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Kool-Aid


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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.

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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.

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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!"

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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.

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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.

:blink:

SA

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  • 2 weeks later...

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.

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I like Peoples Temple Guyana Brown Cooler.

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

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