Yea or Nay?
-FrL-
(Point of clarification: It has not been mixed with water)
Cannister or packet? IOW, does it already have the sugar in it? If so, then I would toss it. If it’s the packet, I’d use it.
Its a packet with no sugar.
Man, I havent had kool-aid in four years. This is going to be interesting.
-Kris
You must drink it.
It’s for science.
Oh, Kool-Aid lives forever. My husband and I haven’t bought any in at least 5 or 6 years, and a few weeks ago we drank several pitchers of it. It’s just fine.
Um, IANA Kool-Aid expert and YMMV. 
I had to read all the follow-up posts before I understood we were talking about a four year old packet of Kool Aid, rather than a four year old + a packet of Kool Aid.
I was thinking “Sure, let the four year old eat the Kool Aid. If it doesn’t have sugar in it s/he’s not going to like it and that will teach her/him a valuable lesson in something. Not sure in what, but in something.”
It seems that in most cases, if kept well, Kool-Aid pouches don’t go bad. Some people even like to collect and taste-test extinct Kool-Aid flavors from Kool-Aid’s flavor heyday in the '80s and '90s. Based on these amusing flavor reviews, old Kool-Aid still tastes good. Oh yeah!
If you don’t drink it, will you ever be able to sleep, knowing what might have been.
Do it.
Realize, of course, that a lack of response to this thread will make us all assume death has ensued.
Oh, it’ll be fine. When my aunt passed away, she had a stash of Kool-Aid packs that looked decades old. I used them with no ill effects.
(…Well, except that in addition to tasting the flavors, I could see them!)
I wanted to post to x-entertainment! I vote for drinking the Kool-Aid too. Tell us how it tastes when you’re done…if you survive.
Yea. I just made up a pitcher of four-year-old Crystal Light, and it’s fine…it was a bit clumpy in the little cup, but dissolved just fine in the water, and it’s been 24 hours and no one has died.
It should be fine. I’m just now drinking a tall glass of four-year-old Kool-Aid and I’m
I love the straight dope
It was probably found in a box marked “People’s Temple stuff”
Boy, this started off reassuring.
Oh, for Og’s sake, the packets are like what, 25 cents a piece? Pitch it and go buy a fresh one.
Yeesh.
But…but…but the SCIENCE! The world wants to know!
After all, this guy ate vintage Urkel-O’s from 1991. For science.
(At least the milk wasn’t that old.)
Pshaw! Peasants these days. My Kool-Aid sommelier just brought me a lovely 1979 Cherry Lemonade with a wonderfully fruity bouquet. It complemented my meal perfectly too (franks ‘n’ beans).
I’d gladly try 20 year old Kool Aid if I discovered a packet of Apple flavor!
What would possibly have gone wrong with it?