there was once a commercial for diet pepsi with ray charles and and some back-up singers, they sang that "diet pepsi will take your breath away" and i thought it was literally going to take my breath away because i was too young to drink it
A childhood belief about drinks

others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you mixed a diet drink with a regular drink, it would explode. Anon
- when I was little, I called coke and pepsi "Black Juice"— can I have a refil on the black juice?
- If you hold your breath and make a wish under a highway tunnel it will come true....I still hold my breath :)— aj
- I used to believe that my dogs diet was clothes, because that was all I ever saw him eating— kay
- My dad used to tell me that "smoked" bacon came from pigs that had been fed on a diet of kippers !!!— Tony . Newcastle on Tyne
- I held my breath near cemeteries because I thought it would be rude to inhale spirits. Anon