Growing up in Texas in the 1970s and 1980s, we ALL drank Kool-Aid too. And we drank stuff like Big Red and all sorts of odd fruit sodas like grape, strawberry, orange, etc…
I think the stereotype comes in with black adults continuing to have a preference for those sodas and for kool-aid instead of iced tea or Coke/Pepsi.
Black adults only (stereotypically) drink koolaid and fruit soda now? Well damn. Yeah, you keep that shit around for the kids, but we can go through gallons of sweet tea at family gatherings if we’re so inclined (the Brisk cans of tea are always the first to go at cookouts). And doesn’t Popeye’s sell sweet tea?
Now a black adult drinking milk. That’s odd.
But medically understandable. 74% of all y’all can’t digest it! (Lactose intolerance and allergy rate among African Americans is much higher than among Whites.)
My dad loves milk. Quality anecdata. All of my white friends always had so much milk in their houses. Whole milk, skim, and whatever else. Gallons of it kept in a dedicated fridge in the garage next to their dad’s beer. There isn’t enough cereal in the world to justify all that milk. You could maybe find a half gallon of 2% in my house growing up.
I’ll only drink it with peanut butter sandwiches. PB on both slices. It’s a necessity.
It warms my southern cockles to see someone here use “all y’all” appropriately.
Just don’t get caught outside during the harvest when those lady trucks are falling out of the trees…
What’s funny is that I’m black but I drink more cow milk than a calf. My white husband gets bubble gut at the mere thought of dairy.
Aren’t most people on the planet lactose intolerant to some degree?
Yes, if you’re counting heads worldwide. 65% before you start separating people into groups. But there are a bunch of mutants (like myself) who sprang from the loins in Europe and have an unusual ability to digest milk into adulthood. The British have the lowest rates of lactose intolerance (5-15%) and since they were such effective arseholes at oppressing the world, they spread this idea that we should be drinking moo-joose after infancy, including in the US. Much to the chagrin of Black Americans and Native Americans who are/were given free gov’ment milk that most of them can’t drink without major GI unpleasantness. (This is one reason why I’m so grrr that the dairy industry has the school lunch program by the nads…but that’s another rant for another thread…)
Racial/geographic breakdown of lactose intolerance: http://milk.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000661
I’ll lactose intolerant to a mildish degree, but damn if I’m going to forego a glass of milk when I’m eating a decadent cookie. A little farting never hurt anyone. 
As an American who as a kid drank plenty of Kool-Aid, you’re not the only one who doesn’t get it. I guess everything is racial now.
For that matter we honkies sure ate a lot of fried chicken and watermelon, too.
These sorts of stereotypes are pretty dumb. Hey, Bob’s a black guy, I sure bet he likes breathing AIR!
Yup, as been said many times here, I’ve known about it and heard about it for a long time. Kool-aid (especially grape), has joined the ranks of watermelon and fried chicken as being one of those things you don’t want to accuse black people of enjoying, otherwise you’ll be seen as racist.
Lesser ones in this category include a lot of Southern foods like (as mentioned a few times above): Okra, collard greens, chittlings, grits, catfish…
Talk about those foods and some people tend to put a racial stamp on it in their minds, automatically.
“Hey man, got any grape Kool Aid?”
Cue black jokes
Pretty sad, but it’s how it is.
I think the word you’re looking for there is “assume,” not “accuse.” If you assume that somebody must like something, just because of their race… yeah, that’s at least a little racist.
It was included in a whole bag of anti-AA items during the “Office Kwanzaa” episode in that youtube series (you know, that short black guy in a suit who said “boo” to the tall white woman in the elevator?)
I think “accuse” works too in these kinds of cases.
I’ve heard of Kool-Aid in terms of a racial stereotype, but not in regards drinking it; more in regards what you called it. Mrs. SMV and her (multi-racial) co-workers came up with a quiz called “Are You White Or Black?”, one of the questions of which is “When you were a kid, did you drink grape and cherry Kool-Aid, or purple and red?” (Others are “Does your dog live on a collar in the house or on a chain in the back yard?” and “Have you ever worn a long-sleeved sweatshirt with shorts?”)
This sounds more like GST (Gay Standard Time).
In my case, when I was meeting with Egyptians in Cairo, we assumed a “15-minute break” was on Egyptian time, which meant it was a 30-minute break. and we planned an 0830 start but worked our schedule for a 0900 start.
But back to the OP, I drink Cherry Kool-Aid all summer long (and have for the last 20 years) and am a 62-y.o. white guy and until this thread had never heard of this sterotype. You live and learn.
That one was probably taken from the “are you a Floridian?” quiz.
Juuust about choked on my coffee. Literally LOL’d 
My middle-class family ate plenty of this cuisine when I was a kid. We just thought of it as Southern food. But then, we stole a whole lotta white Southern culture from African-Americans.
(Except for NASCAR and country music; black folks are blameless there, we came up with those abominations our ownselves…)