alexayla · 5 years ago
As a fellow non-American, I would also like know.
awake_ash · 5 years ago
It was the shit back in the early 2000's here in México. It was so beloved by all the elementary kids
awake_ash · 5 years ago
We never got the new products such as the big cans with different flavours. It was removed from the market like 7 to 10 years, I remember I got super pissed because they removed the best flavoured drink for the kifs
222daisy · 5 years ago
I think it's great! I was curious myself so I looked it up and it was created in 1927. I had it as a child and now my kid drinks it
deleted · 5 years ago
It's honestly just ok. It's not bad but at the same time it's not great. People basically have nostalgia goggles when referring to it so it's just that it was THE drink growing up.
guest_ · 5 years ago
Kool-aid has been around along time in the US. a lot of kids grew up with it. It is some coloring and flavors in a powder, you add sugar and water, it makes an “instant drink” like tang or Yoo-hoo. Instant drinks were very popular and relatively novel in the 50’s and 60’s. Koolaid is very cheap, you can make tons of it for less than the cost of the same amount of bottled water alone. So it became a well known and popular brand of crappy drink that most Americans can relate to. In poorer communities, parents might combine water, sugar, and food coloring to make “coolaid” and that itself became a joke/in joke, especially since Kool-aid is so cheap to begin. But where a lot of the Modern mention of koolaid comes from are two places mainly:
guest_ · 5 years ago
1. There was a religious cult in America that believed a comet signaled the end of the world and the ascension of the “faikthful” to a higher existence. The leader held a mass gathering where they all drank poisoned kool-aid (remember- it’s cheap to make a bunch and the string sugary flavor helps mask other tastes like that of medicine or poison.) hence the sayings: “don’t drink the koolaid” or “I see you drank the koolaid” which “drinking the koolaid” is meaning to follow blindly or join a mass crowd in something.
2. The Koolaid man. Popular mascot featured in commercials, toys, etc. big red pitcher of koolaid with arms and legs. He would break through walls when people “needed” fun or a drink and bring koolaid. His catch phrase was “oh yeeeeah.” Even at the time we knew it was insane, so many jokes and references about such a creature that breaks through walls and tries to get you to basically drink its blood, and the carnage and pathos of such a thing became popular jokes.
guest_ · 5 years ago
Koolaid reinvented itself as pre mixed individual sized drinks for the craze on those of the early 90’s and managed to stay around. Koolaid isn’t super popular and really hasn’t been for a long time, but it’s something that many Americans, especially over the age of 30, grew up with so people can relate to the shared experience. As a kid I thought koolaid was awesome, but I also thought McDonald’s was great food. While it may be good, it’s somewhat simple and depends on an acclimated palate- and neither is really world class, just fast, cheap, and has strong flavors that many are used to so developed a taste for. Koolaid is mostly fruit flavors, it can be used as temporary hair dye and other things. It is just sort of part of American culture, other than that it’s nothing special.
m · 5 years ago
@guest_ has an awesome explanation. I just want to add 1 more thing. Family guy (tv show) repopularised the koolaid man breaking through the wall, especially during inappropriate times where fun shouldn't be had. This was probably a driving force behind the meme but I haven't seen one in so long.
creativedragonbaby · 5 years ago
Yeah I came here to say what @guest_ just said already.
jay2327 · 5 years ago
I think it sucks but have friends who drink it all the time. Depends on the flavour and if you like that flavour. It's just a drink mix.
deleted · 5 years ago
@guest_ Actually, the religious cult drank flavor-aid. A koolaid knock off. Don't drink the kool-aid should be don't drink the flavor-aid, but people don't do research.
infosubstance · 5 years ago
the powder can dye your hair its kool and has lots of sugar so its tastey
celia · 5 years ago
Wow, It has way more history than I tought, i guessed it was a crappy drink and that they jokes came from that
The cult part it's crazy
Thanks a lot :)
(Specially to @guest_)
deleted · 5 years ago
My sister and I would mix a lot of kool-aid mix and sugar up in zip-lock baggies and sell them at school for 2 dollars each. Made a killing.