How many here still like/drink Kool-Aid?

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I did up until a few years ago...

...I ended up with diabetes after major surgery, and the sugar free versions just don't cut it for me.

My personal favorites were Tropical Punch, Lemon Lime, and Orange.
 
How did I miss this thread for so long?

We had Kool-Aid and Fizzies all the time growing up. Tang not so much. My OL was a fan of Mott's A.M., which was kind of an orange/nectarine/apricot blend in a can. There was also Mott's P.M. which had a purple grape base, we didn't have that too often.
I have Kool-Aid all the time in the fridge in reused Snapple bottles. 1 package=4 bottles. I get up every night at 4 ayem (you guys over 50 will know why). Because I snore so bad, I always have cottonmouth. Nothing beats a blast of ice cold Kool-Aid at that hour of the night!

For some reason my ShopRite only carries grape, lemonade, cherry and tropical. I've never seen any other flavor.

In the 50's our Food Fair in the 'hood had a cheaper equivalent called "Cheeri-Aid" that was like three cents a package while K-A was five cents. My OL had plastic molds in the shape of popsicles with plastic sticks that she used to freeze Kool-Aid in the 1948 Westinghouse "Two-Temp". Hard as rocks but a treat nevertheless.

I found a recipe for the frozen Kool-Aid dessert but lost it. I made it a couple of times but I recall it used whole milk, not evaporated.

I always liked "Hawiian Punch" in the big can. I bought some recently and it didn't taste the same. Not even a shot of rum could improve it. Ick.
 
Didn't have it much as a kid, and not now either.
We were more the powdered iced-tea type. Until I got kidney stones and the doc said "NO!"

I think "Hi-C" in a can was around for us more than Kool-Aid!

Then again, as a kid in NYC the water was WONDERFUL to drink!
 
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I completely forgot about Hi-C. My brother was an addict with that and also Gatorade in the can as well. On the occasions when I drank Hi-C, it had to be cherry.
 
My Mom made homemade popsicles also using molds from Tupperware.  We had a 1972 Amana fridge with a fast freeze shelf.
 
We had the Tupperware make-your-own popsicle molds. As we had a dozen orange trees in the backyard, most of the popsicle experiments involved freezing homemade orange juice. Mmmm.

(Mom had a Sunbeam Mixmaster with the juicer attachment)
 
Hey DADoes I have one of those pitchers too! It came from my great grandmother so chances are the one I have is probably from the 60's or whenever they first came out.

I still love and drink Kool-Aid. Perfect drink on a hot summer day!
 
what ever happened to hi-c?

as a kid this is what we drank. those large cans i remember lined up in the juice aisle. we always picked out the flavors we wanted to buy... large, large cans- what ever happened to that company.. this thread is bringing back memories...
 
I like to mix one packet of the cherry flavor with one packet of lemon aid flavor, with 1 3/4 cups of sugar, I always use less sugar than the directions say, I like it a little tart.
 
Double or Nothing

Growing up poor, mom made a gallon of Kool-Aid using one packet and 3/4 cup of sugar.  It was much worse at Gramma's who made her own grape juice and bottled it.  It was diluted and looked like wash water in a wringer machine at the end of the day.  When I was on my own it was always two packs one hrape and one lemon just like Yogi-tunes, 1 cup sugar and 1/2 gallon of water.  By the time my kids were old enough to choose we had a carbonated soda machine that you added syrup to water and then pumped in the Co2.  After the syrups ran out they carbonated every liquid known to man.  I bought jug wine and carbonated it pretending it was champagne.  Red Foxx was famous for Ripple wine with 7-UP which he called Champipple.  I quit drinking in 2003 and now drink carbonated sugar and sodium free drinks of any flavor and any brand.
 
My favorite Kool-Aid is Black Cherry, and I just made a pitcher. I'll sometimes make Orange or Grape instead.

When I was a kid, my neighbor Joanne would make Kool-Aid and Kool-Aid ice cubes for the kids playing at their house. I remember the Root Beer flavor that was available at the time; it's long been discontinued.

Kool-Aid (usually Cherry or Grape) and cookies were always served at snack time at the Vacation Bible School our church had every summer. I remember the ladies making it up in stainless steel pitchers and pouring it into small Dixie cups, which were placed on a large tray for each child to pick up.
 
Kool-Aid?

Oh my goodness, that is going back a bit!

Mama wasn't big on sugar and or carbonated drinks for her children, so we rarely had soda pop except at BBQ's or some other family event.

Kool-Aid or Hi-C (still remember those cans lining our kitchen pantry) was allowed but only glass at dinner and or luch, and one had to finish the required glass of milk first. Nine times out of ten if one asked for something to drink you got water!

Still loved Hi-C orange, grape and a blend of citrus fruits that was green and tasted out of this world.

For Kool-Aid my brothers and I favoured grape or cherry. Lemonade was made fresh so there wasn't a need for that. Also since both one's parents came from the South, iced tea was more often than not the sweetened drink in our fridge during the warmer months of the year.

Remember when Kool-Aid came out in those large pre-sweetened packages. Classmates and friends of mine started to "eat" the stuff as a sugary snack. Mother Dear shot that idea down from the start! How would she ever find out? Well whatever dye was in those Kool-Aid packs stained fingers and hands quite well. If one came in like that any good eagle eye mother (and trust me, mine had eyes like a hawk), would spot the stain, and it was only a matter of time before the truth came out (with or without the aid of the wooden spoon *LOL*)
 
You'll think I was deprived in my childhood

Mom treated sugar as a "controlled substance" in our household.   She kept the cookie jar well-stocked and there was always dessert at the end of supper each night but things like pie always veered towards tart over sweet.   She occasionally made Kool Aid but always made it with half the amount of sugar and added a healthy shot of lemon juice.   A very rare, special summertime treat would be a bottle of orange Nesbitt from the cooler at the gas station up north when we visited grandma, or a mug of root beer when we went to the A&W drive-in.  To this day drinking pop, sweetened iced tea etc is like trying to down a bottle of Karo syrup for me.
 
Kool-Aid, not really.......

I had it as a small child at friends of my parents, and it was the grape flavour...... and the next day, I was covered in hives! This happened twice more during my childhood, and after the third time, we didn't have any. I didn't feel too deprived. I am not allergic to it now, but don't have any interest in it.

We did have other drink mixes--- one was really wonderful, a Salada(?) fruit punch, in a large pouch, and Hawaiian Punch (still like it, but now drink the no added sugar), but we also had water, milk, and pure fruit juices, as well. We also had Fizzies once in a while. I liked the Rootbeer flavor. The new Fizzies don't appear to be available here.

Currently, I do drink Crystal Light. I really like the White Grape (no allergies,) and the Orange Sunrise.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Dag.....I do remember Hi-C in the can.......

I loved the Ecto-Cooler flavor....have no idea what flavor it really was, but it was GREEN, and tasted great, could drink gallons of it....

I think we had the best childhoods compared to kids today.....

how many of you guys had the roller-skates that went over you shoes, with the skate key....whole neighborhood softball or kickball games....and Sat night we played hide and seek thru out the whole neighborhood.....or sliding down grassy hills on large pieces of cardboard?.....

you rarely see a kid today flying a kite....

this is a great thread of memories
 
Drank alot of Kool-Aid as a kid because we rarely had pop.My dad loved lime the best ,but we had cherry, orange and grape alot too .I still drink it all the time.
 

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