my stomach.— Arc
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg
- my mom made me believe that if i swallowed my chewing gum, it would form one big wad in my stomach.— mimi
- i used to believe that if i swallowed beens,,a tree would grow in my stomach :P— fatma