Let’s drink a Kood-Aid

    • @ChicoSuave
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      133 months ago

      They discontinued it in the 70s and replaced it with red cabbage

    • @ChicoSuave
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      293 months ago

      Between 1910 and 1960 there was a weird fascination with the purity of things. Ivory soap (99% pure) is a hold over from that time. It was probably coded eugenics or some racist undercurrent among consumers.

      • @skyspydude1
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        153 months ago

        Read Sinclair’s “The Jungle” and you’ll definitely understand the obsession with purity. It was about as regulated as “100% natural” is these days, but at least meant that your “100% pure beef” was less likely to be cut with sawdust or rat meat or something.

    • Bob Robertson IX
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      93 months ago

      I was at a restaurant last night and they had some vintage signs on the walls. One was an ad for ketchup and it said “Guaranteed 100% Pure”… and I don’t even know what that means in terms of ketchup (or in this case Kool-Aid).

      • @[email protected]
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        153 months ago

        It’s that era’s “made with natural ingredients”. It means nothing, just marketing blabber.

  • Mister Neon
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    263 months ago

    The kid in the yellow striped shirt creeps me out.

    • @Darkard
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      443 months ago

      I’m gonna fucking get you in your sleep buddy

      • Mister Neon
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        233 months ago

        He has that look of, “Hey you’re still alive. Time to fix that”.

  • @[email protected]
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    143 months ago

    Offhand I think “grape” is my least-favorite artificial flavor of all time, but lookie there-- that’s a rather pleasant photo!

    Maybe because it sort of balances secondary colors of purple, green, and off-oranges.

    • @[email protected]
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      63 months ago

      Can you imagine how much photoshopping work it took to get that hue? And photoshop was probably only available in black and white at the time.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    113 months ago

    You know Kool-Aid is pure

    Pure what? It’s not pure anything. It’s mostly sugar and water, with some chemical flavorings.

  • @systemglitch
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    73 months ago

    I know people with no teeth almost exclusively because of kool-aid.

  • Constant Pain
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    63 months ago

    So sad we don’t have ice box shelves anymore…