User blog comment:The Leader/Allow Alcholic Beverages/@comment-987386-20101026213113

In all honesty I don't see anything wrong with alcholol, even though I can't spell the bleeding word for the life of me. In fact, when I'm ill, my Mam makes me a taddy (tea or coffee with whisky). Or sometimes, at evening dinners, I am permitted to have a glass of wine under adult supervision.

In the UK (including Ulster) children 5 and over may legally consume alcohol in their own or someone else's home as long as they are under the supervision of an adult, but for some reason Social Services is completely intolerant of this happening with children under the age of 14.

In the Republic of Ireland the legal drinking (buying and consuming) age is 18, but as long as you are supervised by an adult, they will serve it in a restaurant to a child as young as 14. People aren't too picky about drinking age here. The age is really whenever your parents allow you too. However, most people I know (that actually do drink, alot of people don't, contrary to stereotype), won't touch alcholhol before sunset, and a percentage of them won't get drunk on it.

Even considering these, I wouldn't want it on a children's website. Cream Soda serves as something somewhat similiar to alchohol (Freezelandians are well known for their consumption of it). Perhaps other fizzy drinks could serve as body-altering. (Perhaps flavour shots in coffee could serve as a whisky or rye, and grape juice causes hyperactivity)