Kool-Aid flavor.
Wikipedia (and most other sources I found on Google) says it was grape.
runs far, far away
It was grape.
Short answer: No.
Long answer: It might’ve been, at one point, but let it go.
Oy! I hope he was joking with that post.
Bitter Almond. Mm!
Grape Tang was what they used to poison all the eyewitness to the fake moon landing. Duh.
The hyphenated one the version that they still have on the sign at the JelSert corporate headquarters that’s down the street from where I grew up.
I figured the long answer gave me cover. Let it go? Okay, after this, my first indulgence with the multiple quote buttons.
Ooooh, cool!
I say we all save this thread URL, and link to it every time.
I did not know that.
Seriously. Maybe my memory’s going, but I’ve been around awhile, and I don’t recall ever hearing that it was really Flavor-Aid.
It doesn’t have a flavor, it simply aids other flavors kind of like Hamburger Helper doesn’t have any hamburger in it. Most people flavor it by adding some Gatorade which aids gators although Kool-aid can be a used in a pinch.
Maybe they were practicing for their comet ride.
No, Fla-vor-aid is typically the second thing to be pointed out after someone says it was Flavor-Aid.
It was also unsweetened, and they shot people who’d even drank the stuff (many of whom were forced to do it at gunpoint), so its not really accurate to say that this was something that folks did voluntarily because they’d swallowed Jim Jones’ nuttery whole heartedly, or that the drink was what killed them all.
A helpful hint: the expression “Drink the Kool-Aid” is an insult.
When others reply: “It was Flavor-Aid,” they are insulting you back.
I was watching that special last night, as well. Very interesting stuff. Then my wife casually mentions that she has a signed thank-you letter from Jim Jones somewhere in the house from her days working in San Francisco with an employment outfit that found jobs for people down on their luck. Holy crap! Is this worth anything?
Those bastards!
Eh, according to the documentary I watched last night, most of the people who wanted to leave left with the senator right before it all went down. A few others escaped while it was happening. A few were shot, yes. Most drank voluntarily. The last audio from the tragedy has one woman voicing dissent, but a couple people shout her down and then she shuts up after Jones says the senator is dead.
Certainly everybody drank voluntarily (as voluntarily as implicit pressure from your cult can be) during the test runs, so it kind of negates the point that a few wanted out after Jim went completely off the handle later; they thought they were drinking deadly poison the other times.
No. Send it to me. I’ll see to it that it is properly disposed of.
It was Flavor-Aid.
Homer: Hello, is this President Clinton? Good! I figured if anyone knew where to get some Tang, it’d be you. …Shut up!
This actually fits. More specifically than being an insult, it’s an expression about trusting what ‘they’ tell you.
‘They’ told us it was Kool-aid. If you accept that it was Kool-aid, then you’ve already drunk your fill. 