kool-aid

     

Kool-Ai is a brand of artificially-flavored soft drink mix owned by the Kraft Foods Company.

Trivia about kool-aid

  • To our knowledge, this company's "Pitcher Man" has never offered to help rebuild a wall he destroyed
  • Its smiling-faced pitcher was trademarked back in the 1950s
  • Originally called Fruit Smack & sold as a syrup, it was reformulated as a powder in 1927 & renamed this
  • In 1927 Edwin Perkins of Hastings, Nebraska invented this powdered soft drink
  • I get hot & thirsty reading clues all day; this is a job for this drink & its pitch-pitcher's cry of "Oh yeah!"
  • With flavors like lemon-lime & black cherry, this official soft drink of Nebraska keeps the kids smiling
  • Nebraskan Edwin Perkins created a fruit drink he named this, a nod to its summertime appeal