It's Kool-Aid Time - Life in America
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Imagine a company today _lowering_ prices to keep their customers. Instead, they shrink the contents for the same price or raise the price outright.
The Great Depression was an extraordinary event. In some ways, it was effectively an 'economic reset', and believe it or not, a lot of companies had to lower their prices. The alternative was extinction.
The sad news is we're probably heading for another. The recession of '08, and the pandemic of the last year and a half, are doin' quite a tune on our economy. And before people zoom in here and start blaming the measures put in place to fight COVID.... they're really not to blame. THey accelerated the decline, yes, but even if COVID hadn't hit, we'd likely be in another difficult depression within 20 years. And for the same reasons as the first one - the unrestrained greed of the so-called 1%.
@@xaenon Thank you for your reply. Another aspect of the depression never looked at is what the people that lived through it brought with them as a mindset of "never throw something away, as you never know when you will need it". A "scarcity mindset" of not having anything and that leads to a hoarding type of life later on. Keep it, do not throw it out. Some people have an illness for that and others have it from a lack of not having material goods during the depression.
Yeah I use to get a lot of potato chips in one bag but now there's only half the amount of chips in the bag which is still the same price. Who do these damn companies think they're fooling ? LOL
Yep...what happened to the 5 lb bag of sugar is now a 4 lb bag.?
We always blame politicians when we should be blaming companies....
Kool-Aid's reputation took a hit after the Jonestown Massacre of 1978, which even gave rise to the sardonic expression "drink the Kool-Aid," when in fact that involved an unrelated brand called Flavor Aid.
Really? Jim Jones was that cheap????
@@danacampbell5982 You run a camp in the jungle for 900 people and watch how fast you cut corners on food.
Flavoraide is so nasty lol
@@crimsonchin479 I bet it tasted glorious compared to the poison.
I “know” someone online who lost half his family in Jonestown, including his own mother when he was just a kid. It has to be a stab to hear how much “drinking the Kool Aid” is part of our language every time he hears it.
Back in the late 50s and early 60s we had Kool Aid stands oh what memories.
Not allowed these days without a lic. or permit.
My friends had them during that time. I used to take bottles back to the store so I could buy from them.
@@miriambucholtz9315 I remember the $0.05 deposit on a little bottles and $0.25 for the Big bottled thank you for bringing up old time
@@miriambucholtz9315 Same here collected bottles around the neighborhood to go to the corner store to by cool aid and maybe some penny candy. Later moved on to newspaper delivery, but that's another story.
@@miriambucholtz9315 i remember when it was 2 cents for the small bottles and 5 cents for the quart size
This brings up so many childhood summer memories. Catching fireflies. Zooming around on my bike. Camping out in the backyard. Even just laying on couch watching cartoons. OOOOH YEAHHHH!!!!
“Old Days” a song by Chicago.
@@glennso47 yes great song, and great memories 🤔
Best times ever.
Saturday morning cartoons were the best back in the day.
@@getoffmydarnlawn YEP! When Tom & Jerry were over, next it was Jonny Quest. Then it was time to go outside and play when Soul Train with Don Cornelius came on LOL. The Soouuullll Traiinnn.
Recollection Road needs to be on The History Channel or PBS. Love this narrator 👍
PB S for sure Yeah nah for the History Channel Ironically they're not about history anymore
These videos are gems for sure! I enjoy them because sometimes they remind me of stuff I forgot about
@@billmadison2032 Yeah there’s no UFOs or buried treasure in this video.
Early to mid 60’s, hot summer days in Walton Oregon at Grandma’s house; cold Kool Aid in colored aluminum tumblers. Great memories!
Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me of those aluminum tumblers in all different colors, always seemed much colder to hold than glass. Something about them,may be because they were just so different compared to glass, i would choose those tumblers over the glass ones every time.
@@robertjaent6087 I agree! Great times!!
Loved the colorful tumblers!!! and remember the beads of water droplets from it sweating .
@@steelwheels327 Absolutely, the tumblers we (Grandma) had were made out of aluminum, and on a hot Oregon summer day the Kool-aid was sure fine!!
Growing up in the late 80s and early 90s, I remember saving the points on the packages to mail off for tshirts and other things.
Wish I had One or Two brand new Original Shirts they made, & the Pitchers were a marvel of creativity 😊👌
I ordered a T-Shirt back in the 80's. Wore that thing slap out.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s.
I forgot about doing this!
We used to freeze it to make pop cycles
popsicle
Yes Kool-aid pops in those metal ice cube trays! Ahhh sweet memories
Yep, my mom bought one of those Tupperware popsicle maker thingy's that we'd add Kool Aid to. And oh how I remember those early 70's commercials with "OH YEAH, Kool Aid here, bringing ya fun....!"
I remember going to the grocery store with my mom when I was a boy and I always wanted to go where the Kool-Aid packets were and seeing if they had any new flavors to try. Great video!
I did the identical thing, friend!
I did the exact same thing.
Hot summertime fun, Kool-aid in a colorfull aluminum pitcher, big square ice cubes from the metal levered ice cube trays you had to run under the water to melt em enough to pull the lever and crack the cubes, colorful aluminum glasses. Yes, wonderful memories from the 50s.
I do so miss America the way she was.
SIMPLE!
Yep. People were mostly honst and true to their values. Today all are corrupt. All are distrusted.
God help us to get through this crisis of humanity. Eh?
I just miss America the way it was even a year and a half ago.
@@glennso47 Yes same here, God bless our great republic for future generations 🙏🇺🇸
@@frankrizzo4460 Aged like 🥛
I still love Kool-Aid today. And I am a grandma. It was very popular when I was a child. I still buy it and give it to my grandchildren
Great childhood drink and still is!
Kool Aid was also used as a good Easter egg coloring dye.
Tip to add some Zing to your Kool Aid. After pooring a glass add about 1/6 of seltzer water to it for a Soda type of zing.
When I was young I had friends of a very poor family. When we'd visit the mom would tell one of the kids to go mix up a treat for everyone. We had a lot of tasty treats made at very little cost for the ingredients and one of the best things was popcorn balls flavored with Kool-Aid. In my younger adulthood, during the eighties and into the nineties, I was still buying packs of Kool-Aid for ten cents each. We had to use less water to get the same flavor they had when I was a kid but it was still a cheap drink and the kids loved it. My favorite flavor was Black Cherry.
That must've been a black family?
@@dwightpowell6673 Why would you even ask that? Does skin color make a difference in poor people?
Remember that house in every neighborhood that use to sell frozen koolade cups for a quarter 😂🤣…. and you could have easily made it yourself.
@@commonsense3921 Thankfully we didn't live in a neighborhood, otherwise we would have been those kids making the Kool-aid cups for a quarter each. (I say thankfully because our mom was always trying to get us kids up to some scheme and we hated it.)
I love this channel; it’s the closest thing there is to a time machine.
Yep... everyone of us kids had different colored mustaches 😂 and drinking it out of those colored aluminum tall drinkers, it stayed cold
Yes. I remember the aluminum "glasses", or whatever you called them.
@@cogitoergosumsc5717 We called them aluminum tumblers, and the girls in my family used them to take water upstairs to their bedrooms to set their hair in rollers before going to bed. Our old farm house was sometimes so cold in the winter that the water would freeze overnight but the aluminum could handle it when glass would have shattered. One night my oldest sister forgot to take her comb out of the tumbler and she had to put it on the stove in the morning to melt the ice so she would have the comb to take to school with her!
@@douglas_drew I also remember snow laying on the inside of the Windows sill cold memorys but good ones
Haha haven’t pictured those tall aluminum tumblers for years. Any place that made shakes had them. The colors faded from the constant dishwashing.
A catalog called Betty's Attic still sells those, along with an aluminum pitcher. Look like the ones my grandparents had.
Guys and gals, thanks for your comments on this. Your combined experiences reverberate in all our hearts and remind us that a few things from childhood remain untainted.
My parents bought a variety of flavors, grape was my favorite though. My sister loved to make the Kool-Aid so she was given that job. ( 60s 70s )
Use to throw a pitcher right under the kitchen faucet put a TON of sugar in there (No measurement Cup) put in two Koolade packages and turn on the faucet and fill to the top and stir…….Now I buy bottled water and couldn’t believe we drank straight out the faucet.
Such wonderful memories, thank you.
I remember the Kool Aid pitcher around 1967. I had to have one. It was 50 cents and two or three empty Kool Aid packages. I mowed lawns in the neighborhood for 10 cents per lawn. And I made the needed money. The sixty's were Great!
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We had the plastic mugs
Awesome!!! We always had Kool Aid in our house back in the day.😊
Your right it was forgotten until tonight.
I just added it to my shopping list.
A cool frosty glass of Cherry Kool-Aid on a hot summer day..😋brings back good memories..😁
Still buy the little packs to this day always have on hand my favorites.
I know that's right I love me some Kool-Aid it takes me back I love it it's delicious especially nowadays with all the tropical flavors and fruit flavors is delicious 🤤🌟✨⚡💜💣🔥✌️
When I was a child in the 1960's, the Pillsbury company invented and marketed competition for Kool-Aid. The product was called Funny Face.
Thanks for another great video 👍. Like so many others I have happy memories of Kool-Aid. Back in the 50’s & 60’s pop was a little bit of an extravagance and Kool-Aid was cheap and convenient. Everyone had a different favorite flavor. It was fun to have a Kool-Aid mustache and colored tongue 👅. I use Mio and Crystal Lite, but I think tomorrow I will buy some Kool-Aid packets (and sugar substitute). Summer, riding bikes, playing catch, running through the sprinklers, cap guns, hide and seek, playing outside until you were hot and sweaty 🥵. Going to any home in the neighborhood and someone’s mom would make Kool-Aid. If only kids now could experience the same things.
I remember the early 70s, as kids we would play all day in the summer and have kool aid. Do you remember Wylers?
i remember wylers, and probably hadn't thought of it in over 40 years.
do you remember food stix?
I do. It was quite delicious until the quality of the product declined.
@@luisreyes1963 nice. i don't recall the quality declining, though.
do you rememberwhen grocery stores used to sell those frozen burritos that had hot dogs inside of them?
What about Funny Face?
I had both Kool-Aid and Wylers when I was a child in the 60"s.
I remember having Kool Aid when I was a little kid.
We used to get the big fat Kool-Aid packets that already had sugar in them. When they came out with the smaller packets that required you to add your own sugar we thought we'd try to be more healthy and made it without sugar and it was disgusting. We had a Tupperware pitcher that was exactly the right size for making Kool-Aid that was permanently stained.
Presweetned!
The unsweetened came out first!
Same here, but I made the sugar free but half the sugar, my kids didn’t know better
Loved the cherry Kool-Aid in glass pitcher with lots of ice. 5 cents a pack and need to use 2 cups of sugar. Lots of sugar!
Then after 2 or 3 glasses you were wired for 220 & told you better get you a seat! Quit running through the house. 😂😂👍 Sugar Fix 😊
Mom wouldn't allow us to use more than a cup of sugar, and it was plenty sweet at that. I ordered the Kool Aid cups one summer and they didn't arrive until October or November. We used them for years.
We also froze it in Dixie cups or in ice trays and made icees. My favorite was cherry or grape. In high school we used to use it to dye a variety of things including hair!
Yes! I remember dying hair with Pool aide.
Still drink it til this day and I was born in 88. My favorite drink of all time!! Thank you Mr. Perkins.
Good Heavens - what memories! Thanks for posting this gem - fabulous as always!
My family had Kool-Aid in the summers until I left for college. The world was so much simpler and sweeter!
Amen to that sir.
Simpler and sweeter for white folks.
@@dwightpowell6673 go somewhere else troll.
My comment was about my own personal memory. It was not an advocation that our society move backwards on matters like social justice. Dwight, you know nothing of me or, in this instance, my lifelong fight for racial equity. Rudely “calling out” in this instance only highlights your own narrowness, and mis-directed anger.
@@dwightpowell6673 Buzz off buddy..
I dont know why, but your videos are so cool. I enjoy to learn about som unusal parts from American culture and history.. Greetings from Germany!
Kool Aid was very popular in the 50s and 60s for kids. I drank it even though it was not my favorite drink. I preferred soda or Ice tea. Having said that KA still brings back great memories of mixing a jar of KA on a hot summer day.😁
Great video's.I remember drinking alot of Wyler's too.
When I was stationed in Japan in the early 90's, one of our neighbors was a food vendor for the commissaries and represented KA. She hired me to wear the KA costume on the weekends. It had a frame I wore on my back containing a battery and blower and the full blown outfit. When I got hot, I'd back up to the coffin freezers and the blower would suck in the cold air. I had my "Oh Yeah!" down! It was fun for the 2 years I did it.
My Mom's family was from Nelson, NE. It was a treat for us to go from Nelson to Hastings. Many years ago, my parents took my grandfather shopping from Nelson to Hastings. I think it was about a 45 minute drive. In that time, they saw 4 other cars on the road. My grandfather said "Where is eveyone going." You have to love the Midwest.
“Oh yeeeeeah!”🥤
Wylers had some good flavors. Summer camps used to buy some bargin basement brand that never tasted right.
Oh my goodness, l can’t believe the timing of this video, yesterday I made a Kool-Aid Pitcher! Earlier in the week I was looking at photo album with my grandchildren and they saw our Kool-Aid pitcher! Of course they wanted one! I looked all over the internet for a reasonable priced one. Then it hit me. I found the exact shape glass pitcher on Amazon... l also had to purchase a Glass Etching Kit! It took me over an hour to tape everything off just the way I needed it but, it came out beautiful!
When I was a kid Dad would bring along a thermos filled with grape Kool-Aid to the ballpark. It was also the standard drink for the drive-in. I don't think I had a soda pop at either venue until I was old enough to go on my own. I did discover one inconvenient truth later in life though. Kool-Aid and vodka is a real bad idea. 🤢
Wah! Spiking Kool-Aid with vodka crossed my mind as well. Thanks for the heads up.
Rum and black cherry Kool-Aid is good though.
@@DBAllen When I was younger, I was fond of rum and coke, so I can see why rum & black cherry Kool-Aid could be enjoyable. Sugar content?
@@DBAllen LOL...first drinking experience was with Rum and Tang (remember Tang?). We all thought that we were so sophisticated...we all got sick. 😂😂😂
I tried orange Crush pop with Vodka.....did not end well....hahaha!
You never out grow Kool-Aid, me and my dad still buy the powder versions.
I miss the discontinued flavors like Sunshine Punch and Apple. Too bad it's been hard for me to find other flavors but the basic ones in stores.
Speaking of punch, my parents would get Hawaiian Punch as often as Kool Aid. Both made excellent iced drinks and cubes
We progressed pretty quickly beyond Kool Aid to Wyler's and Country Tyme.
Wow. I haven't even HEARD of Wyler's in decades. Are they still around?
We also had canisters of Tang.
I have a whole cannister of kool-aid packs (about 40),in my pantry. And I'm 57 lololol
LOL they were on sale for 10c a packet in Big Lots clearance so I picked up a whole bunch of them too. Lol
@@noble604 thanks for telling me 😁
And sugar is so much cheaper now also. A great Prepper Food as those powder packs I believe will be good for at least 100 years 😂 and yet the companies are sprinkling a few drops of lemon juice, etc in a bottle of C02, & people are buying it up like crazy! Why? A16 Oz bottle being higher than 16 Oz of gasoline! Just crazy!!! Use a very small pinch of Kool Ade & save yourself some money. The cost of plain old bottled water is high enough. We need to get rid of all the Plastic Folks. I’m sure this guy if living nowadays could have figured out a solution. Just as bad are the plastic bags all grocers use. There are a few exceptions and only in a few stores, but you have to ask them as they are under the counters & out of sight, if they have Paper Bags! I know of 2 local smaller markets I frequent and always tell the checker, I would like Paper Bags please, as I can then fold them at home & reuse. That & they are much stronger & so much more friendly for the environment! I fold & reuse all of my paper bags. Most come in med or large. Of course you can buy the small lunch bags off of the shelves in packets of 50. These the lunch sacks we used to put in our lunchboxes long ago. Saran wrapped sandwiches wrapped in then a paper towel & then placed in our lunchboxes. A jelly jar was never ever thrown out as that had a cap & lid & was the perfect size for our koolade 👌 the 60’s
Rochelle... your my kind of girl! 😊👌 😂👍
@@johnnylapsick6826 lol 🙂
I lived it as a child, and still buy it today! Love my kool-aid!
I loved it as a kid and a young adult!
Reminds me I’m out of Kool-Aid. First time in 35 years.
Tropical punch, black cherry, and blue raspberry lemonade are my top three favorite flavors. I still enjoy it occasionally. Thanks for the video!
It was the only treat we could afford hen I was a kid. Welfare mom with 4 kids. Drank it by the gallon. As an adult used cherry to make improvised margaritas.
I'm using the lemonade flavor right now for some John Daly's! Yum. Basicallyba screwdriver with lemonade instead of OJ.
Growing up we only had HI-C in the house, it came in the big tin cans.
Ooh and Welch's in the big cans!! 😀
Big tins of Hi-C served up by room mothers at school parties. Orange for the Halloween party and red for Christmas and Valentine’s Day❤️
I grew up on those big tin Hi-C cans. Loved them.
Hey, how about a nice Hawaiian Punch?
Also Hawaiian Punch
Hot muggy summers and kool aid made with hose water. Ah, the 70’s……
... and just think, you lived to tell about it! ... the hose water didn't kill us!!!
Having a glass with Jim jones 😮
Having a glass with Jim jones 😮
Drinking the kool aid 😮
"And all the granulated sugar your Mom had in the house" 🤣🤣🤣
The narrator of this channel is usually so straightforward and pretty serious, so that really startled me and made me laugh out loud.
@@barbarak2836 I agree...he's got a wonderfully soothing voice that goes exceptionally well with the recollection videos...I really enjoy his videos.
@@jondickinson1056 Yes, hIs voice is perfect for the subject matter, I think.
Nothing stains a carpet like Kool Aid.
Blood.
Just saying...
Lol people dye their hair with it. That color will last a month lol
@@duchovny2 You’re right. But as a kid, not so much. Red and grape would due a number, including on your teeth. And I think it took like 2 cups of sugar. But it made great ice cube popsicles. Anybody still living remember Fizzies or Flavor Straws?
@@rascal0175 My grandmother bought us Fizzies! Oh, the joy!
LMAO! Yep!
As always Great video. Growing up in So. Cal. Mrs Penner refreshed us kids with Kool aide and huge Pieces of watermelon great memories thanks again
As a mid-70's kid we'd get a scoop of Strawberry flavor powder in a baggie and dip rhubarb in.
On a side note, 2:22 6:02 absolutely gorgeous advertisement Artwork !!
Also, myself, or one of my friends ..somebody in the group would always have a Kool-Aid Moustache ! Oh Yeah !
I also love their artwork. Gorgeous ads.
I just had some grape kool aid right before this came on
🤤🤤👍💯
I was always a cherry guy. I loved the red tongue.
@@terrykrall grape for me don't forget Tang that was great tasting and made great mini popsicles 🤤
@aDg 2k18 I guess I’ll have to try them again. A quarter at Kroger.
Kool Aid was a big part of my house growing up. Part of their success was that they offered so many different flavors, and were always coming out with new ones. I remember me and my sister being excited to try a new flavor whenever one came out
Good thing I got some Kool-Aid packets in my pantry, I'ma go make some. It's hot this year!
I got a leather jacket in the 90s from doing that with Pepsi points. It was a serious heavy black leather jacket and it didn’t have any Pepsi advertising on it. Those were the days when they gave you back things for buying their products.
Who knew that one day, “drinking the Kool-Aid” would become synonymous with buying into bullsh*t.
Right? But the fact is, JJ didn't use Kool Aid! He used "Flavor Aid".
Basically an office term now.
@James Doolittle ….that is what the meme means and came from…blindly taking in what someone tells you to do, even though it will harm you.
They stopped telling jokes about JJ because the punch lines got too long.
Oh how I remember the kool-aid commercial that big glass pitcher of kool -aid great memories we still drink our kool-aid !! Lol thanks for this upload.😊
Thank you so much Recollection Road for uploading this great video, I appreciate it!
This is a great channel.
oh yes 😄 that was the drink in our house 👍 then eventually Mom added tang 💪 and Hi C.
I just cleaned my dishwasher interior on normal cycle with a pkg of unsweetened lemonade flavor. Always comes out looking brand new. As a kid in the 60s orange flavor was my favorite. :)
Did you think of that yourself?
@@danacampbell5982 It's been on the internet for years. I tried it and it works. It is the citric acid in the unsweetened Kool Aid lemonade flavor that scrubs the inside of a stainless steel interior of a dishwasher. I honestly can't tell if you are being sarcastic. It wasn't MY idea.
I've heard of that, but I've never tried it before. I always wondered if it really worked. Thanks 🙂
@@jenniferhansen3622 Hi Jennifer, it does for me. 11 year old GE Profile with SS interior here. I use the Kool Aid unsweetened lemonade every few months. Interior comes out super shiny again. No heat setting for drying. Open door and let air dry. Take care
The drink of my youth!!!
In 69 we lived in a New Jersey suburb. My girlfriend and I were 5 and we ran a Cool-Aid stand. Fun times.
That's adorable 😊
Do you mean your friend that was a girl??
@@valentinaminauro352 She and I were known as the 17 year olds trapped in 5 year old bodies by all the people in the town. Yes she was a "girlfriend".
As a kid, I always drank the Kool-Aid.
My mom always would say "kool aid is too expensive " and we'd always get flavor aid
As a kid of the 60's, all our trips started with a thermos filled with coffee and one with grape or cherry Kool-Aid, I loved the cherry moustache. Kool-Aid was our daily drink because sodas were purchased only occasionally as a special treat. It was great to be a kid then.👍
I’m going to try to go to the festival someday. Thanks for another great video.
Truly an American innovator icon!! The rest is in the history books 💯❣️
I remember drinking Kool-aid as a kid. It always hit the spot on those hot summer days!
We seemed to get "Funny face" more often, probably because it had the sugar already with the powder mix and made a gallon. I's been many many years since I've had anything like that.
I forgot all about FunnyFace drinks! 👍🏻
Or how about Hawaiian punch
@@PurpleObscuration The original stuff was a syrup, and my mom never got it for us! But I had friends who's moms cared and made it for us, I remember it being really good!
The old 1970's theme song, with the Kool-Aid man busting through the wall, is rolling around in my head.
I am a big fat 53 year old guy and have a bright red tee shirt. We just adopted some kids from foster. They have no idea why the wife and I laugh every time I put on that shirt and say "Oh Yeah!" as I jump through the doorway. They just shake their heads. lol
We had a special pitcher just for Kool-Aid. My brother and I grew up on it, and still drink it. He liked grape, I loved lemon-lime.
Yup, *Kool Aid* was definitely a memorable part of my childhood summers, what fun times!!!! (Circa ~ 1960's & 70's!)
So enjoy this channel. Just enough info to be pleasantly nostalgic and to learn something new, too. Thanks.
Suggestion for future episode: Hallmark - greeting cards division and maybe stand-alone stores, NOT the “entertainment” stuff. (Today, after not thinking about it for years, I suddenly wished I had a purse-size annual calendar booklet.)
Kool Aid back in the day. One packet of Kool Aid to like six or more cups of sugar! All sugared up! 😁
Perkins was my daughter’s great Uncle. She has posters of the very early Kool-aid product. Super cool to see this.
I must have made a 1,000 pitchers of kool-aid as a kid/teen. Favorite flavor-tropical punch. 😋
I remember having Kool-aid back in the 1960's. I also remember the kids selling Kool-aid Stands in the neighborhood. The neighborhood kids would sell Kool-aid for 5 cents a glass.
I grew up on Kool Aid. I even got one of the Kool Aid cardboard KoolAid stands and sold KoolAid in front of the house. The Kool Aid stand was yellow with red and black details and had poles on each side with cardboard banner on top over the countertop. It was sharp. We got some of the Kool Aid pitchers too.
Saturday morning cartoons. I remember these commercials like it was yesterday. Also we used to drink Zarex flavored syrups mixed with water too.
We lived in Hastings for a few months. We were crushed to be out of town the weekend of Kool-Aid Days but caught the tail end of the last day, just enough time to buy a commemorative mug and sample several flavors.
In the late 40's, my parents sent my sister and I to summer camps New York State for two weeks. I remember the counselors mixing up what seemed to be a cauldron-sized pot of what they called "Belly Wash". They always added a bit too much sugar for my taste but I still drank gallons during those two weeks. My mother guessed this was nothing more than Kool-Aid and she always had packets of K-A on hand but without the massive amounts of sugar. Loved that stuff. Nothing Like cold K-A on a hot summer day. Thanks for the memory rewind.
Orange is my favorite. There was a flavor Kool-Aid made in the 70's called candy apple and it was so good.😋 We used to mix them too. Cherry-lemonade, orange-fruit punch, orange-lemonade, and my least favorite(my other family members liked it), grape-black cherry.😠😝 We didnt buy the pre-sweetened, to me it tasted better when you put in your own level of sugar. My oldest brother used to only drink kool-aid(all flavors)with lemons. Great memories.
All that sugar & there were 8 of us children. We were wired for 220 all day 😂
I don't believe I've ever heard that expression, 'Wired for 220'. I like it.
@@xaenon very common along with 100’s of others when you grow up in the Appalachia Mts in the US. Myself in eastern Ky!
(((((OH 😎 YEAH!)))))
(Smashes through wall)😎
We ALL drank the Kool Aid! 😂
1 packet 2 cups of sugar mixed in a pitcher of water stir and enjoy
My 2 favorites were tropical punch and grape
As a kid in the 60s, I was lovin the cherry and the grape. Don't think I could handle the sweetness nowadays... Great memories!
I think I'll buy some KA tomorrow just for nostalgia reasons.
It was a “ hit “ at Jonestown .
Well, except it was some other brand of powdered drink, not actual Kool-Aid.
Thank you !
I remember when the green apple kool‐aid was released. I rode my 10 speed bike across a football field sized grass church field in Sedro Wooley WA. to first get it. I'm pretty sure I had permission to ride across that field. My sister and me loved the apple kool‐aid while eating regular pretzels and listening to the Beach Boys on a Hi-Fi turntable in the 80's..
That was when presweetened kool aid came out late 60s/early 70s. They also had a root beer flavor which was a favorite of mine.
@@markhoffman5719 I don't remember the Root Beer flavor.
It was back when the sugar free kool aid first came out. Apple and root beer were favorites of my brother and I. They did not sell well and were discontinued
Ever have Kool-Aid pie? Add a packet of unflavored Kool-Aid to a can of condensed milk, fold in a tub of Cool Whip, then pour it into a graham cracker crust. Refrigerate for a few hours, then slice and enjoy!