old wives?

[crisgal]

does chewing gum stick to your insides if you swallow it?

Does eating too many pickled onions dry your blood?

Can you get egg bound?

Do you still believe everything your parents told you?

[Sammy Snake]

No, no, no and no!

[smudge]

Gum - Well I've always chewed gum & the amount of times I've had to swallow it just before going into a meeting, I'd be dead by now!

Pickled Onions - Well I don't eat them, but the amount of people I know who do, give blood on a regular basis, so that can't be true either!

Egg Bound - Well I'm not a feathered kind of 'bird', so I can't answer that one.

Parents - Now that I'm older & wiser, I find a lot of what my parents told me as a youngster was right after all.

[brawburd]

no.

no.

eggs can have a constipating effect on some people.

no, but some!

[ezapf]

no, no, no (I thought eggs have the opposite effect, maybe its the coffee I have with the eggs), yes.

[tartanwiz]

The silliest ones I ever heard were that carrots make you see in the dark, fish makes you brainy and crusts (on bread) give you curly hair.  But then, maybe even as we speak there are experiments in some university research lab being carried out to prove just such things as 'truth' :-s

[Gevs1966]

Carrots do make you see in the dark. They contain lots of vitamin B which helps prevent the disease 'night blindness' hence where the saying comes from.

[smudge]

Gevs - I always eaten loads of carrots, but now need spec's for night driving, so as far as I'm concerned it's poppycock!

[Gevs1966]

I was just telling you where it comes from. Carrots help prevent night blindness due to their vitamin content. The fact that you need glasses for driving at night would probably have nothing to do with the disease night blindness or in fact your intake of carrots.

[smudge]

Gevs - Sorry if I've offended you! I already knew that carrots contain Vitamin B, that's why I eat them. My reply was meant as 'tongue in cheek'. :0)