Kool-Aid

Kool-Aid is an artificially flavored soft drink which has become a common household name. It is a powder that is reconstituted with water and mixed with sugar to create a brightly colored drink. It is used as an ingredient in desserts, beverages, and craft projects.

1. Mascot: Kool-Aid Man
2. 8' tall and 5' wide
3. He has three ice cubes in his head
4. Catch phrase: "Oh, yeah"
5. Usually red colored
6. Started in 1975
7. From the 1950s to 1975, known as "Pitcher Man"

Kool-Aid is a beverage with many uses, and has been a part of American consciousness for almost 80 years. It has come to take on some unusual associations. The phrase "Drinking the Kool-Aid" means having completely bought into a particular group or philosophy. It derives from the Jonestown Massacre, in which hundreds of people committed suicide by drinking poisoned Flavor Aid, a similar drink to the better-known Kool-Aid. In the 1960s, putting LSD in Kool-Aid was a method of consumption and led to the name of Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

• YouTube:
  • Kool-Aid commercial (Time 0:27)
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  • 1980's Kool-Aid Surfin' Berry Punch Commercial (Time 0:30)
  • '50s Kool-Aid Commercial (Time 0:59)

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  • Dane Cook - Not so Kool-Aid (Time 1:44)
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