Flavor Aid

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Flavor Aid is a non-carbonated soft drink beverage made by Jel Sert, introduced in 1929. It is sold as a sweetened powdered concentrate drink mix, similar to Kool-Aid drink mix.

[edit] Flavors

Flavor Aid comes in the following flavors: Cherry, Raspberry, Grape, Berry Punch, Tropical Punch, Orange, Lemonade, Lemon-Lime, Strawberry and Kiwi-Watermelon.

Flavor Aid has also introduced several flavors that catered to the Hispanic population with bilingual packaging and various exotic flavors ^[1] The Hispanic versions do not include Cherry or Berry Punch, and have instead Root Beer, Mango, Apple, Jamaica, Tamarindo, Tangerine, and Pineapple-Orange.

[edit] Jonestown suicide

Main article: Jonestown

Around 914 followers of Jim Jones committed suicide or were murdered by drinking or allegedly being forced to drink cyanide-laced grape Flavor Aid in 1978.^[2] Erroneous references to the mass suicide, in combination with existing references to The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test of the Merry Pranksters, gave rise to the saying "Don't drink the Kool-Aid" as a reference to those who blindly follow an authority even if it leads to serious harm or death.

[edit] External links

• Jel Sert's Flavor-Aid page
• Jel Sert's Wyler's page
• www.koolaiduk.com supplying Flavor Aid Worldwide.

[edit] Notes

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