# Four year old Kool-Aid **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 7, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103 "2008-08-07T00:56:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/1 "2008-08-07T00:56:28Z")
Yea or Nay? -FrL- (Point of clarification: It has not been mixed with water) ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/2 "2008-08-07T00:58:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/3 "2008-08-07T01:03:24Z")
[QUOTE=Hockey Monkey] 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. [/QUOTE] Its a packet with no sugar. Man, I havent had kool-aid in four years. This is going to be interesting. -Kris ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/4 "2008-08-07T01:04:36Z")
You must drink it. It’s for science. ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/5 "2008-08-07T01:07:54Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/6 "2008-08-07T02:09:44Z")
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_.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/7 "2008-08-07T02:23:30Z")
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](http://www.x-entertainment.com/kool-aid), old Kool-Aid still tastes good. Oh yeah! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/8 "2008-08-07T02:23:30Z")
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. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/9 "2008-08-07T02:25:14Z")
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!) ---
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/10 "2008-08-07T03:46:40Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] 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](http://www.x-entertainment.com/kool-aid), old Kool-Aid still tastes good. Oh yeah! [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/11 "2008-08-07T03:59:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/12 "2008-08-07T04:13:54Z")
It should be fine. I’m just now drinking a tall glass of four-year-old Kool-Aid and I’m ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/13 "2008-08-07T05:18:53Z")
[QUOTE=Slacker] It should be fine. I’m just now drinking a tall glass of four-year-old Kool-Aid and I’m [/QUOTE] I love the straight dope 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/14 "2008-08-07T16:37:09Z")
[QUOTE=Slacker] It should be fine. I’m just now drinking a tall glass of four-year-old Kool-Aid and I’m [/QUOTE] It was probably found in a box marked “People’s Temple stuff” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/15 "2008-08-07T16:40:15Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] Oh, it’ll be fine. When my aunt passed away… [/QUOTE] Boy, this started off reassuring. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/16 "2008-08-07T17:21:53Z")
Oh, for Og’s sake, the packets are like what, 25 cents a piece? Pitch it and go buy a fresh one. Yeesh. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/17 "2008-08-07T17:34:34Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] Oh, for Og’s sake, the packets are like what, 25 cents a piece? Pitch it and go buy a fresh one. [/QUOTE] But..but…but the SCIENCE! The world wants to know! After all, [this guy](http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000114.php) ate vintage Urkel-O’s from 1991. For science. (At least the milk wasn’t that old.) ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/18 "2008-08-07T18:38:33Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] Oh, for Og’s sake, the packets are like what, 25 cents a piece? Pitch it and go buy a fresh one. Yeesh. [/QUOTE] 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). ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/19 "2008-08-07T18:54:37Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] Oh, for Og’s sake, the packets are like what, 25 cents a piece? Pitch it and go buy a fresh one. Yeesh. [/QUOTE] I’d gladly try **20** year old Kool Aid if I discovered a packet of Apple flavor! ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/20 "2008-08-07T20:40:21Z")
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