Flavor Aid

Flavor Aid is a non-carbonated soft drink beverage made by Jel Sert, introduced in 1929. It is sold throughout the United States as a sweetened powdered concentrate drink mix, similar to Kool-Aid drink mix.

Flavors

Flavor Aid comes in the following flavors: Cherry, Raspberry, Grape, Berry Punch, Tropical Punch, Orange, Lemonade, Lemon-Lime, Strawberry and Kiwi-Watermelon.

Flavor Aid has also introduced several flavors that catered to the Hispanic population with bilingual packaging and various exotic flavors From the Jel Sert website, accessed January 29, 2007] The Hispanic versions do not include Cherry or Berry Punch, and have instead Root Beer, Mango, Apple, Jamaica, Tamarindo, Tangerine, and Pineapple-Orange.

Jonestown suicide

Around 914 followers of Jim Jones committed suicide or were murdered by drinking or allegedly being forced to drink cyanide-laced grape Flavor Aid in 1978. [ [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/JonestownReport/Volume6/tapeyohnk.htm Jonestown] ] Erroneous references to the mass suicide, in combination with existing references to "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" of the Merry Pranksters, gave rise to the saying "Don't drink the Kool-Aid" as a reference to those who blindly follow an authority even if it leads to serious harm or death. A camera from inside the compound shows a large chest being opened showing boxes of both drinks. [ [http://www.history.com/media.do?action=clip&id=tdih_nov18_broadband History Channel media] ] There is also testimony from criminal investigators at the Jonestown inquest stating that there were "cool aid" (sic) packets there. [ [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/PrimarySources/GuyanaInquest.pdf Guyana inquest.] ] It is unknown whether these are a reference to the Kool-aid brand packets from the trunk, or simply a generic use of the more popular brand for the product.

External links

* [http://www.jelsert.com/products_flavoraid.asp Jel Sert's Flavor-Aid page]
* [http://www.jelsert.com/products_wylers.asp Jel Sert's Wyler's page]
* [http://www.koolaiduk.com/index.php?cPath=33 www.koolaiduk.com] supplying Flavor Aid Worldwide.

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