As part of some forced method acting This Troper, who was a technical advisor for a school production of ''Jeckyll and Hyde'', once mixed up a concoction of pickle juice, tonic water, and cough syrup for the potion Jeckyll makes to turn into Hyde.

For this troper, Coca-Cola mixed with blackcurrant syrup (the Cascade Ultra-C stuff) will do the trick. XD Sugar highs are so FUN!

Oh, and when it's been left in my drink bottle for so long, the apple juice that my mum buys for me can turn fizzy. For some reason. it mkaes m type liek trara gilezbuy wen i drrink it adn i talso make me laff lik kkrazzy 4 sum reasoin lol.

This troper's brother when he was a kid once filled an empty beer can with water, walked up to our mom while drinking it and she promptly freaked out thinking her 10 or 11 year old child was drinking alcohol.

This Troper's brother once staggered into class drunkly with a water bottle wrapped in paper towels so no one could see what it really was, and slurred incoherently while taking swigs from it. Needless to say, he got in a lot of trouble for that....)

This Troper does not drink, and only makes any effort to look it at family parties - so pomegrante juice in a wine glass, water for vodka, etc. But somehow she still manages to feel drunk and then hungover the day after if enough people around her become intoxicated.

If there's enough of them, you're probably breathing in vapors from their booze-breath. You're just such a lightweight that that's enough.

This troper was once in a production of {{Shakespeare}}'s ''The Tempest'' that replaced wine with Red Bull. The 11-year-old playing Stephano drank ''three''...

This troper wants to see how that performance went.

Similarly, this troper can personally attest to the effects of drinking about nine cans of soda in less than three hours.

Six litres in less than one hour, of Dew nonetheless. I thought I was going to die from an exploded heart.

The LD50 of caffeine is 192 mg/kg. Six liters of Mountain Dew contains 929.89 milligrams of caffeine. Unless you contain less than 5 kilograms of mass, that's nowhere near a fatal amount.

Unless you are somehow an outlier, like if you have an unusual metabolism, an underling heart defect or are on other drugs.

Same here, although not first-hand as my body is used to stimulants (prescribed for ADHD). On the other hand, I myself experienced a notable subversion shortly after getting to college when someone offered me the rest of their Red Bull. Only after buying a Red Bull myself some number of days later did I realize exactly why I had thrown up shortly afterwards -- Red Bull is not supposed to taste like that...

On a more typical note, I have been known to go IntoxicationEnsues after drinking... absolutely nothing, actually. Just staying up too late will work fine. I write a baseball blog, and the final third of the entry for this year's 15-inning All-Star Game is... rather surreal. Other ways in which I've played this one straight: non-alcoholic beer. Quite often, actually. I like the taste. And, yes, I'm still underage (although in many parts of the world, I wouldn't be.)

I'm the same way. The more tired I am, the more hyper I act (Every once in a while preceding a NonSequiturThud). Caffeine, however, calms me down (I have ADHD...)

Some high school kids in Wisconsin threw a root beer "keg party". The police were not amused, since they only discovered the key word "root" after doing breath tests on everyone present.

This troper's fraternity throws a root beer keg party every fall during rush week (which is dry according to college rules).

BACCHUS (a group that promotes safe drinking) on this troper's campus is loved for bringing a root beer keg to the May Fete picnic every year.

Where are these places? I fucking love rootbeer. '''''TAKE ME. I'M YOURS.'''''

This troper has been in drama for some time now, and appreciates the dramatic catharsis of symbolic action. Which translates into getting a big ol' bottle of sparkling lemonade to drink when depressed, hard-boiled detective style. He also mixes fruit juice and energy drink cocktails. Shaken, not stirred.

This troper comes from a family somewhat laid back about alcohol use ('which one of you kids wants to try a little of mom's red wine?') but not ''that'' laid back. Now that she's much older, when she feels particularly moody or rebellious, she'll practice her non-alcoholic drink mixing with a martini glass, Lignonsaft from Ikea, water, and ice. In a subversion, I once unknowingly participated in the smuggling and consumption of alcohol at her high school campus. A friend was bringing in an assortment of chocolates from a school trip to Europe for lunch, which I carried to the commons for her. Later, when I came back, the candy was significantly diminished-- except for about seven or eight bottle-shaped chocolates of substantial size. Me apparently being contractually genre blind, I'd jumped at the chance for "hey, chocolate!" without even thinking that "hey, alcohol-bottle-shaped hollow chocolates with copious bitter liquid inside" might just equal "alcohol". I ate them almost ''all'' before realising on the second to last that "hey, this tastes weirdly like Triple Sec!" And then I checked the wrappers. IntoxicationEnsues indeed, the rest of the day.

This troper doesn't drink alcohol, and was once at an event which was strictly one-beer-per-person. There was a limited supply - hand stamps were involved. When people saw her drinking [=J2O=] (fruit juice that comes in a very beer-shaped bottle) she was asked no less than five times how she'd evaded the stamp. The funny part? These drinks are ''orange''.

This Troper has mistook [=J20=] for alcohol before, most jarringly when he saw a 3-year old kid drinking it.

Given the beer bottle-like design, I think it's ''supposed'' to make you look like you're drinking alcohol. As for the orange colour, Reef is about 4% ABV.

This troper has been offered wine at family Christmas parties since he was 16. He has always turned it down in favor of Sparkling Cider (the fact that he can't stand the smell of alcohol plays a part too).

Same Troper recently spent two hours working with two other guys on a project for school, only getting the break through we needed in the last ten minutes. As it was Friday, this troper offered to by drinks... from the vending machine. He then declared that only programmers would toast success with a 20 oz. bottle of Mountain Dew.

While in this troper family there is always alcohol, there is one drink and only one drink whose scarcity may cause permanent separations, and fights to death: Tonicol. (A local vanilla soda, sold in northern/western Mexico.)

At university, this troper once noticed some people filling drink glasses in order to celebrate a doctoral disputation. The funny thing about it was that the drink they poured was not champagne or sparkling wine or anything like that, but ''store-brand fruit-flavoured fizzy drink''. Keep in mind that this was intended to be served to people well over the legal drinking age.

Graduate students are very, very impoverished.

And some universities are humorless about drinking on campus without licensed servers.

This troper is known for actively seeking perfectly benign drink mixtures which resemble something entirely different. My two favorites thus far: a proper mix of any cola with Sprite looks exactly like beer, and combining apple juice with regular Mountain Dew tastes surprisingly good... but looks disturbingly like urine.

One of this troper's friends once pointed out to me (and I didn't notice it until they did so) that Lipton Green Tea, my favorite noncarbonated drink, was visibly identical to urine. This has not kept me from drinking it, however. Though I do now find it perversely amusing that it looks the same coming out as it does going in.

Subversion: ThisTroper's troper friend drinks no alcohol. At certain party they were serving hibiscus water to kids (red,sweet and sour) and cranberry juice with vodka to adults. She went with hibiscus water, up to a time when she takes a sip and says "this doesn't taste like hibiscus at all". Lulz ensue briefly, before one of us rushes into the table to prevent a kid serving from the jug.

This troper being the said friend in question believes that bigger lulz ensued once we realized the kids were drinking the "hibiscus water" on the party. One have to give more credit to bratz though, as most only took one sip, realized the water tasted "funny", and just threw it away. Pity as beating the piñata would have been 5 times more entertaining ;)

This troper has an addiction to Manhattan Specials, which are apparently only sold in New York, impossible to get anywhere else, and ''really'' hard to find even in Queens (which, for non-NYers, is just one bridge away from Manhattan). They come in glass bottles with metal twist-off caps and look disturbingly close to dark beer. The twist? Manhattan Specials are ''coffee soda'', made entirely from coffee, carbonated water, and sugar. In that order. And yes, they are strong enough to cause CaffeineBulletTime.

This troper has, in fact, gotten drunk on water. Yes, ordinary water. The experience was complete with all the normal effects including a hangover afterwards. This is a real thing that can happen when someone drinks enough, and the experience was enough to turn him off of alcohol for life.

This troper has as well (it was a ''very'' hot summer that year), though, being part-Irish, will inevitably still drink beer.

Once, when this troper was in High School, she got drunk on a 2 Liter of Mountain Dew Code Red. Also, she doesn't drink alcohol, but does drink Mexican sodas that, with their glass bottles and bright colors, look like some varieties of wine coolers. She's waiting to get called on it...

You would love the "Tonicol" original bottle then, it very easy to confuse with beer ;)

This troper has fond memories of the days when he could walk into his workplace with a full 2-liter bottle of Mountain Dew and leave at 5:00 with an empty bottle... and still sleep like a rock that night, to do it all over again until Friday. This troper also giggles over the fact that the phrase "mountain dew" originally referred to moonshine, until the people who made the original non-acoholic carbonated beverage co-opted the name. And thirdly, given the herbal derivatives and combinations found in various "smart" drinks, it is possible to spark a weekend-long argument about whether these "natural" additives are more dangerous than a few frothy mugs of Mass-Brewed American *cough* "beer". This troper will happily join you in lining up 99 different bottles of microbrew on the wall...

Hey, that explains the hillbilly on the bottles of Throwback.

This troper was once walking around his neighborhood with a friend of his carrying bottles of Fitz's (a soda company from St. Louis) Root Beer. We happened to take off the labels, and we were stopped by my friend's uncle who jokingly asked where we got the beer, an annoying housewife speaking on the phone in her minivan, and some teenagers asking us where we had gotten the beer.

This troper was involved in a production of Jesus Christ Superstar where the cast loathed the stage manager. On the final night, he made some rather graphic threats about what would happen if anyone did anything stupid onstage. In retaliation, the disciples pulled an elaborate prank (details withheld. You wouldn't believe it.) involving fake real wine at the Last Supper. According to one of the technical guys the stage manager nearly had a heart attack. Revenge is sweet.

Oh, but we ''would'' believe it! We would! Tell us!

This troper was in a high school production of a Spanish play involving a character with a hip flask. Of course the hip flask's contents were filled with colored water. The catch? Come on, we were high schoolers -- the actor had poured it out before the show and filled it back up with rum. People kept commenting on the realism of his performance...

Ever heard of "Aguas locas?

ThisTroper was around 10 years old and once went out with her cousins. The eldest of the group (who was around 18 back then) had brought some cans that were... different from the sparkling beverages ones she also was carrying along for us kids and was suspiciously careful and secretive when handling them. When she wasn't looking, the troper managed to sneak closer and take a sip... and had to spit it out since it was SO bitter. And that was the tiny silly little troper's first experience with beer.

Inversion(?): Someone a friend of this troper's knew once put rum and a few other alcoholic drinks in a Dr. Pepper bottle and brought it to school. Not one teacher commented on it, since Dr. Pepper is sold at the school.

This troper's college had an 'Alcohol Awareness Week', and in the cafeteria they were serving free "Mocktails", mixed drinks that were orange soda and Sprite with splashes of fruity syrup and a lime wedge. This troper got into a debate with the people serving them over the logic of demoting one drug (alcohol) while promoting another, more addictive drug (caffeine). The argument ended like this: #QUOTE#'''Teacher:''' Well, you don't endanger the lives of others every time you drink a Mountain Dew. #QUOTE#'''This Troper:''' Maybe YOU don't.

Wait, which one of those items has caffiene?

The Mountain Dew, of course.

I think he meant in the Mocktail... Sprite has always been Caffeine-free, don't you know?

Incidentally Mountain Dew doesn't have caffeine in Australia.

More proof Australia is freakish and possibly evil.

This troper has been reading this page in mounting horror as the idea of a nation having a drinking age of above 16 is inconvenient and above 18 is frankly barbaric, and just fell off his chair laughing. There are nations where you can vote, own a car or gun, have a child or serve in the armed forces but not drink, and its the idea of no caffeine in the Mountain Dew people have a problem with? I'm so glad I've never lived outside of Europe.

It gets better. At least in Ohio, your parental guardian can give you alcohol while you're under 18, but when you turn 18, you lose that guardianship, as you are now an adult, sort of. However, you still can't drink on your own until you're 21, leaving a three-year gap in which you can't drink. So... what are you in those years? A kid? Adult? Teenager? Something else? Errr... we dunno.

This troper had just come back from lunch (eating the sandwich during the walk back) and was sitting in the back of the lecture hall drinking IBC root beer, which comes in what looks a lot like an unlabeled beer bottle, especially in that dimly lit room. Another student who passed by saw the bottle and said "Having a beer during class? You got some balls!"

This troper was in a play that required him to take shots of whiskey onstage. Since having actors consume hard liquor onstage is never a good idea, it was substituted with water and iced tea crystals. In a bit of EnforcedMethodActing, it was never the same consistency twice, resulting in genuine reactions.

This troper's had bought an iced green tea from a coffee shop before taking a test at college. She had the tea with her during class, in a clear plastic cup, and the ice had melted. Someone asked her if she was drinking white wine.

This Troper has been known to drink more soda than he should when he is feeling down. Complete with putting my head down on the table and clutching the bottle.

This Troper loves his bottled root beers from cafes more than anything else in the world. Only Dad's and Henry Weinhard's is palatable for this troper. If not on beer, coca cola with syrup is also a suitable replacement.

...coca cola with syrup? ...you mean like waffle syrup?

No, like soda fountain syrup. Chocolate, vanilla, orange mixed in with the cola syrup. Yummm..... (I'm guessing you're too young to remember soda jerks. Back when being a jerk was a job and a good thing!)

The class of 2008 at this trooper's High School set up root beer pong in the gym as part of their senior prank. The Principal, who happens to be a nun, wasn't ammused.

There's a candy store near This Troper's school that sells wax bottles, two inch tall bottles made out of wax (duh) and filled with snow cone syrup. So we pooled our money and bought 66 of them. We each got 22. I'm not allowed in the candy store anyore.

ThisTroper has a tendency to mix stuff like coke or pepsi with various colorful non-alcoholic drinks such as various flavors of fanta. Been asked if it was beer countless times. Also, when I was 4 I drank what I thought was the remains of someone else's lemonade. Of course, it wasn't.

This troper regularly runs Dungeons & Dragons games while drinking alcohol. Yes, she can get tipsy at times. However, she can't have caffeine, but she also can't have DIET soda due to artificial sweeteners making her loopy (rare is the bodega that sells non-diet, gold label soda). One time a gaming buddy thought he'd be helpful and bought her diet Sprite. She's been more coherent after five servings of alcohol.

The College this editor attended took over a farming college near the town; the farming college went from having a student bar to enforced temperance. They replaced it with a ''coffee bar'' - and here's the kicker - it only opened from '''18:00!'''

That's 6:00 P.M. for those of you who don't know military time.

Military time? Good Grief. This Troper has had dozens of civilian jobs were people give you odd looks if you don't use 24 hour clock reverences when asking the time. There is noting inherently military about using 24h notation. The again, I've had jobs with beer in the vending machines. Although I love being British you have to admit those dastardly Germans do some things right. Like beer in the lending machines and lager sold at Mc Donald's. This difference in national laws caused some fun when, a long time ago when I couldn't have been over 17, on a school trip in Austria (Saalbach) where the legal drinking age was 16 This Troper ran into some American students of a comparable age. I was an experienced skier and had my parent's permission to ski without the supervision of my teachers and was stopping for lunch. With my lunch I had a large weißbier and could not convince the yanks in question that it was NOT a foamy mug of water. So I went and brought a litter of Stroh 80 to prove that no one was going to prevent them buying booze. Then their teachers arrived and prevented them from buying booze. LOL

Once at a wedding, this troper switched his sparkling grape juice with his mother's wine. She never noticed.

Trope sustained: It's illegal to drink or be inebriated on the set of a motion picture, a fact this troper did not find out until the third night on the job as an extra. There was a LOT of downtime waiting between shots and a lot of bottled water to drink, and at one point I stepped into a bar to recycle some of it, and on the way out asked the bartender to add a little vodka. She decided to fill it up ''completely'', and I returned to the set swigging my frothy bottle of water, and no one was the wiser. I tipped well.

When this troper was in college, he learned that scattering lots of empty IBC Root Beer bottles on the floor of his room and lying down right before the weekly clean room-check was actually not such a good idea.

This troper used IBC bottles as a legal (and tasty) stand in for beer bottles for taping a "mess after the party" scene.

"Mocktails" are popular at parties put on by this troper's school or organizations which are restricted by school rules. This troper recently went to a party which went an extra step and dropped skittles in certain cups as stand-ins for roofies in a drug awareness exercise.

Not really what I do, but I'll put it here because it's not what the creators did. In the StarTrek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles," Chekhov drinks vodka. He pronounces it with a Russian accent, so it sounded a lot like "water" to me. Scotty's line dismissing it as "soda pop" made no sense to me.

Well he is Scottish. That stuff is flavorless compared to scotch.

it tastes... GREEN.

Once, this troper's little sister was drinking some iced tea in a beer jug. (I don't know the details.) Unfortunately, it was kind of frothy. Dad walked in. What do you think he thought?

This Troper was at a party hosted by her cousin. She really wanted me to try some nasty "caffeinated" beer. So, I took the can, poured the contents down the sink, rinsed it out and filled the can with orange soda.

This troper's ''entire family'' is a subversion: At every year's New Year's Party, we toast the new year with wine glasses -- filled with sparkling grape juice. Or occasionally some other kind of sparkling fruit juice. No alcohol is ever involved (this troper's entire extended family doesn't drink) but it sure would look like it to anyone who doesn't know.

This troper doesn't have a full family of subversion, but does enjoy a champagne flute full of sparkling white grape juice during a celebration.

This Troper's mother is a pastor who at one point was youth pastor for a local church. She once walked past several of her teenage students sitting on the steps drinking Barq's root beer. out of silver cans. She paused and asked them if they were drinking beer. One quick-thinking jokester held up his can with a thumb casually held over the word "root," and said, "Yup. Barq's Old Tyme Beer." She laughed.

This Troper is Teetotal. However, on a particular New Year's Eve party at her house, she'd been drinking J20 the whole evening, and towards the end was feeling kinda tired. Her mother brought a camera out, and several pictures were taken. Upon viewing them the next day however, said troper found one which had been taken of her - in which she looked drunk to high heaven (tired, remember?), whilst holding a mysterious bottle (of which the label was obscured) with a strange yellow liquid in it (J20). Many laughs were had by family and friends.

This Troper was once at a get-together (everyone was underage, by the way) where one of his friends was on the phone with his parents. As soon as he had told them that there was no alcohol, someone nearby opened a can, causing him to frantically tell his parents that it was a Coke. It really was, but it was still an awkward and hilarious occurrence.

This troper's sister always used to hand me a can of Beer so she could drag over my dad and go "Hey look, your son is drinking!", to which my dad always nonchalantly pointed out I don't drink. a few years later, this is still the conclusion you can reach seeing me with a beer, I only drink the hard stuff because I'm simultaneously a natural heavyweight and it tastes better.

This troper was in an RPG. One of the characters, a Russian, carried vodka everywhere. When anyone asked him what it was he would say "It's just a little water." He explained the BilingualBonus, but not before getting a character who didn't know the "water" was vodka to drink way too much of it.

This troper has a tendency to act out the Film Noir Depressed At The Bar scene with a glass or bottle of root beer or creme soda or a bottle of Mountain Dew, knowing the value of symbolic catharsis as do many tropers above. Since he gets loopy in a too-mellow way when tired, caffeine-free sugared drinks make him even loopier and in want of more sugared drink until the inevitable crashwe have no "hangover" trope... To the YKTTW page!, and caffeine just mellows him out even more, the few parties he enjoys enough to stay at typically end with him effectively more drunk than any of the alcohol-consuming adults. (Additionally, he used to drink hot sauce, especially from shot glasses or as part of a GargleBlaster from a tequila shooter, until he stopped to avoid taking much more damage from pepper burns.)

This Troper's little sister inverted this way back when she was 5 (and I was 6.) We'd been visiting our great-grandmother's house to celebrate the fourth of july, and we're sitting outside and having fun and yadda yadda... I'm not paying attention at the time but my little sister walks right up to my mother. ''While my mother has her eyes directly on my little sister'', she picks up our mother's wine cooler and takes a big, long drink. You can see the gears grinding in mom's head... *grrrr..grrrrr'''''DING!'''''* "GWAAAAH NO *snatches wine cooler back*"

@/{{0dd1}}: Half the time when INeedAFreakingDrink, I go with...caffeine-free CocaCola. ...*gulp--ah!* That hit the spot.

Amperschwa has had little experience with liquors. Now, I do love to obfuscate stupidity and act drunk at school when I'm not, but when I am, most people would most likely dismiss it as a lie.

This troper has been sober for 13 years but doesn't want to be the killjoy when out with his friends. Thankfully, the bartender understands and pours my Pepsi into beer mugs for me.

This troper was visiting a friend of the family when she was six, and hung out with their 10-year-old nephew. She was rather shocked when I pulled out a cigarette and lit it, and nervously asked if he smoked. "Sure" he replied, before peeling off the paper on the 'cigarette' and eating the chocolate inside.

This troper hates the taste of alcohol, which other people find so strange to the point that her -parents- try to make her drink at get-togethers. She does pretend to drink when partying with her friends though, and have made it through quite a few drinking games without drinking more than a few sips.

This Troper is the same way. I can't stand the taste of alcohol. My Aunt once drunkenly tried to get me to drink. She wouldn't take no for an answer from me and my dad backed my up. I was 24 at the time hehehe.

At this Troper's high school, some kids talked two teachers into playing Water Pong. The students were soundly beaten.

Inversion: A common trick at this troper's college is keeping vodka in water bottles.

This troper and her favorite cousin get hyper, giggly, and slightly slurred whilst drinking sparkling grape juice. We also like candy cigarettes.

This troper doesn't drink (he did it only three times, with single glasses of champagne, on New Year's, and didn't like it very much) - he usually justifies by saying he's bad enough sober. Yet as far back to High School people are trying to get him drunk, getting even worse during college (worst of those: senior insists on me having a drink and insists to the point of annoyance; when we cross paths again, I throw water on her, and her sister throws beer on me; ''I'm bad enough sober!''). But more to the point of the trope: a classmate of this troper once drank a vodka-enhanced soda without knowing (prompting the class drunk which caused this to cheer: "I always wanted you to get you high!"). The troper himself almost fell for this, because he forgot he was holding his own soda cup - his two classmates watching it laughed copiously - promptly spitting, and shortly later comparing himself to Bill Clinton with a certain herb.

This troper did this during an exam at college. He brought the usual exam-snackfood: an apple, a double sandwich, and a Jack Daniel's bottle. Filled with apple juice. He got some weird looks from the examinator, let him tell you.

This troper likes to keep a lot of shot glasses around because they're the perfect size for taking medicine and mean I don't have to commit to an entire glass of orange juice or what have you. Problem is, that is a tad difficult to explain when you're eighteen, American, and don't live with your parents anymore.

This, underaged, troper always drinks Maltas, especially in the summer. She usually just gulps them down. Her dad has made a few comments about how she would make a good drinker. Which is ironic since she plans on never drinking alcohol. Likewise, this troper once wondered why when her family was making a toast why couldn't they use egg nog so she could toast too. She also has an affinity for juices and milk.

This troper was just in a production of ''TheWildParty'', and for liquor we used empty liquor bottles filled with water. However, some of the bottles hadn't been washed out very well, so some of the water actually did taste like alcohol -- not enough to actually get us drunk, fortunately. (Or unfortunately, depending on who you ask.)

Another theatre tale from the above troper: I recently appeared in ''TheRockyHorrorShow'' as one of the phantoms. During the first act, I ate some popcorn on stage, which made me thirsty for the rest of the act. I didn't have a drink with me, so during intermission I decided to steal a sip from somebody else's. I found someone's water bottle, poured a little into the cap, drank it...and was shocked when the "water" turned out to be vodka and started burning my mouth. Thank God I didn't take a big swig of it, or I could have been one tipsy little phantom!

This trope was inverted by my upperclassmen as well as my classmates. They all smuggled beer the same way -- filling bottles of green tea with it. No one can tell the difference without smelling the beverage.

This troper shares a very silly joke with her professors during any sort of major festival. She always comes into class with a tall bottle and several classy plastic cups, and pours out several glasses of what looks to be champagne to share with the staff, telling them it's the good stuff. It's just a really good brand of sparkling apple cider. Sadly, due to what it looks like, the professors usually wait until the end to have some, but it's always hilarious to see their faces when I ask for a bottle opener before showing them exactly WHAT I need it for.

They sell sparkling water at Starbucks that may qualify, if you don't look at the bottle for too long. This was an indispensable "prop" when this troper decided to {{Cosplay}} as Lusca from {{Enzai}}.

This troper once took a Japanese course in college where we had do skits and were encouraged to bring in props. Two of my classmates once brought in a pack of bottled root beer to stand in for beer during their skit. After class, the guy who brought them asked if anyone wanted one for the road and began handing them out. Cue our teacher freaking out...she thought he was passing out bottles of actual beer to underage classmates. We had to explain to her that root beer was non-alcoholic.

This troper had a good time with this trope as well back when i was still in Junior High. We was making a skit for a chrismas show that the last years have to do, and my character was a stoner with a drinking problem, hence we found an old 1 l whiskey bottle and filled it with earl gray tea, gelatin, and a third thing (which i can't remember) so it looked just like a creamy whiskey. doing each skit of 5 minutes i drank a full bottle, cue funny looks from the audience.

This troper was Lamar in a performance of Godspell and the "wine" was actually Vimto. Hilarity Ensued on the second (and last) night when I drank 4 litres of the stuff before going on stage (well, more "before going to the lighting box", but still...).

I had a college roommate who got totally wasted on SUGAR COOKIES.(I made them so I know they were just regular cookies)She was raised a total health nut. I convinced her to eat some junk food at a totally G-rated party. She ate like a dozen cookies and stated acting all loopy and eventually passed out. She had told me she had a freaky metabolism and after that I believed her. The ironic thing is I’m a nondrinker who people were always trying to convince to drink.

This troper’s GI cousin was yelled at and nearly got in big trouble for drinking on duty. He was drinking rootbeer in a glass bottle.

My high school gave out champagne flutes as prom favors. Subversion in that, unlike some examples I've seen, there was no explanation or excuse for this. Much wisecracking ensued.

In high school, my friends and I used to get together at one house for New Years', and our drink of choice has always been sparkling grape juice. One time, the host's father accidentally brought down a bottle of real champagne. She and I noticed, gave each other "oh crap" looks, and then she had me quickly run it upstairs again before someone else saw it.

This troper played a major role in a short film, where his character was supposed to take a handful of aspirin pills in several different shots in the same scene. Someone in the production decided to skimp on the budget, and instead of getting sugar-water placebos decided to use sweet-n-low pellets. This troper had to eat roughly 100 of them before the shooting day was over. He'd much have preferred actual aspirin - death would've been a better substitute for that awful, awful taste.

This troper witnessed an inversion when I was at my first D&D session with a new group pf players, n a dorm. Three of them kept suspiciously sharing sips from a bottle of Chocolate Milk. I didn't know for weeks if they were kidding or trying to hide their Baileys from the RAs. It was the latter.

A hilarious subversion at an Elementary School Christmas Picnic

This is in Dubai, which is supposedly Alcohol Free (but not really)

'''Mum:''' Okay, who wants some kid's champagne (aka sparkling grapejuice)?

'''Siblings:''' Me, me!

'''Troper:''' Wouldn't it be funny if it was real champagne?

'''Mum:''' Hahaha it would. *pouring drinks*

'''Troper:''' Although we would probably get kicked out.

'''Little Sister:''' *sips*

*beat*

'''Little Sister:''' Mum, are you ''sure'' this is kids champagne?

*others drink*

'''Troper:''' Oh my god, it's real champagne.

'''Mum:''' Whoops.

Needless to say, we all had a great laugh once we got home. But at the picnic, we basically just hid the bottle in the cooler for the rest of the event.

This troper was a licensed mixologist (meaning that, in theory, he could have legally worked as a bartender) for a number of years, in spite of being a complete teetotaler.

I know a kid who drank two Orange Crush cans, three Coke cans, a bottle and a half of Dr. Pepper, a glass of water and a large bag of Twizzlers. He acted almost drunk, staggering around the halls laughing crazily and finally almost passing out. It was ''hilarious''.

This Troper, while disliking the effects of alcohol (and resultant hangovers), loves the excuse it gives her to act like a loony in public. It leads to a little confusion when she's dancing on a table and her friends realise she's been sipping water all night.

This Troper's school absolutely prohibits thermoses or unopened water bottles in school for exactly this reason. The only exception is when the weather is so dangerously hot that any sane person would call school off... ''then'' they allow water bottles. Oh, how helpful.

This troper witnessed an inversion in the last class of her spring semester, a three-hour evening class: a student brought a liter bottle of Schwepps, and was informing his neighbors that it was really a giant gin and tonic. Well done, sir.

This troper's brother once bought some "juice" from a store without anyone (including this troper's brother) knowing it was alcohol, despite being in the same bottle as wine. He jokingly remarked that if it were actually wine he would be drunk after a single glass. However, he figured out the "juice" actually was wine before he finished the glass due to the smell, preventing him from actually getting drunk.

This troper has been mildly drunk due to doing chromatography (note to self: remember in future that butan-2-ol fumes are incredibly intoxicating.)

More to the point, this troper gets drunk off parties. Not the stuff drunk at parties, the parties themselves.