If you swallow a watermelon pit

• what 'stories' were you told as a child that you - believed?
  • This is going to sound terrible - Margaret
  • If you go outside in the cold with a wet head you'd get sick...sm - Just thought of another...
    • my mom said same thing about wet head... - and my entire life I go out with wet head! LOL..s
  • When our rich uncle got out of the poor house we'd be rich...sm - KCGaltoo
  • My mom had this thing about CAVES. She would always tell me - (sm) - Unruly Julie
    • And here's another funny one for 'ya...... (sm) - Unruly Julie
      • LOL that is so funny- I used to think - Margaret
  • if you swallow an orange pit, an orange tree..LOL - grows in your stomach (among other tales told)
  • Can only remember 1 thing - we would go to the Jersey - sm - Laura E.
    • Well I guess that would explain the rotten egg smell! - sm
  • Eat your bread crust and it will make your hair curly! nm - jinx
    • LOL! I was told it made your hair shiny and grow faster! - Margaret
    • OMG! My mom told me that too! I ate the crusts and still have poker straight hair. nm - Jersey Girl
  • If you whistle, it makes the Virgin Mary Cry - Speed Queen
  • "when my ship comes in" - maam1
  • My dad told me that I got the chicken pox from playing in the chicken coop. I believed him for years - NC Newbie
  • I once asked my mom why we hadn't - Misha
  • My dad used to tell me sm - Glo
  • If I looked in the mirror too much . . . - Mimi
  • My brother told me that he watched my Mom - tear up the "divorce tickets" they got
    • This is actually a sweet one- - Margaret
  • If you swallow a watermelon pit - sm
    • We were told it'd give you appendicitis. - Georgia Gal
    • LOL, me too, also that gum would all congeal and stop you up. - tnmt
      • No,no. I know from reliable sourse that gum makes - your insides stick together. nm
        • reliable source? Want to prove it here please... - I think it's pure bunk about gum......NM
  • The Jersey Devil! - Jersey Girl
    • oooh, the Pine Barrens. Is that near Burlington? (grew up in North J) - Meadow
      • Yep. Burlington County is a big part of the Pines. nm - Jersey Girl
  • If you cross your eyes, they'll freeze! - sm
  • My uncle told me each teat on a cow gave different kinds of milk (sm) - tnmt
    • Or if you step on a crack - Margaret

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Who has made this?  I'm a canning fiend right now.  I did 20 pounds of tomatoes last night and want to do the watermelon rind preserves.  I found this recipe in my Ball Blue Book.  I'm curious as to how they taste.  I've got my watermelon rind doing a long soak in salted water right now.  It sounds gnarly but hey, it's free, right?

I'm making some pumpkin/zucchini soup right now to freeze in my new chest freezer.  It's to die for.  Well, maybe.  I've never used zucchini in it, but what doesn't taste good with a little zucchini?

Okay, babbling over.