When I was 7, upon approaching a soda machine with my mom, I was told that Fresca was alcoholic. It turns out she did not want me drinking things with aspartame in them.
A childhood belief about drinks

others believed things like this
- I thought there was a legal drinking age for soda (I had always been told that soda was not for children).— Dial Zero
- Up until I was about seven, I thought soda pop was alcoholic and that's why kids weren't allowed it.Anon
- I used to believe that if you smoked a cigarette while drinking an alcoholic beverage you would blow up!— Sue
- i used to believe that toblerone was alcoholic. my mum told us that so she could have it all.— Cait
- i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara - I used to think, all the way up to eight grade that if you smoked cigarettes you were an alcoholic— praneeth