re: #112 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I drank the Kool-Aid. No, literally. I was in the store today and saw the Kool-Aid display. I had forgotten that the stuff existed as a real product. It occurred to me that I have not drunk any in at least 30 years, not since I was in the National Guard, and I have never bought any with my own money in my entire life. I bought two packets, Tropical Punch type, and mixed one of them up tonight. The stuff isn’t bad, but with sugar the calorie count is astronomical. I can see how it will disguise the taste of potassium cyanide though.

they did not use Kool-Aid at Jonestown. From my novel, Research.

*Kool-Aid is a trademark of Kraft foods. To say that Kraft had nothing to do with Jim Jones and Jonestown is an understatement. The inhabitants of Jonesstown drank their potassium cyanide in Flavor-Aid, an obscure competitor to the more popular drink. Since most reporters had consumed Kool-Aid as children, the more popular drink got credit for the largest example of insanity in the modern world and was also blamed for the 700 plus deaths at Jonestown.

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