What's Wrong With KoolAid?

[Devils_Advocate]

I'm mostly asking this question to OhPleaseJustQuit, but to anybody who knows as I see it being bashed quite a bit on here. Or is drinking KoolAid just a reference to the fact that kids mostly drink it?

Jim Jones…

Jim Jones - Wikipedia

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[Devils_Advocate]

Jim Jones had used a poisoned orange drink in Guyana when 800+ died.
The beginning of the Kool Aid reference.

I should have read your comment…

 

[hjmick]

Kool-Aid gets falsely maligned by those who don't know the facts...

Jones used Flavor Aid, a Kool-Aid knock off...

The cult that inspired "drink the Kool-Aid" didn’t actually drink Kool-Aid

The famous phrase isn't just insensitive — it's inaccurate.

www.vox.com

...The mass death relied heavily on cyanide-laced Flavor Aid, with followers lining up to drink the lethal poison.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Crystal Light is better (and not loaded to the gills with sugar)

Kool Aid only has as much sugar as you put in it.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

And then there's the whole blacks drink kool aid.
Which I didnt know about until I was educated here on USMB.
Apparently it's racist to talk about blacks drinking kool aid...who knew?

 

[DrLove]

Kool Aid only has as much sugar as you put in it.

U sure?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Crystal Light is better (and not loaded to the gills with sugar)

Keep drinking aspartame. It's good for you.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

U sure?

I know those little packets have no sugar.
When I was a kid my Mom would put in just enough to make it drinkable.
Of course she didnt know we had a stash of sugar out in the garage.
You can buy it pre sweetened but it cost more.The unsweetened packets go for 29 cents a each.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Grape KoolAid with ice cubes from those aluminum ice trays that had the handle, in one of these tumblers. Nirvana for me when I was a kid.