We don’t have this stuff where I live. I know it’s a drink, and I know in the commercial a big jug man busts through a wall and says _”Oh yeah!”_, but what kind of drink is it? Is it like a soda? I’ve got a feeling it comes in a powder, but that could be completely wrong. Also, I’ve heard the expression ‘to drink the kool-aid’, which I do not believe is a literal thing. I think it has some sort of double meaning, but I don’t know what it is. Help me you clever Americans!
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Kool-Aid is a powder you put in water to make a flavored drink. A knock off version of it called Flavor-Aid was famously mixed in with poison and used by a cult called The People’s Temple to commit mass suicide. To “drink the Kool-Aid” means to blindly accept anything told to you without thinking for yourself.
it’s a drink you make mixing fruit flavored powder in water in a pitcher. the phrase “drink the koolaid” means mindlessly following or believing in what an authority says, and it’s a reference to a cult mass suicide in guyana where participants drank poisoned kool aid. it’s called the jonestown massacre
Kool Aid is a brand powdered drink mix.
Drinking the Kool Aid means “buying in to an idea unequivocally” and refers to the [Jonestown Massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown)
It is a powder mixed with water to make a punch.
A cult called the People’s Temple used a kool-aid knockoff called flavor-aid to commit mass suicide. “Drinking the kool-aid” means accepting an unusual belief or set of beliefs to one’s own detriment.
Kool-Aid is a drink mix. It’s flavored sugar water.
“Drink the Kool-Aid” is an idiom referring to the Johnstown massacre where a cult of Americans moved to South America and all committed suicide (under threat of violence) by drinking poisoned Kool-Aid. It basically means to blindly do what you’re told or to consume biased/wrong information without critical thought.
this one gets dark, op: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid
It’s a powdered fruit flavored drink. You buy a pack of powder and add water (and sometimes sugar) to make it.
To “drink the kool ade” is to accept what someone tells you without questions, usually in the context of a group or cult leader. It’s a reference to the Jonestown Massacre, in which cult members drank (or forced each other to drink) a similar powder based drink that was poisoned in a mass suicide.
It’s a powdered drink mix. It’s not carbonated.
“Drink the Kool-Aid” means you’ve bought into something someone above you is trying to sell. Implications are the thing is false and/or you adhere with religious zeal.
The term comes from the Jonestown Massacre where hundreds of people drank poisoned Kool-Aid* at the demand of the cult leader.
(*I’m told it was some other brand of the same kind of thing, but such is the power of brand recognition.)
It’s a still sugary drink. Think of a fruit flavored soda without the carbonation and that should give you the picture. It comes in a powdered mix, either with the sugar already added in a tub or with just the flavor in a packet.
Drinking the kool-aid refers to the Jonestown massacre, when hundreds of American cult members in Guyana were killed by drinking a kool-aid knock off called “flavor-aid” which was laced with poison.
Kool-aid is a drink mix, so yeah a powder that is mixed with water. The original flavor is fruit punch, and it has become a generic name a la kleenex or band aids. The phrase comes from the Jonestown Massacre. Cult leader Jim Jones had moved his cult from the US to Guyana in South America. In ’78 a congressman down that way investigating the group was attacked and killed and Jones had his cult members kill themselves by drinking Flavor Aid, a Kool Ade type drink, laced with cyanide.
Thus the phrase indicating someone is blindly bought in to something despite its tremendous shortcomings or the obviously fraudulent people pushing it.
Yeah, it’s a powder. Comes either unsweetened in a little packet or sweetened in a plastic canister. You add the unsweetened packet, sugar and water into a pitcher and stir. The sweetened one you just add it to water. It’s just a sugary sweet drink, non carbonated that tastes like liquid candy.
There was a cult that poisoned all of it’s members using a powdered drink. It wasn’t actually kool aid, but another similar drink powder flavor aid. They are always associated with Kool aid though. So you don’t want to drink the Kool aid.
There’s also you are all up in the Kool aid and don’t know the flavor. It’s basically mind your own business
>where I live
Where?
>what kind of drink is it? Is it like a soda?
It’s a soft drink, but it’s not fizzy like soda.
>I’ve got a feeling it comes in a powder, but that could be completely wrong.
You’re correct. Flavored powder is mixed with water and sugar, somewhat like the British squash cordial.
>I’ve heard the expression ‘to drink the kool-aid’, which I do not believe is a literal thing. I think it has some sort of double meaning, but I don’t know what it is.
Drinking the Kool-Aid is a metaphor for accepting the ideas of others blindly and without question, which as others have said refers to the Jonestown massacre. Kool-Aid in the literal sense is a delicious and refreshing beverage, especially served over ice on a hot day.
>Help me you clever Americans!
I did my best.
Where are you from? You probably have the same concept, but most likely in concentrated liquid form with the sugar already added. You add water to the powder, add sugar, and get an overly sweetened drink. I don’t understand how this could be such an odd concept. It’s mostly a children’s drink, as adults should realistically be drinking water to hydrate. That much sugar is not good for you, and is just empty calories.