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Deep-Fried Kool-Aid Balls the Latest Taste Sensation

Lauri Apple · 06/19/11 01:35PM

Years from now, when we're sitting in our old-people rocking chairs and fondly reminiscing about the memes of our youth, we'll be able to remember this weekend as the moment when Kool-Aid balls entered our national consciousness—shaping our eating habits for decades to come.

Kool Aid Wants Hispanic People Drinking Nothing But Kool Aid

Hamilton Nolan · 05/27/11 10:25AM

For too long, Hispanic Americans have been forced to tolerate a world in which artificial food products were not advertised to them with satisfactory ferocity. No longer. You Spanish-speakin' people want some dang Kool Aid? We gotcher Kool Aid!

The Monkees' Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Daniel Barnum-Swett · 03/24/10 10:45AM

The Monkees are a little too happy to be in the desert. Nominally shilling Kool-Aid, the band sings the drink's praises between apparitions of sugar-crazed children and Bugs Bunny's cameo mirage. Amidst the madness, one wonders, where is Peter Tork?!

Linden Lab wants you to drink the Kool-Aid — literally

dtweney · 01/26/07 07:06PM

"Drinking the Kool-Aid" is what Silicon Valley people say when they want to refer to an unquestioning acceptance of a particular corporate philosophy. It's used humorously, which is strange given that there are plenty of people in the Bay Area who remember first-hand just how that expression got started. So how appropriate is it that Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life, was passing out free packets of Kool-Aid at a networking mixer called SF Beta here in San Francisco last night? On the back of each packet: "Come drink the Second Life Kool-Aid! Linden Lab is hiring!"