food

I used to believe…

if you swallow an apple seed, an apple tree would grow in your belly.

I used to believe…

That when i ate watermelon and swallowed the seends that little watermelons would grow in my stomach.

i used to believe that if you ate a watermelon seed, a watermelon would grow inside your stomach

I used to think that if I accidentally ate a watermelon seed, I would grow a watermelon in my stomach.. I guess that is what I thought had happened to all the pregnant women. Better believe I picked EVERY seed out of my watermelon!

I used to believe…

Up until about 4 years ago, I thought that hens only gave UNfertilized eggs to the farmers and kept the other ones to be hatched into little chicks. Therefore, when I was eating the eggs from the grocery store, I was not technically eating a potential "baby chicken". I felt pretty stupid when I was arguing with a friend about it one day....then it hit me--my dad is a big fat liar.

P.S. I am 30 years old.

I don't competely remember how the conversation went but at the dinner table with my husband's family we were talking about pickles. I must have said that I didn't know where pickles came from. I had seriously never thought about it before. They looked at me in wonder and I said something along the lines of, "don't they grow on trees?" Oh the laughter. I was about 22 at the time. I still get teased today.

I used to believe…

Because my brothers tormented me, I thought that blueberries had worms. They would squeeze the blueberries just right and they would ooze and kinda look like worms were coming out. I refused to eat them and hate them to this day!

I used to eat spinach just like Popeye. I would turn my head to the left so it would go down into my left arm and then to the right. I imagined it going into my arms and making me strong just like him.

I used to believe that if you swallowed an orange seed. an orange tree will grow out the top of my head, my mum always told me so and i was scared of that till high school..

I used to believe that all ice cream started out as vanilla...and then flavors were added in to make it chocolate or strawberry, etc. I thought the vanilla had no flavor at all. I could never understand why some people would actually ask for vanilla ice cream!

I used to beleive, that if you swallowed a seed the food would grow in your body.

i used to believe that if I swallowed a watermelon seed, one would grow in my stomach.

I was told that if I keep swallowing my gum the gum will wrap around my belly button and I will die. So far as an adult I have not swallowed any gum and I am still living. Maybe I will try that on my son.

I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your food

I used to believe…

My mother used to tell me that if you sprinkle salt on a bird it couldn't fly. She used to send me out in the yard with a salt shaker as a kid to try to "catch" the birds.

I used to believe…

When I was young, someone told me (probably my Mom) that if I swallowed bubble gum it would make my ribs stick together. I immediately got a mental image of two of my ribs with bubble gum sticking to both of them. The few times my children have swallowed gum, I have gotten that mental image in my head and quickly scolded them. Even though I know it doesn't stick to your ribs... right. lol.