Alice (of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland fame) found a bottle on the glass table near a door fifteen inches tall, down the rabbit hole. Printed in large letters on a label around the neck of the bottle was the phrase, 'DRINK ME'.


    It was all very well to say 'Drink me,' but the wise little
Alice was not going to do THAT in a hurry. 'No, I'll look
first,' she said, 'and see whether it's marked "poison" or not';
for she had read several nice little histories about children who
had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant
things, all because they WOULD not remember the simple rules
their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker
will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your
finger VERY deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had
never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked
'poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.


Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 1 -- Lewis Carroll

Alice noted that the liquid in the bottle tasted very nice -- a sort of mixed flavour of 'cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast'. After drinking the entire bottle, she shrank -- becoming ten inches tall. She would later eat a small cake marked (appropriately enough) 'EAT ME'.

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