# Four year old Kool-Aid

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103>\
**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:** 4\
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**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, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/21 "2008-08-07T20:43:17Z")

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[QUOTE=Slacker]  
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).  
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And you had a Moon Pie for dessert, right?

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**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/22 "2008-08-07T20:46:14Z")

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Drink it! What are you, a girl or something?

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**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, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/23 "2008-08-07T20:51:36Z")

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[QUOTE=Tom Tildrum]  
What would possibly have gone wrong with it?  
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Well…

Presumably, kool-aid is food. Food, generally, spoils after many years. Even that which is packaged to prevent spoiling, still can undergo chemical reactions which ruin its taste after a long period of time.

So there are at least two things that could have possibly gone wrong with it right there.

FTR I haven’t had a chance to actually make the stuff yet, sorry to not have reported in yet.

-FrL-

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-kool-aid/459103/24 "2008-08-07T21:06:59Z")

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Just use hot water to make it. In fact, I find that using hot water to make regular Kool Aid is best, because it disolves better. Then just put it in the fridge for a few hours.

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