When I was a little girl, I used to believe if I ate pips of watermelons, I would have a watermelon in my belly until I ate a lot and that nothing happened !
A childhood belief about watermelons
others believed things like this
- 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 a watermelon seed it would grow in your belly— Rachelle
- 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 you ate a watermelon seed you would grow a watermelon tree in your stomach!!!— Eskimo
- I used to believe that if you accidentally ate grape pips you 'd get appendicitis.— Sue Beach