kool-aid FAQ
Robert Buisson
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History of the alt.drinks.kool-aid FAQ:
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1.0 Feb. 11/95 -The original and VERY short version of the FAQ.
2.0 Feb. 16/95 -Version 2.0 included many changes and additions
including the history of Kool-Aid.
3.0 Feb. 24/95 -This version included the results of the latest
poll as well as the web site where the FAQ is
located. Other changes were made to the format.
3.1 Mar. 30/95 -Includes a new section on Kool-Aid around the
world, and the poem of the month!
3.2 ??? -The subscribers and traders lists were removed and
are now posted as Kool-People and Kool-Traders.
3.3 June 22/95 -Some new Kool-Aid links and more info about
foreign Kool-Aid are a couple of the additions.
3.4 Oct 3/95 -Recipe for Toasted Kool-Aid added. Kool-Traders
list eliminated; Kool-People list back in FAQ.
3.5 Oct 21/95 -Rob Buisson takes over from the esteemed Kevin
Whalen (Kaptain Kool) as keeper of the FAQ. The
Kool-People list eliminated, New poll results are included.
4.0 Jan 29/96 -News of a new flavour (Slammin' Strawberry-Kiwi) and
the demise of Sharkleberry Fin are included, as well
a Wacky Warehouse section is added to the FAQ.
4.1 Feb 6/96 -Section on Jim Jones added. New poll results included.
4.2 Feb 29/96 -Section on Super-fruity kool-aid added.
4.3 Mar 29/96 -First posting to alt.answers and news.answers,
making the kool-aid FAQ an "official" usenet FAQ.
4.4 Jun 14/96 -Section on Sugar added to the FAQ.
4.5 Aug 23/96 -subsection on Cyclamate sweetened kool-aid added
5.0 Oct 4/96 -Kool-Aid in the media section added, prompted by a
sudden kool-aid media blitz.
5.1 Oct 18/96 -Kool-aid video game description added.
A Tribute to alt.drinks.kool-aid:
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"Wow!
"I don't actually drink KA (or I haven't regularly, I think I'm
gonna start) but I was cruising the infohighway and your newsgroup
looked kinda kooky so I decided to check it out...WOW! This is the
nicest, giddiest, neatest newsgroup I've ever read! People on UseNet
are usually so quick to anger...I think they just post when they need
to vent for whatever reason. In any case, UseNet is almost NEVER a
nice, relaxed type atmosphere. This group is a glorious exception.
Is it the KA that does it to y'all?..maybe I oughta try some...
"Kudos!"
-from a net surfer who stumbled across our wonderful group.
Index:
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I. Where does Kool-Aid come from?
II. What about flavours?
III. How do you prepare Kool-Aid?
IV. What is the most popular flavour?
V. What does that code on the package mean?
VI. Can I dye my hair with Kool-Aid?
VII What can you tell me about Sugar and other kool-aid sweeteners?
VIII. What else can I do with Kool-Aid?
IX. What can you tell me about the Kool-Aid Man Atari 2600 video game?
X. What is the Kool-Aid Fan-Fic?
XI. Does anyone else mix Kool-Aid flavours?
XII. Can I "Recapture" lost flavours through kool-aid mixing?
XIII. What are some good Kool-Aid and Alcohol mixes?
XIV. How can I get flavours that aren't sold in my area?
XV. How do I get in touch with the good folks at Kool-Aid?
XVI. Where else do they sell Kool-Aid? (Kool-Aid around the world)
XVII What kind of kool-aid was consumed at Jonestown Guyana?
XVIII. What is "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test?"
XIX. What is the Wacky Warehouse?
XX. Is there a difference between regular and super-fruity kool-aid?
XXI. Has kool-aid been featured in the Media?
XXII. Where else can I find Kool-Aid on the 'net?
I. Where does Kool-Aid come from?
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The following was posted by Ron Gregory, who obtained it from Kraft
General Foods.
"When he was just 11, Edwin Perkins had the idea of becoming a
businessman. He sent for a pamphlet called 'How To Become a
Manufacturer.' It must have inspired him, for some 20 years later he
was running a 125-product line business out of Hendley, Nebraska. The
line ran the gamut from perfumes and toothpaste to flavorings and
household products. But the most popular item was a small bottle of
flavored syrup called Fruit Smack.
"This soft drink syrup was expensive to market because transportation
and glass breakage added heavily to the costs of manufacturing and
advertising. So in 1927 Perkins decided to remove the water and
bottle and offer the concentrated beverage powder in convenient
envelopes. He also changed the name to Kool-Aid. A few years later
the company moved to Chicago and discontinued all other products to
turn its attention entirely to Kool-Aid instant soft drink mix.
By 1939, the Perkins Chicago factory was doubled and additional
employees were hired.
"In 1953 the Perkins Products Company became part of General Foods
Corporation. About that time, print ads for Kool-Aid mixes showed the
soft drink in a large pitcher with a design drawn on the surface
condensation -- a heart, a 5-cent symbol or a smiling face. The
smile became the favorite, and from 1954 it was used on pitchers in
all advertising. When presweetened Kool-Aid came out in 1964,
the package carried an illustration of the now well-known rounded
pitcher with the smiling face. At that time both the shape and the
smile were registered.
"As the demand for Kool-Aid increased, additions have been made to
the original line of six flavors. There are flavored mixes to be
dissolved with sugar in water and ice. There are also sugar-
sweetened mixes, available in packages and canisters. Kool-Aid sugar
free mixes, sweetened with NutraSweet, come in both packages and
canisters. And now we have Kool-Aid Koolers, ready-to-drink juice
drinks, in convenient 8.5 ounce containers."
The six original flavours were Grape, Lemon Lime, Cherry, Orange,
Raspberry, and Strawberry.
Additional conflicting info...
Jane Murray (jmu...@nishna.net) has informed us that the town of Lewis,
IA also lays claim to the title as the place where kool-aid was
invented. Lewis is in the same geographic area as Chicago and Hendley,
Nebraska, so this claim may have some merit to it.
II. What about flavours?
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Not all current flavours are available in all areas. Pina-Pineapple, for
example, seems to have limited availability in the US and is not found in
Canada at all. Flavours marked US are only available in the United States
(as far as I know). There are now two flavours marked CANADA, and one
promotional flavour found only in MEXICO. Purplesaurus Rex and
Rock-a-dile Red are reportedly still marketed in Canada. This news was
obtained from the customer service telephone line.
Special thanks to Ron Gregory, Lynn Wiegard and Dr. Christopher
Hollinshed, for providing the discontinued flavours, as well as Kevin
Whalen, Paul Schmidt and Christine Jean Lee for their invaluable
contributions. Lynn Wiegard is also responsible for the seasonal flavour
list.
Update (Thanks to Lynn, Lwie...@uoguelph.ca): Canada will get some new
flavours in 1997. Also, Kool-Aid will shortly have a trial run in Japan,
featuring packets with some Japanese writing. It is unknown if new
flavours will be introduced in Japan only.
Current Flavours:
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Black Cherry (US)
Cherry
Cola (MEXICO, Promotional trial)
Grape
Incrediberry
Kickin-Kiwi-Lime
Lemonade
Lemon-Lime
Man-o-Mangoberry
Oh-Yeah Orange-Pineapple
Orange
Pina-Pineapple (US)
Pink Lemonade (US)
Pink Swimmingo (CAN) (AKA Watermelon-Cherry in the US)
Purplesaurus Rex (CANADA only)
Raspberry (US)
Rock-a-dile Red (CANADA only)
Slammin' Strawberry-Kiwi
Strawberry
Strawberry-Raspberry (US)
Tropical Punch
Watermelon-Cherry (US) (AKA Pink Swimmingo in Canada)
** The Cola flavour found in Mexico is a bonus pack that comes free when
you buy a five packet box. As far as we know, it is only available in
Mexico, and in limited quantities.
Extinct Flavours:
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The flavours below are, sadly, no longer being produced.
Apple
Berry Blue
Bunch Berry
Cherry Cracker
Golden Nectar
Great Bluedini
Injun Orange (mid-late 1960's)
Jolly Ollie Orange (circa late 1960's)
Mountainberry Punch (Sweetened only packet in Canada, regular in US)
Rainbow Punch
Rootbeer
Sharkleberry Fin
Strawberry Falls Punch
Strawberry Split (sweetened packet only, Canada)
Sunshine Punch
Surfin' Berry Punch
Tangerine (circa 1971)
Seasonal Flavours
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HALLOWEEN FALVOURS: The packets say "Ghoul-Aid", instead of "Kool-Aid".
Eerie Orange (CAN)
Scary Black Cherry (CAN)
Scary Blackberry (US)
Notes on the discontinuation of Berry Blue and Great Bluedini. Several
sources have indicated that Berry Blue was discontinued because of
parental concerns that those flavours looked too much like toxic
substances, and could encourage kids to poison themselves. Berry Blue was
discontinued because it allegedly looked too much like Winshield washer
fluid. Great Bluedini was similarly discontinued because it looked too
much like anti-freeze.
Specialty Package Info
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4 point Nickelodeon Kool-Aid was Manufactured in 1986, featuring
a header that says "Join the Biscuits 'N Gravy Birthday Bunch", and the
cartoon Character "Stick Stickly on the front.
(From: Jane Sitton-Logan ham...@mail.startext.net)
Bugs Bunny was featured on Cyclamate Sweetened Kool-Aid in the early
1970's.
III. How do you prepare Kool-Aid?
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This section is devoted to the technique involved in mixing up our
favourite beverage. Send in your method and I'll stick it in.
A. First, I grab one of those empty two quart ocean spray cranberry
juice bottle (or any other kind with that shape). Then I dump in
the Kool stuff, then the sucre, then put in water (I recommend
Reverse Osmosis water, because it doesn't add any nasty flavour to
the perfection of Kool-aid) almost to the top. Then I do a little
shaky dance until it's bubbly at the top, and pop it in the fridge
Or, if I'm really thirsty, I just chug that warm Kool-Aid out of
the bottle. mmmmmmmmmmmm, good.
-by MUZAK
B. I make Kool-Aid in the sacred traditions of my ancestors. First I
get my one gallon jug (ocean spray), then I add about two cups of
sugar (never measure, always estimate) next I fill the bottle two
thirds of the way full. After replacing the lid I shake the
bottle until all of the sugar is dissolved. Then I remove the
lid and add Kool-Aid, one packet at a time. You may want to
add more sugar at this point. If you are up for a very special
treat, add a teaspoon of salt....yes salt. Salt makes the
flavour more intense. Let it sit for one hour, and
enjoy.....and hey, if you squint it looks purple.
-by Peter White
C. 1. Start with a pitcher that still has the last droplets of your
last batch of Kool-Aid. (If you are not in possesion of said
pitcher then put a tiny bit of water into your dry pitcher
before you continue)
2. Add the Kool-Aid powder
3. Add the sugar
4. Fill the pitcher 1/3 of the way full with *warm* water. (Yes
this means you might wanna stick it into the fridge prior to
drinking, but were talking just tap water warm, not hot)
5. Stir, shake, etc to mix up the sugar, Kool-Aid powder and
water.
6. Then add the rest of the water (preferably as cold and pure
(ie: not from the tap) as possible).
7. [optional:] Place in fridge to cool
8. Chug away...
-by Andy
D --- Here is the way I make Kool-aid,
-One plastic Happy Face Pitcher
-two-thirds cup of sugar
-one packet of the Kool-aid (flavor of choice)
*Add the Kool-aid and the sugar, and shake it like you were sauteeing it.
Mixing the Flavor and the sugar equally.
*Then add a little bit of Hot tap water to make a syrupy mixture.
*Fill with icy cold water and Ice cubes, just to above the eyebrows.
As you pour it to drink the ice gets stuck in the spout and the Kool-aid
trickles out around it making it nice and chilled.
*Enjoy.
-Jennifer, Ruler of Rex
IV. What is the most popular flavour?
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The polls are now closed!
This Kool-Aid poll had a total of 27 participants and followed a somewhat
different format than poll of the past. Each person was allowed to vote
for their three favortie flavors, with first place receiving 3 points,
second place receiving 2 points and third place getting 1 point. Votes
were also taken for favorite color, favorites mixes and the flavor that
people most want back in production. The only category that everyone
voted for was favorite flavor, so some categories may come out with fewer
than 26 votes. Also, everyone didn't vote for a 2nd and 3rd favorite
flavor, so 2nd and 3rd place votes won't come out either.
Favorite Flavor
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There were bursts of support for various flavors, though Tropical Punch
emerged as the final victor. Orange started off strong for the first
few days, but then ended up being in tie with Purplesaurus Rex for
most of the rest of the poll. All this time Tropical Punch was starting
to build votes and zoomed from the very bottom into third place. Then,
things turned ugly, and while Tropical Punch gathered many votes,
Purplesaurus Rex got another vote or two and Orange failed to gain anything
at all.
The votes:
Flavor 1st 2nd 3rd Total points
Tropical Punch 4 2 2 18
Purplesaurus Rex 4 2 0 16
Orange 3 2 0 13
Grape 3 1 1 12
Lemon Lime 3 0 3 12
Black Cherry 2 2 1 11
Great Bluedini 2 0 1 7
Kiwi Lime 1 2 0 7
Strawberry Kiwi 1 1 2 7
Raspberry 0 3 1 7
Sharkleberry Fin 1 1 1 6
MountainBerry Punch 1 0 3 6
Incrediberry 1 1 0 5
Strawberry 0 2 1 5
Berry Blue 1 0 0 3
Cherry 0 1 1 3
Lemonade 0 1 1 3
Pink Lemonade 0 1 1 3
Sunshine Punch 0 1 0 2
Pink Swimmingo 0 0 2 2
Pina Pineapple 0 1 0 2
Orange Pineapple 0 0 1 1
Mango Berry 0 0 1 1
Out of curiousity, I also broke down the votes for favorite flavor into
which colors received the most points. I know that this is completely
unfair to colors such as Orange, which have only one flavor, but feel
free to humor me here. To make things fair I've even provided an
average score, which was calculated by dividing the total number of
points by the number of flavors that are in a given color. As a side
note, Sunshine Punch is not included because I don't know what color it
is, as I have never had any.
Total points Number of Flavors Average Score
Purple 28 2 14
Orange 13 1 13
Green 19 2 9.5
Red 56 8 7
Blue 10 2 5
Pink 18 4 4.5
Yellow 6 2 3
Color
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The color battle underwent major changes as the poll went on, much in the
same way that the flavor battle went. Purple established early dominance
with 3 or 4 votes, while every other flavor had only 1 vote. Then, Purple
lost just about all its support and votes gathered for its opponents.
Purple ended up in a tie with Red, while Green, Orange and Blue had
respectable showings as well. Pink had at least some showing while
Yellow gathered no support at all.
5 Purple
5 Red
3 Green
2 Orange
2 Blue
1 Pink
Most Missed Flavor
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This category had a clear winner all the way through the poll as
MountainBerry Punch earned an easy victory. Purplesaurus Rex, Berry
Blue and, surprisingly, Cherry Cracker also got a lot of support. It
is somewhat interesting to note that of the flavors that have been
discontinued recently, the only flavor that got no support was
Rock-a-dile Red.
7 MountainBerry Punch
4 Purplesaurus Rex
3 Berry Blue
3 Cherry Cracker
2 Sunshine Punch
1 Rainbow Punch
1 Sharkleberry Fin
1 Great Bluedini
Mixes
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No mix got more than one vote, so I have merely listed all of the suggested
ones below. If you are the mixing sort you may enjoy the list below as
some suggestions to try. If you have never mixed Kool-Aid, hey, what are
you waiting for when you have some proven mixes below?
Also listed below are the mixes broken down by their individual flavor
components. Once again, the leader of mixing components was a flavor that
received hardly any support in the normal poll. However, unlike previous
polls, flavors that received a lot of support also showed up high on the
list of flavors to mix with.
Grape / Tropical Punch
Orange / Lemon Lime
Kiwi Lime / Strawberry
Orange / Lemonade
Strawberry Kiwi / Lemonade
Lemonade / anything
Strawberry Kiwi / Grape
Kiwi Lime / Orange
Tropical Punch / Mango Berry
Black Cherry / Lemonade
by flavor:
4 Lemonade
3 Orange
2 Grape
2 Tropical Punch
2 Kiwi Lime
2 Strawberry Kiwi
1 Lemon Lime
1 Strawberry
1 Mango Berry
1 Black Cherry
Thanks to all who participated in this poll. It was a lot of fun to run.
-Paul Schmidt
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In addition to official a.d.k-a polls, there is now a kool-aid voting
booth on the WWW. Matt's "Hey Kool-Aid!" Page has its own kool-aid
voting booth, so if a poll is not being run by a.d.k-a, go to his site
and cast a ballot! (http://www.arc.miami.edu/matt/koolaid.htm)
V. What does that code on the package mean?
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Once again, Ron Gregory is to thank, along with Bernard Marrocco.
The first four NUMBERS in the code indicate the date. The first
indicates the year (ie. 4 for 1994, 0 for 1990 etc). The next three
numbers are the day of the year it was produced (ie. 001 for Jan 1 up to
365 for Dec 31). The letter indicates place of production. In the US,
Chicago is represented by A, EV is for Evanston, Illinois, and M for
Modesto, California. In Canada CO stands for Cobourg Ontario.
VI. Can I dye my hair with Kool-Aid?
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Several methods of using Kool-Aid to dye hair have been proposed.
Method # 1
-In a large bowl (a little bigger than your head) put in hot water
and Kool-Aid. The longer your hair the more packets you need: for
shoulder length try 3.
-Dunk your head in the bowl, and with a cup and a friend work on
pouring the K.A. all through your hair.
-Once it is totally covered and saturated squeeze out the excess
and blow dry.
-Let it sit on your hair for a day. (Beware: it can be VERY
messy, and during the day it is on your hair it might smear on
your clothes....be careful! Bleach seems to take the stain of
off hands and counter tops.)
-by Jodie Zwart
Method # 2
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1. Decide what colour you want your hair to be. Remember that the colour of
your hair will affect the way the colour turns out. If you have
really light blonde hair, it will be about the same colour as the
drink, but the darker your hair is, the duller it will end up being.
And if you're a redhead like me, greens and blues just don't work very
well...they usually turn brown. I've got reddish blond hair, and I
used one package of Rock-O-Dile Red and one of Orange. Now my hair
looks kinda like it's on fire.
2. Get as many packages of unsweetened Kool-Aid as you feel necessary.
My hair is pretty thick, and reaches most of the way to my waist, and
I got pretty good results with only two packages. And don't forget
that you can mix different flavours to get new colours. One package
of Berry Blue and one of Lemon Lime turned my brothers light blond
hair an amazing shade of turquoise.
3. Boil enough water to completely soak the part of your hair that you want
to dye. It has to be really hot, so don't plan on dyeing too close to
your head. This is another reason you might want to pick a colour
that will look OK with your natural colour (or, in my case the colour
your hair happens to be at the moment). Just make sure you're using
less water than you would if you were making Kool-Aid to drink. I
used six cups of water for each package of Kool-Aid, instead of
eight. My brother only used four, but I don't think it made too much
of a difference.
4. Dissolve the Kool-Aid in the water
5. Dunk your hair in the dye (careful...it's hot...don't get your face too
close to the dye...or any part of yourself other than your hair for
that matter). Let your hair soak in the dye for at least five
minutes, then you might want to dry off some of the dye with a towel.
6. Let your hair dry (it will drip dye all over the place...I usually go
outside) but I don't reccommend using a hair dryer...it won't leave
your hair very healthy-looking.
7. As soon as your hair is dry, you can wash it to rinse out some of the
extra dye, so that it doesn't get all over your shirt. But if you
rinse the dye out before it dries, it might all wash off, leaving
your hair the same colour as when you started. Now is also a good
time to use a good conditioner, because the hot dye can dry out your
hair pretty badly.
Unfortunately, so far I don't know how long the dye will last...at least a
week, fading just a little bit each day. The colour runs a little for the
first few days, and after that it's only noticeable when you wash your
hair. Rock-O-Dile Red mixed with Orange on dark reddish blond hair gives a
very bright red, which looks a little like fire if you only dye the ends
and a few streaks of your hair. Berry Blue mixed with Lemon-Lime on light
blond hair gives an intense blue-green. Grape on black hair gives purple
highlights when the light hits it the right way.
- by Kym Britnell (brit...@idirect.com)
Method # 3
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-Take the packet of dry Kool-Aid and pour it into a paper cup.
-Add a squirt of conditioner and about 3 drops of water.
-Mix it so it is kind of thick.
-Wet the part of your hair that you want to dye, put it on (cover
your hands because it stains really badly) and wrap said hair in
Saran Wrap.
-Leave it in for 10 mins, and rinse lightly.
-Blowdry and style as usual :)
-by Mindy Sue
Method 4
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Just a spoonful of vinegar added to the koolaid solution helps the color
stay in longer, and wrapping your head in plastic wrap and then a towel or
something and sleeping overnight with the Koolaid in works well. As a
brunette, I have trouble getting my hair to "take," but my best friend, a
light blonde since birth, used less koolaid than I, and only as "streaks"
which we painted onto her head with a basting brush for turkeys and stuff,
yet pink and blue strands were still found in her hair up to four or five
months later! An asian friend of mine also dyed her hair with absolutely
no success. Know your hair type.
As for the staining effects of the Koolaid, I highly recommend that you
designate a towel as your Kool-aid towel, and keep the
rainbow-colored-thing around through all your trials of hair color, as a
sort of trophey of your accompleshments, and a colorful history of your
explorations. Those blue scouring pads work to get the stains off skin
relatively quickly with only a little removal of skin (hey, it was either
that or a blue forehead!) But I have recently found that baking powder
(good ole Arm and Hammer) provides all the scouring power that you could
want without the pain. In hardship, I used baking soda-toothpaste, which
worked so well and so quickly, that it made my head spin. Vasaline, as
always, is a good idea to rub onto your forehead and ears, to keep those
runs from staining your skin.
WARNING: the strong and pungent flavor of the koolaid you use will remain
as a scent in your hair for several days, and while pleasent, it might earn
you a nickname (i.e. Strawberry-Jill) from your dormmates for the rest of
the year. :)
- Jill Boughey (ath...@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
VII - Sugar and other Kool-Aid Sweeteners.
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How much sugar is in Kool-Aid? (Courtesy of the Street Cents Homepage)
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Pre-sweetened Kool-Aid contains 21 grams of sugar in a 250 millilitre
serving. If it tastes too sweet for you, you can always add more
water, or buy unsweetened Kool-Aid and just add less sugar than they
suggest. Or there's Sugar Free Kool-Aid with Nutrasweet.
You might not realize it but sugar is a major ingredient in lots of
popular drinks:
* Chocolate Milk has 23 grams of sugar.
* Pops like 7-Up, Coke or Pepsi contain about 25 grams per 250
millilitres.
* Orange juice from frozen concentrate has 26 grams of sugar.
* Iced tea mixes have about 26 grams of sugar.
* Cranberry cocktail has 34 grams of sugar.
Milk, on the other hand, has less sugar than Kool-Aid at about 11 or
12 grams.
There are also artificially sweetened diet drinks without sugar.
SUBSTITUTES FOR SUGAR
Vanilla Frosting _tree_ (tre...@usa.pipeline.com)
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I once tried vanilla frosting and cherry koolaid, and that tasted pretty
good...
Brown Sugar, Honey cl...@skypoint.com (Paul Schmidt)
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The only things that I've tried other than white sugar are brown sugar and
honey. The honey didn't work very well because it was hard to dissolve.
I suspect that if I'd heated up some water and then dissolved the honey in
there it would have worked ok, but that seems like too much effort, and
the honey has a really strong flavor anyways. The brown sugar worked
just like regular white sugar and it tasted the same. The only difference
was that the Kool-Aid was a bit browner. It was rather unpleasant looking
for the Pina-Pineapple, but it might look good on some other flavors.
Cyclamates and presweetened Kool-Aid Bruce Lee <bru...@microsoft.com>
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I remember finding an OLD pack of Kool-Aid in my parents cabinet (c.
1984) dating from the early 1970's (c. 1971). It was labeled as
'pre-sweetened' Kool-Aid, was lemon-lime flavor, and had Warner
Brothers' "Bugs Bunny" character holding a pitcher of Kool-Aid on the
front package art. The interesting thing was the size of the packet -
it was the SAME size as a packet of traditional unsweetened Kool-Aid!!
Yes, no triple-thick, double-sized packet... just one small slim
envelope containing lemon-lime elixir, and the sweetener of death. The
Sweetener in Question was Cyclamate.
The contents tasted GREAT!! Sweeter by far than the later pre-sweetened
Kool-Aid, and with no saccarin aftertaste. It made me yearn for the days
of Cyclamates, and their cancer causing side-effects.
It is unknown how long Kool-Aid was sold in the Cyclamate Pre-sweetened
form. My brother thinks it was either a promotional trial (hence the
"Bugs Bunny" caricature on the packet), or was dicontinued once the bad
press on the carcinogenic effects of cyclamates reached a fever pitch
(about the time the Red M&M's were pulled because of fears of the Red Dye).
VIII. What else can I do with Kool-Aid?
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Striped KA Cubes (Kaptain Kool)
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By pouring thin layers of KA into an ice cube tray and freezing after
each layer has been added, you can create striped Kool-Cubes!!
Reports of up to four distinct layers have been heard.
Kool-Aid Cookies (Thersa)
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*1 cup sugar
*1 cup flour
*1 egg
*The other stuff you usually add to cookies like baking powder and salt
and stuff
*19 packs koolaid
*1 box ground up vitamins \
*1 container protein powder/ this way you will not die of malnutrition :)
Mix and bake and stuff. :)
Kool-Aid Sandwiches (Fransciso Toro)
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I told my girlfriend about all ye friendly folks on a.d.ka and she
chuckled and told me that when she was a little kid in Elementary
School (2nd Grade about) she used to come home from school every day
while her mom was still at work and make herself Kool-Aid Sandwiches.
This is not a joke! She used to dump the sweetened powder between
two slices of Wonder Bread and munch away. It was years before her
mom figured out that's where all the Kool Aid she'd buy was going!
In honor of this reminiscence we went and made a Kool Aid Sandwich.
It's, ah, interesting. Makes sort of a novel dessert.
Kool-Whip: (John Nielson)
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I found that it mixes very nicely with Cool Whip. You may have to
add a bit of sugar (sweeten to taste.) Part of the exploratory
process is to discover for yourself the ratio of Cool Whip to sugar
to KA. It should reflect your personal preferences. Colour is not
important, but do not substitute any actual dairy whipped cream,
as this treat must have a certain amount of unnaturalness about it.
It's great for dipping twinkies into.
Kool Klothes Dye: Jill Boughey (ath...@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
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I tye-dyed a large sheet with several flavors of koolaid for a wonderful
pattern of colors which I proudly display on my wall. Two years after
dying, the sheet still faintly smells of that wonderful koolaid-touch.
1) Sheets good for dyeing can be found cheaply at your local thrift stores,
they always have extra bed sheets for only a few bucks, and the lighter the
color the sheet, the more koolaid you will see. I sugest an unpatterned,
white or light pastel sheet.
2) Especially if your sheet is white, it is recomended that you base-dye
the sheet with either yellow (my favorite) or a VERY DILUTED concentration
of another color dye. Let the sheet saturate itself in the color, and then
squeez the extra water out.
3) grasp a place on your sheet where you want to be the center of the dye.
(You can have more than one center) pull it into a type of rope, twisting
and knoting that section up until it has a lot of wrinkles. Bind it
tightly into this shape with a rubber band. Do the same to other areas,
until you have the sheet pretty darn twisted up. Start with your lighter
colors of koolaid first, dippign more of your knot into the dye and letting
it sit long enough for the dye to move it's way into the fabric, but not to
completely saturate it. Squeeze the fabric to get rid of extra water, then
dip less of it into a darker color. Repeate as desired all over the
diffrent knotted sections.
4) Let the knots stay in for a few hours, maybe overnight, then unwrap the
still-wet sheet and lay it on the grass. THE DYE WILL RUN until the sheet
dries, so no carpet or tables here! I have never washed my sheet, so I'm
not sure how permenant the dye is in water, but for a great-smelling,
beautiful wall covering, this is the way to go.
5) Two to Three packets of Koolaid recomended for each regular sized
bowlful of dye.
6) Have fun! (Use baking powder to remove any color from the hands.
Don't use tuperware bowls for the dye, they will absorb the color!)
Kool-Aid Play Dough:
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1 cup flour 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 package unsweetened Kool-Aid 1/4 cup salt
2 tablespoons cream of tartar 1 cup water
Mix flour, salt, cream of tartara and Kool-Aid in a medium pot
Add water and oil. Stir over medium heat 3 to 5 minutes. When
mixture forms a ball in pot, remove. Knead until smooth. Put in
a plastic bag and refrigerate.
-from Ellen Davis' WWW page.
Kool Sugar Rush Jill Boughey (ath...@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
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For that great-tasting sugar rush: try a packet of koolaid and a cup or
more of sugar (depending on how much tartness you like) in a sealable
plastic baggie for a great sugar rush that turns your tongue red (or
purple, or blue) and gets you really hyped for a party. Really popular
among high school and junior high kids! Probably not mother-approved.
Kool-Slushy:
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Pretty self-explanatory, but here's the basics:
Combine your favourite Kool-Aid flavour with sugar, water, and ice in
desired proportions and blend. You may have to stop the blender and
use a spoon to push all of the ice to the bottom. Be sure to use
some water, and not all ice, otherwise it will be too thick and will
be difficult to blend.
Kool Snow Slushy: (Rock-a-dial Rachel)
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When I was a kid, My sisters and I would get a bowl of snow, then sprinkle
pre-sweetened Kool-aid on it then eat it with a spoon. You may think
this sounds gross, but damn, was it good. Kinda like a snow cone. Try
it this winter. (If you have snow where you live).
Kool Ice Cream (Russell Hansen - rha...@powerup.com.au)
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Mix Ice Cream powder (this was done in Australia, I am unsure of the
availability of such powder elsewhere), with 600 milliliters of whipped
cream, and add one packet of your favourite flavour. A few hours later,
you will have Kool-Aid Flavour Ice Cream (It works very well with
incrediberry, so says Russell).
Kool Ice Cream - Part II - (Michael S. Cooper - msco...@airmail.net)
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Ingredients:
1 8 oz. tub of Cool Whip (or some other whipped topping)
1 4 oz. box of Junket Ice Cream Mix (Vanilla)
1 packet of unsweetened Kool-Aid (your choice)
Cool Whip - $1.25 US
Ice Cream Mix $1.00 US
Kool-Aid $.25 US
Total: $2.50 US
Directions:
Since Cool Whip is usually partially frozen at the store, you need to
thaw it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours before using. Empty
the Cool Whip into a two-quart plastic bowl that you have a lid for.
Pour about a fourth of the ice cream mix into the Cool Whip and stir
briskly. I use a wire whip because it helps fold the ingredients
better. Continue adding the ice cream mix a fourth at a time until it
is all mixed in. Then start adding the Kool-Aid the same way. If you
dump it all in at once, it will be a lot harder to mix and maintain
the color throughout the ice cream. After you finish mixing all the
ingredients, you can either eat it as is, or return it to the freezer
(with the lid on) for a couple of hours so it will stiffen up.
Note: This stuff does not get to the consistency of ice cream, but
you may be able to scoop it with a wet scoop if you wish.
Those of you who do not have access to Junket may contact me at
msco...@airmail.net. I have a source for it.
Kool Milk Shakes (Russell Hansen - rha...@powerup.com.au)
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First select your favourite kool-aid flavour. Take 1/4 tsp of kool-aid
powder, 300mls of milk, and 4-5 scoops of ice-cream. It makes a
wonderful treat...
Kool Koffee (Mats Fjellner - d94...@nada.kth.se)
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* 1 red Philips Cafe DUO coffee machine with built-in re-usable filter.
* 1 packet of Oh-Yeah Orange Pineapple.
* Lofbergs Lila (swedish brand) coffee
Step 1:
Pour a small amount of coffee into the filter, and pour a very
thin layer of Kool-Aid on the coffee.
Step 2:
Repeat step 1, until you've used the whole packet of Kool-Aid.
Step 3:
Turn on the coffee machine.
Step 4:
Wait anxiously.
well.. what can i say about the taste.. i can imagine this is what the
coffee they serve in hell must taste like. I guess this is the reason you
never hear about people mixing Kool-Aid with coffee; if anyone's done it
before me, they probably freaked out & got locked up in a cuckoo's nest
somewhere. DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME, KIDS ! Unless you're an experienced
Kool-Aid user & you know what you're doing.
Toasted Kool-Aid: (Joe Kool - jamo...@twics.com)
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1 Packet Kool-Aid Unsweetened Drink Mix Powder
1 Cup Sugar
2 Quarts Water
1 Tablespoon Margarine or Butter (softened)
2 Slices Bread
1. Place margarine and two teaspoons sugar in a very small mixing
bowl or custard dish and set aside.
2. Place remaining sugar and Kool-Aid powder in a large plastic or
glass pitcher and blend thoroughly (keep dry!).
3. Add one teaspoon of Kool-Aid+sugar mixture from pitcher to small
bowl from step 1 and blend until smooth. (This is easiest if the
margarine is very soft.) It'll be grainy, that's OK.
4. Spread onto bread and bake in pre-heated oven at 450F (230C) for
about 5 minutes. Or, broil in toaster-oven on high for about 1
and a half to 2 minutes until very bubbly on top.
5. While the feature item is baking (or broiling), add water to the
pitcher and stir to dissolve. Place in fridge for later :-)
6. Remove Toasted Kool-Aid from oven and kool briefly before serving.
Makes two slices.
Kool-Aid Rice Krispies Squares (Robert Stave <st...@why.net>)
------------------------------
I was looking in my Sunday paper and noticed an ad for Rice Krispies.
They Suggest that you add a pack of Kool-aid to your batch of Rice Krispy
treats for fruity flavor and wacky color.
Dyeing Wool (Robert Matthews)
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What I use KA for, like many of my fellow knitters, is dyeing wool. It
makes a really great dye, with bright colours that hang around, as long as
you don't leave them lying in the sun for a long time. Grape is the best;
it gives a brilliant, fresh-looking purple that ordinary chemical dyes
just can't seem to manage.
Sharon (hus...@why.net) has also suggested that The Knitting Network's site
(http://www.io.org/~spamily/knit/Dyeing.html) is a good place to get
information on dyeing all sorts of fibres with Kool-Aid.
Dyeing Fish (Steve Schaefer sch...@interpac.net)
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Many years ago I fished commercially for salmon in Alaska. King Salmon
have two flesh colors , a deep orange and quite rarely white. The two
flesh colors tasted the same but we recieved only a fraction of the
price for the white fleshed variety so a friend found that he could dye
the incision on the belly of the white fleshed fish to a deep orange
color (with orange Kool-Aid of courrse) thereby increasing the value of
his catch.
Sour BANG! Kids (MJca...@pmg.stu.rpi.edu)
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* First get all the supplies. Here's what ya need...
+ A microwave.
+ Some sour-patch kids!
+ Some Kool-aid mix, we used grape.
+ A plate, we recommend ceramic and not paper!
* Next step: preperation.
+ Spread a layer of Kool-aid mix on the plate. Make sure you
put enough on or else you'll have to scrape your kids off
your plate.
+ Place some sour-patch kids on top of the Kool-aid mix.
+ Sprinkle plenty of Kool-aid mix on top of the sour-patch
kids.
* Alright, now your ready to nuke your kids!
+ Place the plate in the microwave.
+ Microwave on high for about 45 secs. to about 1:30 depending
on how many kids you have.
+ We recommend that you watch the microwave process, and
shutting off the microwave when you see the Kool-aid melt into
your kids.
+ Note if you over cook your kids they become hard and crispy,
they are still edible, though. Don't throw your crunchy kids
in the toilet!
+ The more you nuke your kids the bigger the bang of sourness,
try to find a good balance of crunchiness and bang.
* Eat!
+ Place in mouth and chew. Oh yeah, you should probably cool
your kids first.
+ At first you will taste the Kool-aid mix, but don't swallow
yet, it's not over!
+ Pretty soon the Kool-aid wears off and then BANG! your kids
turn sour!
Bubbling Kool-aid (The Merry Prankster)
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Here is something neat-o to try with kool-aid...
take any flavour kool-aid and put it in a clear glass with some dry
ice...it look really swanky...it bubbles and make a little fog...so try
it...dry ice isn't too expensive...especially if you share it with a
bunch of people!!!!!!!
Hot Kool-Aid (Keith - kgun...@isd.net)
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Have you ever tried HOT Kool-Aid? Try it before you dismiss it. It's better
than you might think. Just put a cup in the microwave for about 2 minutes
(depending on microwave). The reds seem to taste best hot, but others
aren't too bad either.
Popsicles (found by Robert Buisson)
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1 pkg. Kool-Aid
1 pkg. jello
1/2 - 1 C sugar
2 C boiling water
2 C cold water
Mix and pour in molds and freeze.
Kool-paint (t...@vcn.bc.ca)
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Put a packet of kool-aid in a bowl and then put in just enough water to
disolve it and you can use it as a kool paint... i have some intresting
designs painted onn my walls.... now i can look at kool-aid anytime i
want! woo!
Industrial Uses of Kool-Aid -Jim Dukat- ( jim...@sierra.net )
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I have another unusual use for kool-aid. I work as an engineer on US flag
merchant ships. We use kool-aid mixed into the control water system of the
auto-shooting fuel purification centrifuges. It is a cheap - excellent -
mild acid and helps to keep scale from forming in the solenoid valves and
control orifices. The consensus is that Grape works best.
Along similar lines - I have also seen kool-aid used in ultraviolet
water purifiers aboard ships to keep scale off the internal quartz
tubes. It is usually charged into the offline standby unit.
Dishwasher Cleaner - Bobby KY (bob...@aol.com)
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I heard a few years ago from a gal who manages an apartment complex, that
they occassionally use orange kool-aid to clean the apartment dishwashers.
You know how hard water stains and soap gunk can accumulate in the
dishwasher? She suggested that a package or 2 run through the regular long
wash cycle will make the inside of the washer sparkling clean. The
Citric Acid helps break down the stains.
IX. What can you tell me about the Atari Kool-Aid video game?
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Below is a description and detailed instruction of the kool-aid video
game. the info comes from a web page at the following URL:
http://www.sponsor.net/~gchancel/2600Stuff/2600Docs/Kool-Aid_Man
KOOL-AID MAN (M-Network)
Instructions
(1 Player vs. Computer)
Help Kool-Aid Man in a battle with the Thirsties! Those insatiable
Thirsties are stealing the water out of your swimming pool. You want to
catch tem when they stop to dip their straws in the pool. Also, help Kool-
Aid Man gobble up Kool-Aid ingredients in order to keep the Thirsties from
bouncing Kool-Aid Man around the backyard.
For your Atari 2600 Game System.
Kool-Aid and Kool-Aid Man are trademarks of General Foods Corporation.
Copyright 1983 General Foods Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Atari is a
trademark of Atari Inc.
THE GAME
[Screen Shot: Score (black number top center of screen), Time (red number
below score), Kool-Aid Man (a pitcher), Backyard Walls (vertical
multi-colored barriers on left and right sides of screen), Pool (blue area
at bottom of screen), Thirsties With Straws (bomb/apple shaped with eyes
looking left and right), Thirsties Without Straws (bomb/apple shaped with
eyes facing forward and sucking water out of the pool) and Water Ingredient
(large floating "W").]
You can move Kool-Aid Man anywhere in your backyard. Make him catch the
Thirsties by colliding with them when they stop to drink the water out of
your swimming pool. For every Thirstie he catches, you add a hundred points
to your score. However, the Thirsties are pretty tough customers! When
they're not standing still, drinking the water out of your swimming pool,
they're moving across the screen, trying to bounce Kool-Aid Man around the
yard. So you best dodge them as they come after you. If a Thirstie hits
Kool-Aid Man, you'll lose control of him temporarily.
You can aid Kool-Aid Man by making him gobble up the Water (W's), Sugar
(S's) and Kool-Aid (K's) which occasionally pass through the yard. He
gobbles them up by catching them on the run. These ingredients make
Kool-Aid Man temporarily unaffected by the moving Thirsties. This means he
can move about without being knocked around by them. That's when you can
really catch the other Thirsties who have stopped to steal your water.
If the Thirsties steal all the water from your pool before you catch every
one of them, the game is over. If you catch them all before that happens,
you WIN and automatically move on to the next level of difficulty.
CONTROLLERS
Use your Left Joystick Controller to move Kool-Aid Man. (The Right Joystick
is not used in this game.) Be sure your controller cable is securely
plugged into the back of the game console. Hold the controller with the
word "top" facing the top of the T.V. screen.
- Push joystick LEFT to move Kool-Aid Man LEFT.
- Push joystick RIGHT to move Kool-Aid Man RIGHT.
- Push joystick FORWARD to move Kool-Aid Man UP.
- Push joystick BACK to move Kool-Aid Man DOWN.
Note: The red button is not used in this game!
DIFFICULTY SWITCHES
The switch on the RIGHT sets the level of difficulty. In the A position,
the Thirsties move at a faster speed. In the B position, the Thirsties move
at a normal speed.
The switch on the LEFT is used to freeze the action of the game by sliding
it to the A position. Position B is used to return the game to action from
the point at which it was stopped. (Always begin with the switch in
position B.)
ACTION!
Get ready to join Kool-Aid Man in battling the Thirsties!
To start the game, press the Reset Switch on the console. Be ready!!!...The
game starts right after Kool-Aid Man breaks through the wall of the yard.
When Kool-Aid Man appears on the screen with the Thirsties, push the Left
Joystick in any of the four directions available.
Controlling Kool-Aid Man: Push your Joystick Controller in the direction you
want Kool-Aid Man to go. Don't let Kool-Aid Man bump into the walls or the
water in the pool. If you do, you'll lose control of him temporarily.
Dodge the Thirsties as they pass horizontally across the screen. If you
don't, you will bounce Kool-Aid Man around the yard, and you will
temporarily lose control of him.
When a Thirstie stops and dunks its straw in the pool, make Kool-Aid Man
bump into it. The Thirstie will disappear from the yard, and you'll add a
hundred points to your score on the screen.
The Kool-Aid Ingredients: You will notice W's, S'S and K's passing
horizontally across the screen. They stand for Water, Sugar and Kool-Aid.
Try to make Kool-Aid Man catch them if you can. He will gobble them up and
music will play. This will keep Kool-Aid Man temporarily unaffected by the
Thirsties. That means he gets bigger, and the moving Thirsties can't bounce
him around. It's the best time to catch as many stationary Thirsties as you
can. But when the music stops, Kool-Aid Man will shrink back to his normal
size and can be knocked around by the Thirsties once again.
Every time Kool-Aid Man gobbles up an ingredient, a little water is added
back to the swimming pool. This amounts to slowing down the clock, so you
have more time to catch the Thirsties.
SCORING
Your score at the top-center of the screen will increase by 100 points for
every Thirstie you catch.
Timing: There are 30 Thirsties trying to drink the water out of your pool.
If you catch every one of them before they drink all the water, you WIN and
automatically move on to the next level of difficulty.
If the Thirsties drink all the water out of your swimming pool before you
catch every one of them, the game is over.
Bonus Points: Bonus points are awarded for the time left on the clock at the
end of each round. So, catch all the Thirsties as fast as you can for the
best score possible!
WINNING TIPS
When Kool-Aid Man gets bounced around by the Thirsties, relax! It will only
last a few seconds. Just be ready to take over when he settles down.
Go after every Ingredient you can. While you're unaffected by the moving
Thirsties, you can catch a lot of other Thirsties who are stealing the water
out of your pool.
X. What is the Kool-Aid Fan-Fic?
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Kool-Aid Fan-Fic is a fictional(?) story of the adventures of Kool-
Aid Man and his struggle against the evils of Flavor-Aid Fella. It
was/is(?) written by Chris M. Ackney, aka GREEN GUY.
Chapter 1. It All Began on a Nice Quiet Day...
Chapter 2. Flavour-Aid Fella on a Rampage!
Chapter 3. Kool-Aid Man, Timmy, and the Flavour-Aid Death Machine.
Chapter 4. Kool-Aid goes Film Noire.
Chapter 5. Gumshoe Kool-Aid
These are now available on the web at the Kool-Aid Archive:
http://www.winnipeg.freenet.mb.ca/~qqs450/kaff.html
XI. Does anyone else mix Kool-Aid flavours?
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Many KA drinkers enjoy creating their own special blends of Kool-Aid.
A list of favourite mixes follows....submit your favourite!!
1 Black Cherry:1 Great Bluedinni (Jodie Zwart)
1 Cherry:1/2 Orange:1/2 lemonade (Kaptain Kool)
1 Grape:1 Orange (Adam, Guru
of the GRAPE)
1 Grape:1 Pink Swimmingo (jimij)
1 Orange:1 Pink Swimmingo....for special occasions (jimij)
1 Cherry:1 Grape (jimij)
1 Grape:1 Raspberry (jimij)
1 Grape:1 Strawberry (jimij)
2 Incrediberry:1 Pink Lemonade....said to taste like Berry Blue??
(unknown)
1 PS-Rex:1 Black Cherry (MugGuy)
1 Lemonade:1 Black Cherry (MudGuy)
1/4 Incrediberry:1/4 Lemon-Lime:1/2 Black Cherry (MudGuy)
1/4 Cherry:3/4 PS-Rex w/1.5 c sugar (MudGuy)
1 PS-Rex:1 Orange.....a true MUD! (MudGuy)
In one gallon jug: (Peter White)
2 c sugar
2 Great Bluedini:1 Incrediberry:1 PS-Rex:1 Lemon-Lime:1 Black Cherry
1 Any flavour:1 Lemonade (Kaptain Kool)
3 1/2 c sugar (Jon Ippel)
3 Great Bluedini:1 PS-Rex
Blood Kool-Aid Amy Mundhenk (amun...@Phoenix.kent.edu)
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1 Package Cherry Sugar-Free
1 Package regular grape
1 cup sugar
1 Dr. Pepper
Water to make 1 Gallon
Mix the kool aid and sugar with the Dr.Pepper. Add water. The results look
remarkably like blood and taste like killer pixy sticks. This recipie was
invented by my friend D.M. who is one of those "more vampyric than thou"
types.
Lemonade with an Orange (Mark Atkins)
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Use one orange for each packet of lemonade KA. Make KA as usual. Fill
container about halfway. Slice orange, and place slices in KA. Since
the ends of the orange will be mostly peel, I squeeze that to get the
juice into the KA, then toss the peel. Fill container to top, then place
in the cooler. It needs to sit awhile to let everything mix. I let it
set overnight. After you drink your KA, you have tasty oranges to eat.
KOOL-AID FRUIT PUNCH (Paul Lindberg)
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Ingredients:
2 packets UNsweetened red Koolaid mix
2 2-liter bottles soda
1 can frozen lemonade concentrate
1 can frozen pineapple juice concentrate
sugar, as needed
Mixing instructions:
Make up the koolaid ahead of time, by dissolving in a small amount on
water (as little as possible). Don't add sugar! Cool this mixture.
With everything cold, mix it all together, just before the party. You
can add sherbert to keep it cold, or make ice cubes, or an ice cube
ring, using the koolaid mixture. You probably won't need to add any
sugar to this, as the soda, lemondade, and pineapple juice should
contain plenty.
Super Kool-Aid (Brian O'Shea bwo...@uiuc.edu)
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Here's the Recipe for Brian O'Shea's Super Kool-Aid
"So good it crunches!"
Still legal in 13 states - and Puerto Rico! (Approval pending in
Canada)
Ingredients:
12 ozs pre-mixed Fruit Punch Kool-Aid (the stuff with the sugar already
in it)
2 packages unsweetened kool-aid ( I recommend Pink Lemonade and Cherry
flavor)
2 1/2 pounds sugar (approx. 1 kilogram) Note: Better more than less!
Water
Put the sugar, sweetened, and unsweetened kool-aid packages into a
two-quart container. Add lots of ice, add water to two-quart line, and
shake. Serve! For more entertaining results, add one dose of a
commercial caffeine supplement such as Vivarin per 8-oz serving and
shake until fully dissolved.
Notes: This is best taken when you don't have to get up early -
hyperactivity is a common side-effect.
XII. Recapturing Lost Flavours through Kool-Aid Mixing
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In my many experiences with K-A, I have found mixes that taste like
some of the discontinued flavors.
Purplesaurus Rex
1.5 scoops Grape
2.5 scoops Lemonaid
Sunshine Punch
2 Scoops Orange
2 Scoops Lemonaid
Hope this helps those who miss these flavors as much as I do.
-Olanin (fs...@aurora.alaska.edu)
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There are also cheap immitations of lost Kool-Aid Flavours still
available on the market...
From: Susan Hoover <71061...@CompuServe.COM>
Drink Aid (an American immitation of Kool-Aid) has the following flavours
which approximate discontinued flavours:
Kangablue Brew - this is Great Bluedini in disguise; it even
starts out green and changes to blue
Purple Mania - this is a grape / lemonade mix; Its their version of
Purplesaurus Rex?
Boppin' Redbird - god knows; this is a red drink that tastes
kind of like raspberry-cherry-fruit punch (Rock-a-dile Red)
XIII. Kool-Aid and Alcohol:
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This section is for your favorite alcoholic bevarages involving Kool-Aid.
-Dead Puppy
Gin + Grape Kool-Aid (Ken Meredith, Rob's
friend)
-T-Bomb (Rob Buisson found it)
1 packet Lemon-Lime Kool-Aid
same portion Tequila
1 bottle Corona Beer
-Shaker (Rob Buisson found it)
1 1/2 oz Tequila
3 oz pineapple juice
1/2 oz Lemonade Kool-Aid
1/2 tsp grenadine
-Antifreeze (Pink Lloyd)
32 Oz. Kiwi-Lime Kool-Aid
2 Oz. Vodka
-Merry Bloody Forest (unknown)
1 Part Raspberry Kool-Aid
1 part Orange Juice
1 Part Vodka
-Smurf Piss (unknown)
2 parts Berry Blue Kool-Aid
2 parts Mountain Dew soda
1 Part Grain Alcohol
-Swamp Water #2 (unknown)
1 Part Orange Juice
1 Part Berry Blue Kool-Aid
1 Part Southern Comfort
-PS Rex-Rum (Jennifer, Ruler of Rex)
My personal fave mix is a little PS Rex and about two oz. Spiced Rum.
Makes a fascinating treat. If you make a whole batch you can put it in
the freezer and make slushies. It's great for those parties where you
wanna try a little something different.
-Velvet Crush (Travis W Fisher)
If you have ever heard of the band Soul Coughing, they mention an
alcoholic drink called a Velvet Crush. It is described simply as "Kool
Aid and Gin"
-Kool-Aid Dacquiri (KellyAnn - 71534...@CompuServe.COM)
-Dissolve 1 cup sugar in 1 pint hot water
-Add Kool-Aid powder (Black Cherry is recommended) blend well and cool.
-Add a few ounces of this concentrate to a blenderful of ice and rum,
blend and voila!
-The "Vodka-Kiwi-Lime Effect" (IoKA)
I added vodka to kiwi-lime kool-aid once, and it turned clear green (as
opposed to its normal semi-cloudy appearence).
-GLOWING BLUEDINI-EVERCLEAR (Tirza)
Adding everclear to great bluedini and then putting it into one of those
frosted glass Flintstones cups that McDonald's used to sell creates one of
most aesthetically pleasing beverages that anyone could ever want. It glows
kind of like the core of a nuclear reactor.
-PURPLE PANTIE PULLDOWNS (Norbert)
1 package grape
1 package lemonade
2 cups sugar
.5 liters of Vodka
Squishy: Brian Mathis (gen...@mail.csh.rit.edu)
1. Fill a blender all the way with ice.
2. Pour water into the blender so its about half full.
3. Put in as much vodka (devil's springs) as you like.
2 shots for you wusses
3 shots ok
4 shots nice and strong
4. Dump in your favorite Kool-Aid(tm) flavor, use enough
for about 1.5 quarts of Kool-Aid(tm).
5. Fill the rest of the way with water.
6. Blend until there are no ice chunks left.
7. Pour into your favorite serving container and enjoy.
8. After you've got a few in ya, send us E-mail.
Slarty Bartfast (Amy Mundhenk - amun...@kent.edu)
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-1/2 Grape Kool-Aid
-1/2 Southern Comfort
K-A and Jack Daniels (Andrew Loftus - sk...@prairienet.org)
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Jack Daniels and Black Cherry or Fruit Punch makes a wonderfully
smooth drink. Mr. Daniels knew what he was doing when he distilled the
best whiskey. Enjoy!
Windex Curtis R. Anderson - (gle...@intelligencia.com)
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Find Berry Blue, and mix it with Alcohol. ITs a tasty treat that looks
like window cleaner.
XIV. How can I get Kool-Aid flavours that aren't sold in my area?
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Alt.drinks.kool-aid is an excellent aid in acquiring those rare
flavours and old packets of Kool-Aid. Just post a message with what
you are looking for. You may have to be persistent, but the payoff
can be quite good. Many have acquired several extinct flavours in this
way.
Secondly, consult the kool-traders list. It contains a list of people who
want to trade kool-aid. For more info, check the kool-traders list, or
e-mail Rob Buisson (umbu...@cc.umanitoba.ca or qqs...@freenet.mb.ca)
You may also find the list on the World Wide Web at:
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umbuiss2/kool.html
XV. How do I get in touch with the good folks at Kool-Aid?
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By phone: USA 1-800-367-9225
Canada 1-800-268-7808
By mail: in the USA Kraft General Foods, Inc.
Box RK-BC
West Plains, NY 10625
USA
in Canada Kraft General Foods Canada, Inc.
Don Mills, Ontario.
M3C 3J5
CANADA
XVI. Where else do they sell Kool-Aid?
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-This is a hard question to answer. Research in this area is
ongoing. Naturally, it is available in the US and Canada. Ron
Gregory has acquired a single serving packet from somewhere in the
Middle East. It has arabic writing (maybe) on it, but the origin is
unknown. If you think you can help by reading the packet, e-mail
Ron or Rob Buisson.
Mexico
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- Also, Christine Jean Lee (stie...@leland.Stanford.EDU) has discovered
that Kool-aid is found in abundance in Mexico. In fact, Mexico is the
only place where Cola Kool-Aid is found.
The following is an excerpt from a brochure Ron received from Kraft:
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The Kraft General Foods Inc. (KGFI) international markets are
Middle East and Africa:
~~~
Best selling products across the area include Tang powdered beverage,
Kraft cheddar cheese in the famous "blue can," cream cheese spread,
mayonnaise, Maxwell House coffee, Jell-O desserts and Vitalite
margarine.
Our largest area markets are Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,
Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and Bahrain, with agressive developemnt
plans to expand sales in Egypt, Algeria and Moroco.
Asia/Pacific
~~~
KGFI's Asia/Pacific region, headquatered in Hong Kong, includes
countries in varying stages of development: from westernized
Australia and New Zealand, and highly industrialized Japan and South
Korea, to such emerging economies as those of India, Thailand,
Indonesia and the People's Republic of China....
Our present operations are most extensive in Australia, Japan, South
Korea and the Philippines. Although coffee and cheese are our key
categories in the region, the product portfolio varies markedly from
country to country.
... In the Philippines, we have a commanding position in the cheese
market and are strongly represented in the powdered beverage
catagory, with our Tang and Kool-Aid brands.
[tiny photo of "Kool-Aid Juicers Strawberry Drink Mix" all in English.
very colorful picture of strawberries as backgroud. Of course there
are two Tang items... a packet and a jar :-(]
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Kool-Aid was only mentioned in the Philippines section...
-Here are the French versions of Kool-Aid flavours. They are not
necessarily literal translations, but are the names as they appear on
the packets, in Canada.
English French
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Cherry Cerise
Orange Orange
Lemon-Lime Citron-Limette
Strawberry Fraise
Tropical Punch Punch Tropical
Lemonade Limonade
Grape Raisin
Incrediberry Magicolore
Pink Swimingo Flambant Rose
PurpleSaurus Rex MauvoSaurus Rex
Rock-a-dile Red Rock-o-dile Rouge
Sharkleberry Fin Requin' Drole
Orange-Pineapple Orange-Ananas
Mango-Berry Baies-Mangue
Kiwi-Lime Kiwi-Limette
Strawberry-Kiwi Fraise-Kiwi
Berry Blue Baies Bleu
Kool-Aid in Great Britain
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Thanks to Keri, who supplied us with the location of England's
underground supply of "black market" kool-aid...
I am American, but I'm studying in Manchester, England this year. No one
here knows what kool-aid even is, let alone where I could buy some, so my
mom has been mailing some to me every week. However, when browsing through
Affleck's Palace (a big building with stalls where they sell stuff, like a
market sort of thing), I found a guy who was selling individual packets
for 50p, which is about 75 american cents! It is robbery, but the guy has
to have friends in the US mail him the kool-aid every month, so the costs
are bound to be high.
-Keri Rains
Sweden (Mats Fjellner d94...@nada.kth.se)
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Kool-Aid is not sold in Stores in Sweden, but a dealer from the United
States sends "all the kool-aid that they need". Mats Fjelner and his
friends celebrate kool-aid periodically (about once a month) by holding a
festival, known as the "Lappis Kool-Aid Festial". They have been holding
this festival since 1995. The Festival is named after the area of Sweden
where it is held
Japan (Lynn Wiegard - lwie...@uoguelph.ca)
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Kool-Aid is about to start a Trial run in Japan. If you have anymore
info on the Japanese sale of Kool-Aid, please inform Rob Buisson, or post
to alt.drinks.kool-aid.
-If you have friends in other countries, ask them if they sell Kool-
Aid where they live.
XVII. "What kind of kool-aid did the people of Jonestown drink?"
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It is a popular misconception that 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones
committed suicide by drinking Grape kool-aid laced with cyanide at their
commune in Jonestown Guyana in the late 1970's. This is not true. The
followers of Jones actually drank cyanide laced flavor-aid, a cheap
imitation of kool-aid. The flavor-aid flavour they consumed was grape.
Therefore, Kool-Aid played no part in this tragedy.
XVIII. What is the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test?
---------------------------------------------
Thanks to David Jones <djo...@eng.mc.xerox.com>
Mats Fjellner <d94...@nada.kth.se>
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" is a book about author Ken Kesey ("One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" etc.), the Merry Pranksters, and assorted
other "60s types" going around in a refurbished school bus and giving
people Kool-Aid spiked with LSD to see how they react. This was in the
real early days of the hippie culture, (1965-66) before LSD was
criminalized (in late 1966).
I daresay the publicity people at Kool-Aid were not very happy about
having their product associated with such things. You won't find it in
official company histories.
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" was written by Tom Wolfe ("The Right
Stuff") and published in 1968 or 69, depending on which catalog entry
you believe. Apparently Kesey et al. weren't too fond of Wolfe or the
book. He seems to have hung around for a few days and then headed back
for the big city, where they know how to look after guys in white suits.
XIX. The Wacky Warehouse
-------------------------
A thank you to Paul Schmidt for the updated Wacky Warehouse Info.
The Wacky Warehouse is a trading post of sorts that rewards loyal
kool-aid drinkers to mail in their kool-aid points for prizes. In the
past, kool-aid watches, walkmans, t-shirts and smiling pitchers have been
available. In 1995, the wearhouse changed the way it operates, and now
only offers prizes on a periodic basis.
A new Wacky Warehouse catalog was released sometime in March-April 1996,
and should be available in stores that sell kool-aid. If you want to find
out what specifically is available you can call the Kool-Aid number and
select the Wacky Warehouse part. The number is 1-800-367-9225 (in the
US) or 1-800-268-7808 (in Canada).
You can also write the Wacky Warehouse in the US:
WACKY WAREHOUSE
P.O. Box 3328
Maple Plain, MN 55593-3328
Or in Canada:
WACKY WAREHOUSE
P.O. Box 5120
Paris, Ontario
N3L 3W5
XX. Is there a differnce between regular and super-fruity kool-aid?
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Well, there is substantial debate about this. On December 27, 1994, in my
kitchen in Winnipeg Manitoba, I conducted a taste test between Regualar
Orange and Super Fruity Orange. The next day I performed a similar test
between regular and super-fruity Cherry. My conclusion was, that in both
cases, there was no difference at all. However, others refuse to believe
those results, and adamantly deny my claims.
-Rob Buisson
XXI. Is kool-aid ever featured in the Media?
--------------------------------------------
Recently, Kool-Aid has recieved much attention from the media, mainly due
to the hair dying craze. Here is a brief list of appearances the
Kool-Aid has made in the media.
January, 1996: Article entitled "Never too old to be a kool-aid kid"
appears in a 'Zine called "Avalanche". (The article is available online
at The Kool-Aid Web Archive).
April 17, 1996: A Canada Newswire article appears about a charitable
project called "Kool-Aid for Kids" (available on-line via the kool-aid web
archive)
July, 1996: Article entitled "Kool-Aid Goes to Kids heads" appears in the
Wall Street Journal. It also appears in the Halifax Chronical-Herald on
July 24. It is written by Yumiko Ono, and is available on line at the
Kool-Aid Web Archive.
July-August 1996: Not to be outdone, CBS News and the Fort Lauderdale
Sun-Sentinal both interview Matt Mankins, (Creator of the Hey Kool-Aid
Page) for stories about kool-aid hair dying. Data about when these
stories appeared is incomplete.
September 16, 1996: A mini-article entitled "Dye-namite fun" appears in
Maclean's Magazine, on page 15. (The article is about kool hair-dye).
October 1, 1996: An interview with Rob Buisson, Keeper of the Kool-Aid FAQ
is featured on page 65 of "Internet Underground". It is in the October
1996 issue (Issue #11). The FAQ, the newsgroup and of course kool-aid are
discussed.
If you know of any other media stories about kool-aid, please e-mail Rob
Buisson with the details (umbu...@cc.umanitoba.ca or qqs...@freenet.mb.ca)
XXII. Where else can I find Kool-Aid on the 'net?
--------------------------------------------------
Here are some other sources of Kool Stuff. If you find any other
links, please let us know!
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umbuiss2/kool.html
-The Kool Traders list on the web. You can contact all those on
this list via e-mail directly through the web version of the list.
http://www.winnipeg.freenet.mb.ca/~qqs450
-Your Humble FAQ maintainer's own web page, which has links to most
(if not all) the kool-aid web sites mentioned in this FAQ, as well
as a few others.
-Special bonuses include Kaptain Kool's amazing Kool-Aid jpeg
gallery, as well as some Temple of Orange sites.
-Also features the Kool-Aid Fan-Fic
http://www.yahoo.com/text/Entertainment/Drinks_and_Drinking/Soft_Drinks/Kool_Aid/
-Kool-Aid at Yahoo
http://www.arc.miami.edu/matt/koolaid.htm
-Ten assorted uses for Kool-Aid. There are a couple nice Kool-
Aid pictures including a picture of a strip of Cherry Cracker!
Also features the interactive Kool-Aid Voting Booth!
http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~gerald/koolaid/
-Kool-Aid Fun Page
-features some great pic's of kool-aid man, and tons of other kool
stuff.
http://intelspm.physics.purdue.edu/~dschleef/gb.html
-The Great Bluedini Page
http://www.nada.kth.se/~d94-mfj/festmain.html
-The Lappis Kool-Aid festival homepage (From Sweden)
http://www.art.ohiou.edu/Huck/koolaid.html
* -How to properly make Black Cherry Kool-Aid
http://www.duke.edu/~tuckgq/kool.html
-Some Kool-Aid reminiscing and lots of links to other Kool-Aid
pages.
http://www.panix.com/~celefex/koolaid.html
-A superfruity kool-aid homepage.
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~gizmo/koolaid/
-A German language kool-aid page (I don't know what it says).
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~hartwel1/humor/LISTS/REJECTED_FLAVORS_KOOLAID_10.HTML
-Top Ten list of rejected kool-aid flavors.
http://www.newswire.ca/releases/April1996/17/c2269.html
-A Canada Newswire article about the "Kool-Aid For Kids" project
http://www2.southwind.net/~willie/DrinksListing/index/Ingred/KoolAid.html
-An archive of alcoholic Kool-Aid beverages.
http://kitchen.bianca.com/shack/kitchen/cookbook/96/01/29/2.html
-Another kool-aid Alcoholic beverage site.
http://www.pvv.unit.no/pallobin/webtender/001183
-Alcoholic kool-aid fruit punch
http://www.pvv.unit.no/pallobin/webtender/001509
-Recipe for "Killer Kool-Aid".
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~gentry/squishy_recipe.html
-Recipe for a Kool-Aid Squishy
http://www.anonymous.com/Issue7/horoscopes.html
-Your horoscope, based on your favourite kool-aid flavour.
http://www.io.org/~spamily/knit/Dyeing.html
-The Knitting Network's page on Dyeing fibres with kool-aid.
http://www.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca/weavers/dye.html
-More Kool-Aid Dye information.
http://www.gene.com/ae/AE/ATG/kool_aid_lab.html
-A kids kool-aid science lab experiment.
http://www.schoolnet.ca/math_sci/chem/worldofchem/pages/page5.html
-Another series of kool-aid lab experiments.
http://www.unt.edu/~mtt0001/koolaide.html
-A kool-aid poem
http://www.cswnet.com/~choate/choate/poetry/koolaid.html
-Another kool-aid poem
http://www.thenet.net/~iamme/monolog2b/html
-A monologue about an aging kool-aid man.
http://www.trincoll.edu/tj/tj4.6.95/articles/kool.aid.html
-A short story entitled "One Kool-Aid point short".
http://www.isu.edu/~blakdavi/stories/kool-aid.html
* -A short story entitled "Billy Bob and the adventures of Kool-Aid Man"
http://www.screen.com/streetsite/food/kool.html
-A Kool-Aid Sugar Guide.
http://www.math.rpi.edu/~foresj/coolstuff.html
-A recipe for "Sour BANG! Kids" which is a candy made with Kool-Aid.
http://www.druid.com/~carol/recipes/popsicles
-Recipe for Kool-Aid Popsicles.
http://www.vt.edu:10021/A/apathwic/pka.html
-Home page for a rock band called "Project Kool-Aid".
http://www.ucsd.edu/sdam/artists/kool-aid
-Home page for another rock band. This one is simply called "Kool-Aid"
If any of the above links are outdated, please tell Robert Buisson about
it so that the link may be updated or elimintated from the FAQ.
Exhaustive list of sites that house the Kool-Aid FAQ
----------------------------------------------------
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/food/kool-aid-faq.html
-Current version of the Kool-Aid FAQ, at Utrecht University FAQ site.
-This WWW version features direct links to all of these web pages below.
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/alt.drinks.kool-aid.html
-Current version of the Kool-Aid FAQ, at Oxford's FAQ site
-This version also features links to all of the web pages below.
http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~koeb8249/kafaq.html
-Chris Koeberle's totally hyperlinked version of the FAQ. Although
not updated as ofter as the other two web versions, you can navigate
through this version far faster, and is the most eye-pleasing K-A
FAQ on the net.
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/alt.drinks.kool-aid
http://www.ccu.edu.tw:8080/faq/alt/drinks/kool-aid
http://tremaine.cc.uec.ac.jp/japanese/archives/news.answers/food/kool-aid-faq
http://ftp.kam.tuwien.ac.at/faqs-hierarchy/alt/alt.drinks.kool-aid/
http://www.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/ftp/pub/doc/faq/food
http://www.zel.etf.hr/ftp/pub/faq/food
http://www.ind.net/ftp/faqs/alt/answers/food
http://fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de:8080/~mhb/ftp/fu-ftp/faq/food
http://www.zel.etf.hr/Elekronska-possta/pub/faq/food/
http://www.utdallas.edu/~johnpaz/help/koolaid.txt
http://www.pasteur.fr/other/computer/FAQ/food/kool-aid-faq
http://ring.aist.go.jp/archives/misc/NetNews/FAQandDOCS/alt.drinks.kool-aid/kool-aid_FAQ
http://sunsite/auc.dk/ftp/pub/usenet/alt.answers/food/kool-aid-faq
-Various other sites where the Kool-Aid FAQ is archived.
FTP
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The kool-aid FAQ is available by FTP at:
rftm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/food/kool-aid-faq
Mail Server
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The kool-aid FAQ is available through a mail server at:
mail-...@rtfm.MIT.EDU To get the FAQ, just include the following
message in the body of your e-mail:
send usenet/news.answers/food/kool-aid-faq
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This FAQ was originally compiled by the one and only Kaptain Kool, AKA
Kevin Whalen (wha...@pfizer.com). It was taken over by Robert Buisson
in October of 1995.
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Anyone who has anything to add to the FAQ or would like to have a copy
mailed to them may feel free to e-mail Rob Buisson at
umbu...@cc.umanitoba.ca or at qqs...@freenet.mb.ca (c) 1995, 1996
--
Robert Buisson - Univesity of Manitoba - Law II - umbu...@cc.umanitoba.ca
http://www.winnipeg.freenet.mb.ca/~qqs450/rob/
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