I used to think that Gatorade had little tiny alligators swimming around in it.

SAVE THE GATORS!

I used to believe that if you drank too much you would get drunk. I didn't know it had to alcohol, so I got very worried after my sister drank a lot chocolate milk as I thought she would get drunk.

Sophie

I used to think that beer was horse pee. Probably because that's what my mom told me...

Kara

I believed there was a man inside the coke machine. If you gave him some money he would put a soda into the chute and it would slide down to you.

Every time I bought a soda, I would yell "THANK YOU" into the chute.

Shane B. ~Atlanta GA

My mom told me that pink lemonade came from female lemons. I didn't clue in until I started taking science in grade seven...

grid

When I was little, I used the think they sold licorice at the liqour store, so when my parents went to the liqor store, i would always ask to come to get licorice

Anon

When I was about 6, my mom told me that if I drank too much water, I will have frogs in my stomach.And every time my stomach was making weird noises(for example-when I was hungry) I was convinced that the frogs were making those noises.

dragos

When I was 5 my grandma and I drove past a restraunt and their sign said "Half price cocktails". I asked my grandma what a cock was and she said a rooster. And I had a fit because I thought they were eating cock's tails.

Anon

Only until recently (aged 48) did my friend think that cafe au lait was actually cafe ole, as in what a bull fighter might say!

Anon

if you drink water from unsafe places, frogs will grow in your stomach...

Olivier

I use to think that coke and pepsi were the same and that the company just got tired of just having just one colorful can...

tinkerbell1232

I used to think that Coke and Sprite were competitors. And that by drinking Sprite I was sticking it to Coke and being cool.

Anon

While out at a restraunt as a kid... every time my grandfather would finish his glass of iced tea, he would tell the waitress that "it seemed his glass had a hole in the bottom of it" and they would always chuckle and the waitress would re-fill it. I always tried and tried to spot the hole or to find out where all the ice tea went to when it came out of the glass... but I never did... until one day when I finally got it.

Ez

When I was little, I thought that ladies were supposed to drink wine and men were supposed to drink beer. I also knew that alcohol was bad for you, so one night I assured my mom that when I grew up, I would drink "only" one bottle of wine each day (I figured that one bottle was one serving, since one can of beer is one serving of beer). My mom was so horrified that she made me promise never to drink it at all.

Years later, she supervised my first drinking experience. I suspect she was comforted when I came to the conclusion that alcohol tastes utterly vile anyway.

Mir

When I was a kid my older brother told me that the pulp in pulpy orange juice was chicken. I still cannot drink orange juice with pulp.

Brian Watkin, FL

I always thought there was a drinking age for coffee, because it was an adult drink like beer and wine.

Anon

When you open a fresh can of soda the carbonation rises out in a steam-like gas. I asked my mom what it was and she must have said it was the carbonation, but I went on for the rest of my life thinking the caffine was coming out of it. (this was cleared up last week.)

My mom and dad didn't want me to drink caffine pop so I would try to suck it out (with my mouth) when it rose up so there wouldn't be any left in the can and, therefore, I wouldn't be drinking it.

I just ignored the "caffine" that rose out of the caffine-free popcans, as that defied my theory.

Carrie

I'm a tea lover and when I first met my now husband he wouldn't touch the stuff.
When he was a child his mother told him tea was a woman's drink and if boys drank it, it shrunk their wee-wee's!! Poor thing, there he was 20 years old and he still believed it!

Another cuppa?

I believed my mother and my grandmother would spit in my drink, to help me grow and be like them. I am strange, I know. After i poured my drink in the cup I would always keep an eye on it.

Jess W.

When I was a pre-schooler, my older brother made me promise never to drink cold liquid from mugs (rather than glasses), as it would dry my mouth out and make me be sick. I still feel uncomfortable if I am obliged to drink anything other than tea or coffee from a mug.

Anon