Jim Jones and the suicides: Why Flavor Aid and not Kool-Aid?

[Guinastasia]

Because he was that much of a bastard that even knowing it was going to be mass suicide, he STILL wouldn’t spring for the more expensive stuff?

[Ike_Witt]

@Balthisar

Aspirin is still a brand name in some places (like Canada). For those in places (like Canada), it’s a lost trademark in the USA.

Wasn’t Heroin a brand name as well?

[Derleth]

@Ike_Witt

Wasn’t Heroin a brand name as well?

Yes; both Aspirin and Heroin were owned by Bayer, a German company, and they were both lost in America as a result of the First World War.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Derleth

Yes; both Aspirin and Heroin were owned by Bayer, a German company, and they were both lost in America as a result of the First World War.

I had no idea about Heroin! Interesting stuff: http://drugs.uta.edu/heroin.html

[Markxxx]

@GIGObuster

He does mention the Kool-Aid, but I have some doubts about the Flavor-Aid, looks like it says Flavor-Aid, but can someone confirm if the boxes look like the wholesale packaging that Flavor-Aid used in the 80’s?

No it definately says Kool Aid

Here’s a screen shot from the above clip

[caligulathegod]

This is one of the oddest questions ever. It reminds me of something John Waters use to say. He got a job at Vogue magazine because he wanted a press pass. He wanted a Vogue press pass so he could go to accident and murder sites and ask the police what kinds of shoes the victims were wearing.

[Richard_Pearse]

@Elendil_s_Heir

It’s on top of the fridge. After I’m done xeroxing this, I need an aspirin, but then I’ll get it for you.

Fridge was a brand name?

[Richard_Pearse]

@Elendil_s_Heir

It’s on top of the fridge. After I’m done xeroxing this, I need an aspirin, but then I’ll get it for you.

Fridge was a brand name?

[GIGObuster]

@Markxxx

No it definately says Kool Aid

Here’s a screen shot from the above clip

I was not clear enough, the ones reporting on the documentary say that **both **packages of Kool-Aid and Flavor-ade are in the crate. (Film resolution could be the difference here)

The possible Flavor-Aid packs are to the left of the Kool-Aid ones, but it is not so clear on video resolution, hence the need to compare the boxes with bulk Flavor-Ade packages of the day.

[Balthisar]

@Richard_Pearse

Fridge was a brand name?

The worst brand name ever. I’m tired of seeing “refridgerator” all over the internet.

[Sailboat]

@Richard_Pearse

Fridge was a brand name?

I guess that depends on whether one thinks “fridge” decends from Frigidaire, a brand name, or refrigerator, a word dating back to 1605 (in its earlier variant “refrigeratory”).

[Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker]

@GIGObuster

I was not clear enough, the ones reporting on the documentary say that **both **packages of Kool-Aid and Flavor-ade are in the crate. (Film resolution could be the difference here)

That’s possible. This is the same footage that I mentioned in the OP, and in the various docs there’s no question that there are containers of both mixes.

[Ludovic]

Didn’t Jim Jones and the Suicides open for the Brian Jonestown Massacre?