Let’s drink a Kood-Aid
Mmmmmm red onion flavor
They discontinued it in the 70s and replaced it with red cabbage
You know kool-aid is pure…
Wut?
I was at a restaurant last night and they had some vintage signs on the walls. One was an ad for ketchup and it said “Guaranteed 100% Pure”… and I don’t even know what that means in terms of ketchup (or in this case Kool-Aid).
It’s that era’s “made with natural ingredients”. It means nothing, just marketing blabber.
Between 1910 and 1960 there was a weird fascination with the purity of things. Ivory soap (99% pure) is a hold over from that time. It was probably coded eugenics or some racist undercurrent among consumers.
Read Sinclair’s “The Jungle” and you’ll definitely understand the obsession with purity. It was about as regulated as “100% natural” is these days, but at least meant that your “100% pure beef” was less likely to be cut with sawdust or rat meat or something.
I need more stuff like this. Lemmier, please post more <3
The kid in the yellow striped shirt creeps me out.
You know Kool-Aid is pure
Pure what? It’s not pure anything. It’s mostly sugar and water, with some chemical flavorings.
Offhand I think “grape” is my least-favorite artificial flavor of all time, but lookie there-- that’s a rather pleasant photo!
Maybe because it sort of balances secondary colors of purple, green, and off-oranges.
Can you imagine how much photoshopping work it took to get that hue? And photoshop was probably only available in black and white at the time.
Photoshop was literally a photography shop back then, with some scissors, paint brushes, paste, and another camera.
