Thirty Strange Things We All Said as Children Looking Back

28. "A Watermelon Is Going To Grow In Your Stomach"

If you ate one of the watermelon seeds, did your elder siblings ever tell you that a watermelon would develop within of your stomach? There was a moment of time when everyone thought a watermelon would grow and believed.

Should a seed be consumed, there was a small risk that fruits or vegetables would grow within the stomach. This was not too unusual.