Kool-Aid

[jaybee]

And how do you like to prepare it? Any secret recipes?

[Dave the Cook]

Used to pour it straight out of the envelope onto vanilla ice cream. Flavor was secondary to the sugar and citric acid rush.

Lately, whatever Jinmyo recommends.

Edited February 3, 2003 by Dave the Cook (log)

[Varmint]

I was about to post the different Kool-Aid flavors before I realized how many different ones there are.

Kool-Aid Website

Of course, my mother had us drink Tang for breakfast. C'mon, if it was good enough for the astronauts, it was good enough for us.

[britcook]

Kool-Aid has distinguishable flavors? Life is full of surprises, you'll be telling us next that Jell-O has different flavors!

[jaybee]

Kool-Aid has distinguishable flavors? Life is full of surprises, you'll be telling us next that Jell-O has different flavors!

That's like my reaction when I learned that wine came in colors.

My favorite KA is the Cabernet Sauvignin flavor, but the Merlot runs a close second. There is too much oak in the Zin Kool Ade for my taste.

[britcook]

My favorite KA is the Cabernet Sauvignin flavor, but the Merlot runs a close second.  There is too much oak in the Zin Kool Ade for my taste.

Thanks for that, funniest post of the day!

[muon]

And how do you like to prepare it?  Any secret recipes?

My favorite is the 'red' flavor. And as far as secret recipes -- learned this one from my mom. Follow the directions on flavor packet (add water) -- but here's the trick -- pour the last little bit of water directly into the flavor packet and then dump into the pitcher, prior to refrigeration. It gives that little extra burst of red flavor.

--m.

[Ann Vine]

I was about to post the different Kool-Aid flavors before I realized how many different ones there are.

Kool-Aid Website

Wow, I didn't know they had Kool-Aid that changes color. I want it!!!

I like to mix it with a whisk to dissolve all those tasty flavor crystals.

Edited February 4, 2003 by Ann Vine (log)

[ngatti]

electric

Nick

[Fat Guy]

How is the sugar free Kool-Aid?

I'm particularly enjoying the fun facts on the site, for example:

"If all the envelopes of KOOL-AID® sold in a year were laid end-to-end, they would stretch 58,524 miles, which would wrap around the Earth's equator twice - or between Los Angeles and New York more than 20 times!"

[Ladybug]

I can't read about Kool-Aid without recording my Kool-Aid Coupon Triumph of the Decade. Woo woo! I personally don't drink Kool-Aid and don't approve of it. I might make it for my kids a couple times a year because THEY like it - but I teach Sunday School and all those sweet little yammers love the vile stuff. Anyway, I found Kool-Aid (only the pink lemonade flavor) for 10 cents a pack, but at the end of the aisle were coupons for $1 off the purchase of 10 packs. My lightning-fast mathematical brain figured out that meant the Kool-Aid was free. I "bought" about 6 boxes of the stuff - I think that's about 450 packs of Kool-Aid. I gave a lot away and I STILL have Kool-Aid, two years later. The kids at Sunday School are sick of pink lemonade flavored Kool-Aid, but I just drop in a bit of food coloring to make it (ACK!) blue and they swear it tastes better.

[SobaAddict70]

When I lived in the East Village, I had friends who would use Kool Aid to dye their hair. (Take a packet of your favorite color/flavor KA, and sprinkle all over your hair once you've rubbed mousse and gel into it.)

This was during the early 90s EV punk scene. I've outgrown that phase now.

SA

[stellabella]

grape

when we were kids we had kool-aid stands. back in the 70s koolaid had a competitor--wyler's--and we thought drinking wyler's was cooler than drinking koolaid. i think leif garrett used to drink wyler's.

[Pitter]

Y'all actually drink it? I thought it was used mostly for dyeing wool, and I use it for that.

Edited February 5, 2003 by Pitter (log)

[chantrelle]

Ya, i haven't been able to drink the stuff since i dyed my hair with it.

Rockadile red was the best dye...Cherry wasn't vibrant enough, my hair was too dark to begin with.

[Cheffie3]

I like the Cherry and Grape flavors, I prepare as directed except I add an extra half cup of sugar and squeeze in a little fresh lemon juice, I'm 32 and never stopped drinking it.

Edit: Added the word "in"

Edited February 16, 2003 by Cheffie3 (log)

[NeroW]

Berry Blue. Or Red. My last roommate ALWAYS had a pitcher of Kool Aid in our refrigerator. He was partial to the lemonade flavor, but would usually bow to me and mix the Red. I have a large plastic pitcher that is stained a lovely shade of Berry Blue-Red.

In school some of the girls used to mix multliple packets of the Kool Aid powder with sugar, carry it around in a plastic baggie, and lick it off their fingers. The girls who were stained with Kool Aid powder were the "in" crowd. Or they'd cut a little hole in the corner of the baggie and dribble it directly into their mouths.

You wouldn't have caught me dead doing that.

[pariah_kerry]

I like their "Meat Lover's" collection of flavors:

Au jus

Bacon Fat

Pan Drippins' (the Kool Aid that drinks like a meal.)

Dirty Hot Dog Water

Veal Deglaze

[tommy]

i lived on this stuff through college, although it was a generic referred to as "bug juice." that and piels/budwieser.

i gotta go with red as a favorite. although orange could be a close second.

[Jason Perlow]

I like Peoples Temple Guyana Brown Cooler.

EDIT: Sorry folks, stupid topic deserves a stupid answer.

[KateW]

I'm surprised nobody said "Isn't that kind of like asking what our favorite kind of poison is?"