The internets keep lying to me. T or F it's sooo bad to swallow gum?

[LaraMN]

T or F?
Y or N?

[PeaceNikki]

F

It's not... like good for you... but it's not like sooo bad like your mom said it was.

[LaraMN]

5. I KNEWIT!

Moms are such LIARS!

[KitchenWitch]

1. don't know but I would thing swallowing teeth would be worse.

;)

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Bad if you fill your stomach with it, but if it's just one stick's worth, not bad at all.

Old wives' tale that it takes seven years to digest blah blah blah.

The real issue here is the chewing of gum in the first place, which IS bad. It makes the chewer look like an ignorant cow chewing its cud because it doesn't enough brain to think, and it's gross and rude in public. Something I'd expect from the Palins of the world.

[TK421]

3. I guess I should cancel your shipment of Bubblelicious then

:(

[LaraMN]

4. What is the approximate degree of "bad-ness" of six sticks?

I'm only chewing it at home.
I have to.
It's either that or I start smoking again.

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Probably okay, but it's not beneficial to you at all, so might as well throw it away.

Meaning, there isn't any nutrient value in it (that I know of), so there's no benefit to swallowing it.

And congrats on no smoking! Keep it up!

[Optical.Catalyst]

9. Gum doesn't digest, it collects in your appendix

Swallow enough of it and your appendix will explode and you will die.


Thats what my Great Grandmother used to say.

[siligut]

6. Think about it for a second.

Like marbles or anything else that your digestive system can’t break down it will just pass through undigested.
:thumbsup: On the quit smoking thing!

[MineralMan]

8. Gum's OK, but don't swallow any watermelon seeds.

I've seen women who have done that, walking around with big swollen bellies. Later they get babies and have to take care of them for the rest of their lives. So...be careful around watermelon seeds, OK?

The symptoms for men are different. They get big bellies too, in their 40s, but they don't get babies.

[harmonicon]

10. if you swallow gum, spikes will grow in your stomach

it will also never go away - it will just stay there forever.

These things aren't true, of course, but they are things that my mother told me. I don't know what age I was before I realized that those things were complete shit, and that my sweet old mom is a filthy liar.