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.

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 The Hispanic versions do not include Cherry or Berry Punch, and have instead Root Beer, Mango, Apple, Jamaica, Tamarindo, Tangerine, and Pineapple-Orange.

Jonestown suicide

Around 914 followers of Jim Jones committed cult suicide/murder by drinking and/or being forced to drink cyanide-laced grape Flavor Aid in 1978. 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.

External links

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

Notes

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