Thanks to the whole two of you who sent in egg pictures! I kid, I know it was a late request. The R2 egg was created by a reader named Anthony, and I've definitely done the same thing to eggs in the past. "Wanda Waddle," the blue beauty on the right, comes from Kristin. Big bonus points for using plastic googly eyes.
When you're done celebrating GAWD or waiting for your friends who celebrate GAWD to finish celebrating GAWD, get down with this survey: What's your favorite Kool-Aid flavor of all time? I told you...I'm on a kick.
REPLIES: 114 comments
first post!!! sadly though, my favorite flavor is boring old strawberry. yep. plain jane eh? KICK ASS.
Chestnuts roasted by shean-o @ 03/27/2005 12:02 PM EST
Second post, and my favourite Kool-Aid has to be cherry. Anyway, I WOULD'VE sent in an egg, but I have no egg colouring shit, except for a sharpie. Hey Matt, whatever happend to that store that sold food long forgotten, (the one you bought the ten year old Jell-o at)? I wish I had a store like that.
Chestnuts roasted by Well @ 03/27/2005 12:16 PM EST
Wow, i forgot about this one. Thanks for mentioning the all mighty purplesaurus rex...always my favorite. I remember being quite addicted to the heavenly frozen variety
Chestnuts roasted by the dark soldia @ 03/27/2005 12:17 PM EST
So tell me, when is Shark Week exactly?
Happy Easter!
Chestnuts roasted by ANdrew @ 03/27/2005 12:18 PM EST
Thanks for clueing us in on the ecto cooler/screaming tangerine name swap. I know that was like a year ago, but thanks.
Chestnuts roasted by naturekid @ 03/27/2005 12:21 PM EST
Pics sent. Enjoy!
Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 03/27/2005 12:25 PM EST
woo hoo, I've finnaly found time to catch up, and I'm even rewarded with a new article...man am I spoiled. My fav koolaid is lime..I dunno why, I just like green sturff.
Chestnuts roasted by brandon @ 03/27/2005 12:57 PM EST
Kool-aid kicks major ass but who could forget Freshie drink mix, with the little kids on the cover licking their lips, well thats as i remember it. I'm sure no one will remember, because it was a canadian company from the 60's, my dad had saved up packages of it lol.
My favorite Kool-aid flavour is cherry.
Chestnuts roasted by Hayley @ 03/27/2005 01:36 PM EST
Kool-aid articles were among the first things I read here at X-E and this one is every bit as good.
Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 03/27/2005 01:45 PM EST
Great Bluedini. favorite blue flavor(Though blue lemonade's a close second) probably the first to use that color changing powder,plus the fact that it's a octopi magician, which seems like a random choice, but it made for an interesting commercial. I found it weird though that the octopus was a cartoon in the kool-aid stuff store spot then appeared in his own commercial as a puppet with a human face. at least it lasted a few more years as a kool-aid blast flavor.(do they still make those?)
Chestnuts roasted by cheaptrick @ 03/27/2005 01:54 PM EST
I think he's still available as a plastic-bottled Kool-Aid. (Are those Blasts or Bursts?)
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 03/27/2005 01:57 PM EST
yeah, i think bursts were the real name. I never seem to bother with those store sections anymore.
Chestnuts roasted by cheaptrick @ 03/27/2005 02:12 PM EST
I loved sharkleberry! Kick ass flavour, man. Let's see, what else? All the old ones you can't get anymore... purplesaurus rex, the blue one they had around '90 (i think it may have just been an early blue lemonade, i don't know), that black halloween one, and that really really red one that my mother always absolutely refused to buy because if I dropped it on the carpet she'd cut off my fingers. I think it had a dinosaur on it too or something. Anyway, that's my kool-aid, sigh, meeeeemories.
Chestnuts roasted by Road Block @ 03/27/2005 02:18 PM EST
I just read the article and realized the blue one was berry blue. Damn, I loved that Windex poser.
Chestnuts roasted by Road Block @ 03/27/2005 02:22 PM EST
Black Cherry or Orange. Big Berry Blue fan when it was out.
There used to be kool-aid races in our house to see who'd be the one to finish the current pitcher and select the next flavor.
Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 03/27/2005 02:24 PM EST
Favorite Kool-Aid flavor? Definitely Ice Cool Arctic Green Apple. It makes my mouth feel like I just brushed my teeth...with Kool-Aid. Has anyone heard or seen anything about there being a Mort The Dead Teenager Movie being made?
Chestnuts roasted by Jerkface @ 03/27/2005 02:25 PM EST
Kool-aid burst are still avialable at a local gas station here, they sell them in singles and over priced.
Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 03/27/2005 02:45 PM EST
Do you EVER get relief from the mush stuffing detail?
Fav flav would be Strawberry, followed pretty closely by Cherry. Reading the Kool-Aid FAQ reminds me of those bygone days when we thought that mixing hard liquor into any flavor of Kool-Aid made an delicious and even sophisticated cocktail. We were simple and naive back then...
Awesome that E. Claire seems to have more interest in the Doc Ock egg than the frilly pinky girlie one. The R2 and Wanda eggs are cool too.
Happy Easter, all. My churchiness was limited to watching four hours of "Jesus of Nazareth", and that only started because the tv guide told me the dude from Deadwood played Judas.
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 03/27/2005 04:08 PM EST
Three articles in a week? It's almost like the good old days! Happy Easter, all!
Chestnuts roasted by WP @ 03/27/2005 04:20 PM EST
Gawd rawks! Gawd rolls! Gawd does the flying drumset better than Tommy Lee!
I had friends in town last night, so we went out and closed a bar down, it was killer (duck?) Then I just stayed up all night, since I had to be at church at 5:30 in the fucking morning. I had to play trombone in our church choir, which is kind of hard when you're still drunk from 3 hours before! 
It was a blast, I smoked a bowl so I was down with Jesus for the morning. Then I went to breakfast, came home and took a nap. Then I went to my grandma's house for ham. HAM!! It was delish. Now I'm home trying not to crash until bedtime. If I take a nap now, I'll be up all night again and that would be bad for work tomorrow.
Fave Kool-Aid? Hmmm...prob Berry Blue or Great Bludini. I also dig plain lime. The green is a big draw for something you put in your belly!
Happy Easter!
Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 03/27/2005 04:22 PM EST
Has Berry Blue been resurrected? Kool-aid has it on their site as a current flavor.
http://www.kraftfoods.com/koolaid/2001/ka_flavor_detail_berry_blue.html
Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 03/27/2005 04:55 PM EST
The "new" Berry Blue isn't really the same as the old one, even if it is, if that makes sense.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 03/27/2005 05:02 PM EST
Kool Aid was okay. I tried it a few times. The only powdered drink I ever really drank a lot of was Country Time. Is it just me or are most powdered drinks 99% sugar or aspartame?
Never tried the Sharkleberry Fin. From the picture you have, Matt, that strong pink color makes it look more like liquid bubble gum or a weak Pepto Bismol solution.
Chestnuts roasted by Bert Raccoon @ 03/27/2005 05:07 PM EST
It makes perfect sense Matt.
If this article had come a day earlier I would've been inspired to experiment dying easter eggs with kool-aid.
Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 03/27/2005 05:08 PM EST
When I was younger, I used to drink Kool-Aid like it was going out of style. Now, I can't stand any drink that comes in powder form (even Nestle Quik I only get in syrup form). Of course, my mom only gets the sugerfree diet flavors so that maybe why.
I guess my favorite flavors are the citrus ones or combination flavors like Sharkberry. One fruit flavors are too simple for me.
I had the mugs, but they were clear plastic. Never collected those points.
Cool pics. I really like the R2D2 one.
Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 03/27/2005 05:33 PM EST
OH NO YOU DIDN'T!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awwwwwww shhhhhiiittttt! You made a tribute to my most favorite flavor of Kool-Aid of all time! OK, now I absolutely must read this article before I make like Kingklask and- KABOOOM!!!!!!!!!!
(too late)
Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 03/27/2005 07:35 PM EST
Great article Matt!
As for my favorite flavor? That'd be plain old Orange. Why? For the last few years my doctor had me on a VERY strict diet with NO citric acid in it. But, now I'm off those meds, so I can have orange again! Sitting here drinking a glass of orange Kool-Aid right now. 
By the way Matt... Buy my old cookies!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6166231944&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT
Chestnuts roasted by Cuddles @ 03/27/2005 07:45 PM EST
After they stopped making Purplesaurus Rex I never drank anything grape flavored again. In my mind, it could never live up to the taste of that damned Kool-Aid. To this day... still no grape flavored drinks for me! (And that dinosaur was so CUTE! Sickeningly cute...)
Chestnuts roasted by Meg @ 03/27/2005 08:06 PM EST
I'm totally stoked to hear that Sharkleberry Fin has returned in the UK, cuz I'll be there in May. Maybe I'll come across it.
However, this article is not going to make up for the fact that you STILL haven't taken down your Christmas decorations.
Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 03/27/2005 08:07 PM EST
Ghoul-Aid is definitely the coolest one I've ever seen, but I've never actually had it. My parents didn't let me drink Kool-Aid when I was a kid. We were a "100%" family. 
I used to drink Squeeze-Its at friends houses, though. Those were really good.
Ghoul-Aid link http://www.x-entertainment.com/halloweencountdown/2003/october8/
Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 03/27/2005 08:45 PM EST
Favourite Kool-Aid is Orange-Pineapple. Can't find it anymore. When I was a kid, it was Apple Kool-Aid. Why did they discontinued that one
?
Chestnuts roasted by Liquidduck @ 03/27/2005 08:47 PM EST
Holy...Christ. Sharkleberry Fin is my all-time favorite Kool-Aid flavor. Oh, the countless sleepless nights I've spent pining for that unique Sharkleberry goodness. Actually, I can't even remember what it tasted like when it was around, but I do remember loving the shit. Speaking of egg-coloring and whatnot, anybody remember those Dudley brand coloring kits that included a large plastic egg into which one was supposed to place a real egg along with some dye and then shake vigorously? Whenever I would see a commercial for that thing, I would think to myself "Gee, I wonder how that works without smashing the egg to pieces". Well, I eventually ended up having my mom by it for me and guess what? The egg intended for colorization ended up being smashed to pieces. You won that round, Dudley...
Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 03/27/2005 09:48 PM EST
I love all things grape-flavored. The fact that Our Benefactor His Eightiness The Matt hates the stuff means "more for me! Wooo!"
Grape juice, grape soda, grape Gatorade, grape Kool-Aid...but not wine...I'm not the hooch type.
Chestnuts roasted by Monster Dog @ 03/27/2005 11:14 PM EST
Continuity error, why is this article labelled 929 when the delicious sticker article was 931? some future X-E fanatic will believe they're reading them in order, but will be sorely mistaken, and if they're OCD for chronology like I am then blood will be shed.
Chestnuts roasted by Brentantation @ 03/27/2005 11:41 PM EST
My wife and stepdaughters made it on the cover of the European Stars and Stripes this past Sunday. How cool is that?
Manimal, Em is adorable! Wish I could find those shrink wraps for the eggs, they only had the egg dye kits here.
Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz
Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 03/28/2005 12:31 AM EST
Tropical Punch! I could guzzle that stuff ALL DAY LONG.
Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 03/28/2005 01:31 AM EST
How can Kool Aid man go diving underwater? Wouldn't his life essence, the fruit punch, get diluted very quickly? Or is the so-called "Kool-Aid" inside him really a liquid that's like oil, so it doesn't mix with water?
We had a bunch of old Kool-Aid packets lying around our cupboard, but I think we tossed it out when we moved.
Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 03/28/2005 03:39 AM EST
RE-POST: "HAPPY EASTER!! We are about to dye eggs right now. I will send some pics later.
Erik, forgive me for not saying this sooner: CONGRATULATIONS! Keep us posted."
Erik, I didnt want you to miss my message.
In retrospect, I wish the eggs were clearer in the first picture. D'oh!
Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 03/28/2005 06:15 AM EST
My favorite three Kool-Aid flavors in order:
3) Sharkleberry Fin
2) Berry Blue
1) Purplesaurus Rex
And in homage to Purplesaurus Rex, if you want to be a pain in the butt to your bartender, ask for a cocktail containing 50% (actual) lemonade, 40% vodka, and 10% grape soda. The bar I frequent happens to carry grape soda. Anyway, it is a very reasonable alcoholic version of Purplesaurus Rex... Love the stuff!
Chestnuts roasted by jack burton @ 03/28/2005 07:49 AM EST
Fave flavor? Berry Blue or one that was green...don't remember the name. All I know is we used to drink shitloads of Kool Aid and then send away for stuff with the Kool Aid points- got a great frisbee and some other things. My brother kept all the points in a very professional briefcase, where we also kept Popsicle sticks that had points on 'em.
Hope everyone had a Happy Easter, in the countries where it was celebrated (I would KILL for a cadbury creme egg right about now- damn Korea).
Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 03/28/2005 09:31 AM EST
Great page. Proof once again that:
A) The Internet gives a voice to some of the wierdest hobbyists
B) I'm bound to find them and read everything about their hobby.
Chestnuts roasted by Bob Hoskins @ 03/28/2005 11:32 AM EST
Hey peeps, thought you might like to know I have in fact seen SHARKLEBERRY FIN KOOL AID in Salt Lake City, Utah. In December at the West Valley Harmons.
Chestnuts roasted by Underpants @ 03/28/2005 11:46 AM EST
My fave. is just plain old grape or red.
Chestnuts roasted by Shannon @ 03/28/2005 12:03 PM EST
One of my faves, before the diabetes, was that stuff they had for 4th of July one time. A red concoction that came with a packet of Pop Rocks- like substance that you mix in right before serving. Kool-Aid that sizzled and popped! Ain't technology grand?
Just in case Muppet baby missed it on the last page, here it is again:
Dancing Chocolate!
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/28/2005 12:19 PM EST
CHERRY CRACKER!
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 03/28/2005 12:32 PM EST
When my mom heard sharkleberry was going to stop being made a long time ago. She sent to every grocery store around our Dallas home. She spend around 90 bucks on it all and if you do the math it is alot of kool aid. We drank like kings for a long time and now we only have about 20 remaining packets, I have a couple pinned to my bulletin board as decoration. Thanks for the site it brought back memories.
Chestnuts roasted by LJ Beckman @ 03/28/2005 12:41 PM EST
Awww man... my friend and me once got a bag of puffy wise cheez doodles to snack on in high school sole because it came with a free pouch of sharkelberry, so it was like a whole meal.
But being the idiots we were we mixed it with salt by mistake. We each drank about a half a cup before we even realized what we did.
Chestnuts roasted by toddis @ 03/28/2005 01:07 PM EST
I'm sorry, but the most unstoppable liquid ever created in a factory by human beings is Mountain Berry Kool-Aid. Even as an adult, I know that if I found that stuff, I'd drink nearly a gallon a day. That, of course, could lead to some disastrous diabetic effects, but you only go around once!
Chestnuts roasted by Ian @ 03/28/2005 01:14 PM EST
That was a kick asssss artical, so much to read!!!! Thanks Matt.
Oh yeah! But who didnt live on kool-aid as a child! My fav were Orange and Sharkleberry fin fo sho!...I could really go for some kool-aid right about now!
Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 03/28/2005 01:30 PM EST
That R2-D2 egg is totally awesome!
Last year, in this dusty Mom and Pop grocery store, I bought a big can of Rockadile Red Kool-Aid that's almost 10 years old! I still have it, un-opened, and it watches me every night in my sleep plotting it's attack..
Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 03/28/2005 01:41 PM EST
Purplesaurus Rex: a grape-lemonade combo
I miss it so much I try to make my own with grape Kool-Aid crystals and frozen lemonade... it never works...
Chestnuts roasted by Nug @ 03/28/2005 02:12 PM EST
When I was a kid, I used to wonder what would happen if Kool Aid man tripped and fell over. do all his guts come spilling out, and does he die?
Chestnuts roasted by Gene @ 03/28/2005 02:33 PM EST
Check out the front page of my site this week. OOOO BURN!
Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 03/28/2005 03:58 PM EST
Ha ha! I heard mention of Squeezits...I haven't thought about them in years! Remember those flimsy plastic bottles they came in? And there was one flavor that was clear until you dropped in a tablet of color. It was their version of every manufacturer's need to create a "mystery flavor."
Chestnuts roasted by nddancer @ 03/28/2005 04:24 PM EST
My favorite was Great Bluedini...and I remember drinking it only in Burst form.
I don't know if that's still made, but I found out a few weeks ago that Berry Lemonade made by Jones Soda tastes EXACTLY like it!
Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 03/28/2005 04:44 PM EST
Like Matt and Well, my favorite is good old cherry.
I still drink Kool Aid occasionally in the summertime, and it always brings me back to hot summer afternoons when my sisters and friends and I would come back from the beach for a brief lunch before returning for a second round of sand and surf fun. Since we were usually covered with sand and salt, Mom would serve us Kool Aid and sandwiches on the back porch. Sometimes, we'd even get a home-made Kool Aid pop.
Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 03/28/2005 05:33 PM EST
All about the Purplesaurus Rex.
Apparently, two parts lemonade Kool-Aid to one part grape Kool-Aid makes a decent copy.
Chestnuts roasted by Jamie @ 03/28/2005 07:13 PM EST
I had an uncle who worked at a church and he'd always cut off the Kool Aid points from the big cans.. I had two or three Wacky Warehouse watches, that Kool Aid canteen thats on this page and a Sharkleberry Fin towel that I STILL HAVE AND USE every summer. The thing is extremely faded but still in one piece.
Chestnuts roasted by HibbityJib @ 03/28/2005 07:17 PM EST
Awesome. I don't remember sharkleberry fin, as I was not alive. But, I do remember when squeez-its were introduced, and Kool-Aid made their own, midgetized versions of them. Squeez-its no longer survive(at least not anywhere I've seen), but the Kool-Aid versions still litter convienience store coolers.
Chestnuts roasted by Tom No Like @ 03/28/2005 07:27 PM EST
i like the koolaid burst thingys that my mom always put in my lunch for school. i dont have a fav flav cuz all koolaid flavs rock.
Chestnuts roasted by JeSSi @ 03/28/2005 07:47 PM EST
Hey Matt, I was just digging around X-E on the Wayback Machine over on http://www.archive.org/web/web.php There's so many great great articles on here. Have you ever thought about (or has anyone ever approached you about) publishing a book of all your articles? In glorious color no less! Maybe break them down into a couple different volumes; Movies, Toys, etc.
Chestnuts roasted by Scott P @ 03/28/2005 10:48 PM EST
LOVE IT!
Chestnuts roasted by Holly M @ 03/28/2005 11:04 PM EST
Holy crap!
Yay for Sharkleberry Fin! I've got an old packet hanging around in a plastic bag in my room- sorry, but I don't think I could give it up. It's pretty beat up, but it looks almost exactly the same as that new one. I really hope this comes over to the states soon.
Favorite flavor? From the past, Purplesaurus Rex. Today? Ice Blue Raspberry Lemonade, hands down.
Also reminds me of the time we were in K-Mart and we got stuck behind the guy with 100 packets of Kool-Aid in the express lane. Did I tell you guys about this before?
Thanks, Matt, for all the current articles- it's almost like we've stepped back in time!
Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 03/28/2005 11:43 PM EST
Also reminds me of the time we were in K-Mart and we got stuck behind the guy with 100 packets of Kool-Aid in the express lane. Did I tell you guys about this before?
No, tell away.
Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 03/29/2005 01:08 AM EST
Wow, it's been a while.
My favourite of all time was Mountain Berry. Also know as Knott's Berry if you go to their farm and pay A LOT of money for Kool-Aid.
Of course, that is also the only flavour that literally made me sick fro both ends. I was a masochist.
AND IRRIDESCENT SHARKS REALLY ARE JUST CATFISH, MATT! FOR THAT MATTER, REALLY BIG, REALLY DUMB CATFISH!
But I used to keep them, and balas, and redtails, and blacktips, and blacks, and rainbows, and apollo sharks. Just for the name (also, apollos ate guppies and minnows like they were going out of style). Who cares if they are all really just barbs (AKA carp, AKA minnows).
Chestnuts roasted by Sean @ 03/29/2005 01:17 AM EST
I like that flavor that has the magician/hopeless gamble-aholic octopus on the front. I forget if they were trying to sell it to kids based on their love of magic or their everlasting desire to gamble illegally, so the octopus with cards could be either. All I know is it's greenish blue and tastes good.
Chestnuts roasted by Mangykid @ 03/29/2005 01:42 AM EST
Mountain Berry Punch is the definitive Kool Aid EVER!!! I so wish I could drink this once again. And not get poisoned for drinking an old packet.
Does anyone know what the shelf life is on a packet?
Chestnuts roasted by Heathtown @ 03/29/2005 04:02 AM EST
We don't have Kool Aid in the UK, where did you get yours from?!
Chestnuts roasted by Thom @ 03/29/2005 09:03 AM EST
maybe you do have it, but it's spelled "kool-aide" or something. extra letters seem to be a staple of your language. haha, just kidding.
my favorite flavor is tropical punch. other have come and gone, but tropical punch will always be there. plus, the packages smell really good after you empty them.
Chestnuts roasted by big jerm @ 03/29/2005 11:21 AM EST
How could I not mention the all-time favorite flavor of all kids the world over: The Suicide! Kool-Aid Suicide is the possibly the only thing on Earth that is close to the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster. Especially if you mix the packets with only enough sugar for only one packet. No sugar rush, but you might pucker yourself inside out. The sugar is just enough to keep you from becoming a singularity.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/29/2005 11:35 AM EST
kingklash- My friend has the best recipe for a pangalactic gargoblaster. I'm allowed to tell it to you, but you must swear to always toast to Nick every time you make one.
Here goes:
1 oz Spiced Rum
1 oz Gin
Tonic Water
1 oz Blue Curacao on top
Dash of bitters
Toast to Nick
The drink will glow in black light. I'd love to see it glow in the dark, which may soon be possible.
Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 03/29/2005 11:53 AM EST
Oh yes. I forot to mention garnishing it with a lemon, or a lime, or both. I prefer both.
Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 03/29/2005 11:54 AM EST
Kevin Munroe to Write/Direct New Animated TMNT Film
Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 03/29/2005 11:58 AM EST
Keep in mind, this drink will most likely blast you off to a places where you can find the ingredients to make a real pangalactic gargoblaster. Yep. It's that potent.
Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 03/29/2005 11:59 AM EST
And as with all drinks of that type, alcoholic and non- : drink, but very carefully.....
The Hitchhiker's Guide sells better than the Encyclopedia Galactica.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash? He's just some guy, you know.... @ 03/29/2005 12:36 PM EST
I know it's a little late, but I LOVED Rainbow Falls. I can still taste it after twenty years, but haven't seen it since then. I wish I could describe this wonderful taste but I'm having trouble with that. Petition Kraft to bring back our favorite flavours!
Chestnuts roasted by Myke @ 03/29/2005 12:46 PM EST
OK, this is the perfect opportunity to bring this up. When I said this to my husband he looked at me like I was crazy. A couple of months ago I was online and found a picture of an 80's-era packet of Kool-Aid and I had this completely guttoral reaction. That glass pitcher with the dripping condensation on the outside (so you know it's icy cold) and the fuity beverage inside. AAAHHHH!!! When I saw it it was like I was 6 again and I needed Kool-Aid in the worst way. Can anyone relate to this?
I was actually a huge fan of the Fruit-T's that came out a few years ago. I was sad when they discontinued those. The Strawberry Tea rocked.
As far as drinking old Kool-Aid, when my husband was a kid he was a big fan of watermelon Wyler's. When his mom couldn't find it at the store she wrote the company to ask about it and they sent her a huge box of packets. I can only imagine how old they are - 15 years maybe? We drink them all the time with no ill effects. We're coming down to the last of them though - finally. The cool thing is that it's clear so you can fake people out and tell them it's water. We've done it more than once.
Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 03/29/2005 01:35 PM EST
I used to dye my hair with Kool Aid when I was in high school and Sharkleberry Fin was my favorite color. I shit you not.
Chestnuts roasted by GirlGoneMad @ 03/29/2005 01:41 PM EST
Grape grape grape.
Chestnuts roasted by Jesse @ 03/29/2005 02:40 PM EST
So Matt, just curious, did your pee turn pink? The pinkness of the pitcher was amazing!
Chestnuts roasted by Mudge @ 03/29/2005 02:51 PM EST
My aunt gave all of her kids and me koolaid points for the free toy at the Jetson's movie. It was very small and looked nothing like what was promised, but it was still the most exciting movie ever because of it. Holding up the Jetson's car when it was on screen too was just magical.
Chestnuts roasted by Stephanie @ 03/29/2005 02:59 PM EST
Scott P: Thats funny you were on the wayback matchine, I do that all the time with this site, I missed out on some much stuff I really would love to read everything! I find it funny that the only pictures that seem to be missing are the ones of Matt.
Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 03/29/2005 03:09 PM EST
Ok, so its Hi-C, but there was no beating the Ectocooler!
Chestnuts roasted by WARDO @ 03/29/2005 04:56 PM EST
I am awaiting your blog post about the Times Square X-Wing.
Chestnuts roasted by Evin @ 03/29/2005 05:33 PM EST
What kind of premiums would be in the X-E Wacky Warehouse?
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash- 120,000 X-E points, 2,400 Woolong S&H. (45 Zeni in Canada) @ 03/29/2005 05:44 PM EST
I remember when Kool-Aid had a huge promotion with Nintendo around the time Super Mario Bros. 3 came out. They had Nintendo-themed games and puzzles on the back of those Kool-Aid Kooler boxes. Brings back memories of having SMB3 fruit snacks and a Kool-Aid Kooler at snack time on a school field trip to the park.
Oh and does anyone remember when Kool-Aid had a promo with KayBee Toys that when you turned in some Wacky Warehouse points, you got a free video that had all kinds of weird skits on it?
Chestnuts roasted by Luap @ 03/29/2005 11:45 PM EST
Okay Mars-
I'll tell, even though I already pretty much said it all. We were in K-mart a couple of years ago getting something for something... I don't remember, but I know we had some food from the frozen section. We got into the express lane- 10 items or less, I think, and the guy in front of us had a crapload of Kool-aid, plus some other stuff. I guess he thought that duplicates of one item counted as one or something. So because the flavors were different and he didn't separate them into groups, the girl at the register had to ring them all up individually. I counted them as they passed- one hundred packets of Kool-aid. In the express lane. Who does that? And it took forever to ring them up, too. It was crazy!
Not too interesting now, but boy was that a story when it happened!
Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 03/30/2005 12:29 AM EST
My favorite kool-aid flavor is lemonade. I find it kind of funny how so many people seem to love the cherry flavor yet to me it's the worst tasting flavor easily.
Chestnuts roasted by foshea@sequoits.com @ 03/30/2005 03:35 AM EST
ah, the "wacky wild kool-aid style" tape. yeah, you could get some interesting stuff at kaybee with kool-aid points such as hot wheels, gack splat!, and those little volley balls with frog legs(Wonder if anybody else remembers those). Anyway, the tape mainly consisted of overdubbed stock footage from kool-aid commercials and black and white movies, and some sketches including a cartoon rendition of stan frebergs take on day-o where the bongo player has an ear ache, and the one where dom deluise is taunted by a newspaper box. watched the tape who knows how many times 'til the vcr ate it.
Chestnuts roasted by cheaptrick @ 03/30/2005 12:17 PM EST
I have the tape. Will review someday. Positively absurd.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 03/30/2005 12:20 PM EST
Oh, yeah!
Chestnuts roasted by cheaptrick @ 03/30/2005 03:02 PM EST
during desert storm i used sharkeberry fin to make the desalinized water drinkable. i even made up a song about it:
sharkleberry fin x 5 (the first 2 fins are dragged out, the last 3 are short)
gonna fuckin' die x 5
ship me home in parts x 5
it's not very original, but it was humorous at the time.
Chestnuts roasted by arthur @ 03/30/2005 05:06 PM EST
i really like the bottle of chardonnay you have chilling behind the pitcher of kool-aid in the picture.
A+.
Chestnuts roasted by annz @ 03/30/2005 08:13 PM EST
As an aside, did anyone notice the name of the artist who did the cover for the activity book? Dan DeCarlo - longtime Archie Comics illustrator. Interesting...
Chestnuts roasted by faye valentine @ 03/31/2005 12:57 PM EST
hey matt, off topic slightly but, according to digitalbits.com, there's a 2 disc Jaws anniversary dvd coming out in July! You're gonna need a bigger boat!
Chestnuts roasted by faroniousd @ 03/31/2005 03:52 PM EST
Is Rockadile Red extinct too? I really want to make a pitcher of it but there's only one left in my kool-aid stash.
Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 03/31/2005 06:26 PM EST
Very cool IHAQ.
I actually just found the Wayback Machine recently. I'm still pretty addicted to it. And I only found X-E 2 years ago or so. I've still got a lot of catching up to do. Just read one on Matt's 1987 birthday party. "Is Jake Clairvoyant? YES!"
Chestnuts roasted by Scott P @ 03/31/2005 08:25 PM EST
How many people Wayback X-E? My X-E excitement really just started in October and I immediately went to the Wayback Machine to see what I've been missing. I just wish there was an easier way to read old articles... like with a simple archive feature on this site.
And the 1987 Birthday Party is also one of my favorites.
Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 03/31/2005 09:12 PM EST
Something else just occurred to me...
It's too bad that this comic wasn't published a few years earlier, because the letterer for Archie Comics in the early 1980s was none other than...
...Pierre Bernard (credited as Pierre Bernard Jr.), the graphic designer from Late Night with Conan O'Brien and the star of "Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage". The guy is at least ten years older than he looks (looks 30, actually in his early 40s).
Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 04/01/2005 03:27 AM EST
I felt Sharkleberry deserved 100 posts.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 04/01/2005 02:07 PM EST
I remember that, just before Sharkleberry Fin was released on the open market, there was a special form you could send in to be the first to try out the new flavor of Kool Aid. I got my first packet of Sharkleberry Fin for free!
Chestnuts roasted by The Jays @ 04/01/2005 04:00 PM EST
Woo! 1st post!
Oh...
Chestnuts roasted by Mechageo @ 04/02/2005 12:55 AM EST
Sharkleberry is my favorite flavor!! I thought it was strawberry/watermelon, but the banana would be that flavor I could never put my finger on.
I miss raspberry.
I have about 50 packets of watermelon-cherry that I bought a few summers ago when a local grocery store closed & sold everything @ 75% off. I would trade some for Sharkleberry.
Chestnuts roasted by Aimee @ 04/03/2005 01:04 AM EST
Anyone know if the kool-aid slushes (or Barbotines) are still being sold? I moved three or four years ago, and haven't seen them since. Though they had all but disapeared back in Michigan by that time as well. I still have a box full of them, for that super satisfied feeling of exclusive kool-aid drinking that Matt was talking about. But it breaks my heart to actually use any of them, knowing that it's bringing me ever closer to the end. Or IS it?
Chestnuts roasted by Joe999 @ 04/03/2005 03:56 PM EST
oh. my. sweet holy jeebus. my friend just sent me this link because.. well.. he and i have a history with sharkleberry fin. i think i love you people. this is a wonderful place. and as far as kool aid goes, since they've booted all the good flavors, black cherry is my favorite. still get it at least once a week because my friends come over and make it at two in the morning, usually staining my counter in the process. ooh kool aid. huzzah.
Chestnuts roasted by jinxy @ 04/04/2005 11:42 PM EST
I'm not sure if anybody reads this far down, but I'll try anyway. Sharkleberry Fin was one of my favorite kinds of kool-aid. I remember finding packets being sold at a duscount store about 4 years after it was discontinued and kept one of them (emptied). My sister claims that Starblast Strawberry, or somethng like that here in Canada, tastes like Sharkelberry, and its pretty close. I found packs of Incrediberry from the mid to late 90s at a store last summer. It was awesome. I may have to check it out again, at the very least so I could resell to eager kool-aid folks.
Chestnuts roasted by Czar Matthew @ 04/06/2005 04:39 PM EST
CRESCENT FRESH,
hey matt, it says on the kool-aid FAQ site that purplesaurus rex is still on sale in Canada. And if there are any Russians reading this you guys are still communist bastards because you are the only country with the Rasberry flavor!
BTW- 4:20 is a couple of days away! Matt, do an article about it! I know you rock out on 4:20 like evryone else here on Staten Island.
CRESSCENT FRESH
Chestnuts roasted by SKYNET1984 @ 04/07/2005 04:18 PM EST
FIRST POST!!!!!
Chestnuts roasted by MORON @ 04/09/2005 04:09 PM EST
WE REPEAT DO NOT SELL KOOL AID IN THE UK< AND NEVER HAVE DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to ebay, at 21, i will sample Kool Aid for the first time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chestnuts roasted by Nick SOAPDISH @ 04/10/2005 08:37 PM EST
Your website is the best for 1980 fans. Keep up the good work.
Chestnuts roasted by John Holmes @ 04/12/2005 06:36 PM EST
i thought i was the only one who remember and cherished sharkleberry fin. you made my day big time. now if you can find and review great bluedini, the tasty ass and i believe first ever color changing kool-aid, i'll bear you many fine, strong children. keep up the good work.
Chestnuts roasted by lizziebean @ 04/16/2005 01:36 AM EST
I've got a container filled with old flavours, including the great bluedini, purplesaurus rex and *gasp* berry blue.
Does this mean I'm rich? Or just that my cupboard smells fruity?
Bidding starts at $50 XD
Chestnuts roasted by Pork @ 04/16/2005 08:51 AM EST
You know, I remember the sharkleberry fin over a friend's house...
which remind me...
Have you ever been to a friend's house to eat and the food just tastes no good?
The macaroni is soggy, the peas... all mushed... and the chicken... don't get me started on the chicken...
love uterus
Chestnuts roasted by Sloppy Sebastian @ 04/17/2005 11:07 PM EST
who keeps typing this...
uterus? do you even know what that means?
this is a messageboard for serious stuff.. not a joke for you to ha ha
Chestnuts roasted by Sloppy sucks @ 04/17/2005 11:14 PM EST
Merry Easter! And what better way to celebrate than with the 
