Lemonade with trace alcohol banned to Maine minors

In order to prevent the teenagers and college students of Maine from drinking the 28 bottles of Fentiman's lemonade it would take to obtain the alcohol content of a pint glass of beer, the state of Maine is forbidding the sale of a soft drink which has been freely available to minors, without incident, for some time.

Yahoo News reports

Call it a culture clash, trans-Atlantic style. The Brits think the Americans are puritanical and somewhat batty. The Americans find the Brits morally lax and too willing to bend the rules. It all started at a high school in Maine when a student consumed half a bottle of Fentimans Victorian Lemonade, then looked at the label and discovered it contained small amounts of alcohol, listed as less than 0.5 percent. By contrast, a typical American beer usually contains about 5 percent alcohol.

Thanks to the Agitator