Anybody remember? 
It’s way before my time, but I remember my dad referring to it, and I have the Li’l Abner Dailies through 1945.
You mean the stuff produced by Hairless Joe and Lonesome Polecat? Sure.
One of my favorite story lines was when one of the dinosaurs that lived around their cave fell into the vat and became completely petrified. A paleontologist who just happened to be passing by was so impressed by the realism of the statue that he commissioned Joe and Polecat to make more for display in his museum. So they assiduously began tossing in their companions and made tons of money. Finally the paleontologist commissioned scuptures of cavemen; the sketch he showed them looked just like themselves. So the two buddies began plotting to throw each other in. Polecat managed to get the better of Joe, and sold the statue to the museum. The museum had a special grand opening to show all the statues, at which the master sculptor Polecat was the guest of honor. Unfortunately, the day was so hot it un-petrified all the dinosaurs plus Joe, which caused a bit of a commotion, not to mention some severe bruising to Polecat’s noggin when Joe got hold of him.
Then there was the time Joe Btfsplk fell into the Valley of the Shmoon…
L’il Abner was in “reruns” during my youth (NY Daily News in the '70s, IIRC), but I knew it anyway: my old man referred to any rotgut as Kickapoo Joy Juice.
There’s also a soft drink by the same name, made in, I think, Missouri? Saw it all over the place in Iraq and Afghanistan, and, for some reason, Singapore. Sort of like Mountain Dew mixed with Mello Yello.
Ah, yes, i always had sympathy for him, as I felt i was much the same.
I may be one of the few Dopers old enough to remember reading the originals. One of my favorite strips. Daisey Mae was cute, but Moonbeam Mcswine was my heartthrob.
My second favorite strip was Smokey Stover. Foo!
I liked the Shmoos. They were like little bowling pins that loved to serve people.
As a young lad, I used to get a Kickapoo Joy Juice every time we stopped at Booger Hollowon the way to Dogpatch.
“Kickapoo Joy Juice” was what we 17 to 21 - year-olds (in Montana in the ‘80s) called the vile drink you made by mixing whatever liquor you could steal from your various parents’ liquor cabinets with fruit punch. Sometimes this was mixed in a clean, galvanized garbage can, depending on how big the party was. These parties (keggers) always also featured a keg of beer, and usually were held out in the quarry or a clearing in the woods. I had no idea where the name “Kickapoo Joy Juice” came from; I doubt any of us did.
Still available in Singapore - also Malaysia.
With a name like “Joy Juice” I HAD to try it as soon as I saw it…the shame is everyone here just refers to it as Kickapoo.
Pronounced Ki - ka - po, too. Silly Singaporeans just don’t know how to have fun.
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I also found some at a store in the San Fransisco bay area. Don’t remember which one, though.
As mentioned here and in at least one other thread, Kickapoo Joy Juice was produced commercially for a while. I remember it at Dogpatch USA and perhaps some other places in Arkansas. It was pretty good stuff, but I always thought it was just Mountain Dew – also a big seller in Arkansas – repackaged. Others say it was different.
I used to get it as a kid in Memphis in the 60s. I thought it was a precurser to Mountain Dew, since I don’t remember seeing Kickapoo Joy Juice after Mountain Dew came out. I remember going to Dogpatch USA, too.
I used to get it as a kid in the 60’s in Western PA. It was a lot like Sundrop Golden Cola and the cartons were decorated with pictures of 'Lil Abner characters. I found Daisy Mae curiously stimulating.
You should’ve been at Dogpatch back when it was going. Once the women were safely ensconsed at the quilting demonstration, the men got themselves some Kickapoo Joy Juice and went to check out Daisy Mae. Good times.
I grew up in a town called Kickapoo and I’ve never heard of the stuff.
Where was that?
Not surpristing, as the Kickapoo were an Indian tribe of pretty fierce warriors. I don’t think they ever drank the Joy Juice though. Or, maybe that was what made them so fierce.
Illinois… it’s right here:
To be fair I grew up about a mile away from there. Also, while the town was called Kickapoo, the mailing address was actually “Edwards”.