My cousin convinced me that Mountain Dew soda was made when hillbillies climbed up into trees and peed down into buckets. For many years I wouldn't drink Mountain Dew because of this.
A childhood belief about drinks

others believed things like this
- I was convinced that hot air sinks. Why else are mountain tops cold, and Death Vally is so hot?— Not-my-wife
- I thought the Mountain of Olives was made out of Olives— Tanuki
- I used to think that the chorus of "mountain song" by jane's addiction was in a different language— nothing'sshocking
- I used to believe that when I went to the mountain I would find an ancient monster or find some treasure— Yazer Solorzano
- I thought that soda was also called "pop" because if you drink too much of it, you'd explodeAnon
- I was convinced that paper could only be made out of Birch trees (because they had white bark).Anon