Koolade-without adding sugar?

[enviedlady11]

Mmmm, I love me some sugared-up Kool Aid! Cherry and lime....

[heatherakc]

Kool Aid Tip #27...

When I taught High School, the kids used to "dye" their hair with Kool Aid. The loveliest blue and green shades.

[starry]

heatherakc said:

Kool Aid Tip #27...

When I taught High School, the kids used to dye their hair with Kool Aid. The loveliest blue and green shades.

So true!!! My friends and I did it at summer camp in 1981....works great on blonde hair, I had pinkish hair and my friend was green. Our parents were a little shocked when they the picked us up at the end of the week . Plus we ruined our sheets....lol.

edit: another interesting tip: some people use lemon koolaid (with out sugar) as a toilet bowl cleaner. Sprinkle it in the bowl, let it sit a spell, scrub and flush. I just brought this thread right to the gutter...lol.

[marksbird]

starry said:

I just brought this thread right to the gutter...lol.

I will never look at lemon Kool-Aid the same way again!! ;D

[Glamour Tiger Baby Junkie]

starry said:

heatherakc said:

edit: another interesting tip: some people use lemon koolaid (with out sugar) as a toilet bowl cleaner. Sprinkle it in the bowl, let it sit a spell, scrub and flush. I just brought this thread right to the gutter...lol.

and I bought the lemon-flavored one! ewwww ;D

I remember the hair color story more than actually drinking this.

I'm not a big splenda fan, though I'd rather use it then add an entire cup of sugar as suggested.

either way-sour or sweet, it sounds like my eyes are going to bug out when I try some-

[ivyagogo]

You people never cease to amaze me. What a wealth of knowledge we are!

[Attention Whore]

I'm always suprised what y'all didn't know about koolaid. Ok so who remembers wylers? (that was the po man's koolaid...lol)


Koolaid was good for:

Hair dye...especially black cherry
clothing dye. black cherry, the blue one, grape and lime very good on cotton t-shirts
I knew about the lemon one and cleaning toilets...(I grew up in the projects, how could I NOT know??)

we made our own playdough using flour/water/salt /cheap ass wylers....


-BOS

[sueb1863]

When I was a kid, as a treat our mom would sometimes sprinkle flavored powdered Jell-O on vanilla ice cream. Very yummy! We tried it once with Kool-Aid, though, but since it wasn't sweetened...bleh!

Fun Movie Fax: The oft-changing Horse of a Different Color in the 1939 classic 'The Wizard of Oz' was colored with flavored powdered Jell-O. The biggest problem was that the horses (six different ones, all white before the Jell-O treatment) had a habit of licking much of the Jell-O off between shots. ;D

[Electric Gypsy]

babesofsteel said:

I'm always suprised what y'all didn't know about koolaid. Ok so who remembers wylers? (that was the po man's koolaid...lol)

-BOS

I remember Wylers! I grew up poor. ;D

To be honest, it's been so long since I've had Kool Aid, that I don't even remember my favorite flavor. But you must always add plenty of sugar. Or Splenda, as the case may be.

[ultimatemind]

Remember the Jello cakes? My mom made them all the time. Just poke holes in the top of a white cake with a fork, pour any flavored jello over it, let it set then frost it with Cool Whip. Perfect summer treat.

I remember Wyler's too, I think we had that just as much as Koolaid.

Anyone ever hear of Schwan's? They may have been a midwestern thing, they came to your house with a freezer truck & you could buy frozen pizza, ice cream, burgers, fruit etc. They also had drink concentrates that were a kind of like Koolaid, only a little thicker & sugarier. You could buy it by the jug & just add water. They're still around, I see their trucks occasionally.