Matt at X-Entertainment has a fun paean to Berry Blue Kool-Aid.
I have no idea how this stuff tastes, but it's the coolest bluest color I've ever seen. He also reports that there's an urban legend which may or may not be true about the flavor getting yanked off the market because it looked too similar to windshield-wiper fluid, and would somehow confuse dumb kids into drinking poison by mistake.
Matt imagines a conversation going something like this:
Mary: My kid drank windshield wiper fluid. I'm suing you.
Kool-Aid Man: How is that my fault?
Mary: Windshield wiper fluid looks just like Berry Blue Kool-Aid.
Kool-Aid Man: Where do you keep your windshield wiper fluid?
Mary: In a pitcher, next to the Kool-Aid.
6 comments:
Berry Blue Kool-Aid was awesome, but it did, indeed, look EXACTLY like windshield wiper fluid. I can sorta see it being pulled for that reason, I guess, because a little kid (3 or 4 years old) wouldn't necessarily put 2 and 2 together and realize that Kool-aid wsn't kept in the garage. But doesn't wiper fluid have a childproof cap?
Anyway, yeah. Berry Blue was good. Not nearly as good as Purplesaurus Rex (I'll never understand why they stopped making that), but good.
If anyone remembers this, it is bound to be yuor or your readers. Green Apple Koolaid. I loved it so much, and it was only around for a very little while. I was so sad when it disappeared, and now no one else even remembers it.
Oh my god pos, I did the same thing. The neighbor kids turned me on to straight Kool Aid powder from the canister. I also remember a scandal where the same neighbor kids gossiped that me and my brother were rich, because our mom bought the individual packets instead of the canister. It was only because us kids couldn't agree on a flavor, so our mom would let us take turns choosing the flavor each pitcher. Kids can be so cruel.
Also, my boyfriend in high school insisted on only drinking Berry Blue Kool Aid.
Seriously, I went to high school who DID accidently drink windshield wiper fluid that his brother had poured into a old milk jug. He mistakenly drank it thinking it was some of that awful juice drink that comes in a wide variety of colors in milk jugs, typically sold in sketchy mini-marts and dusty gas stations. Or in small jugs and called mini-hugs or something. Anyway, he realized with the first swill and was poison controlled or something... he was in school two days later.
I remember thinking my sister was crazy when, while I was visiting her house for a few days and her kid was about 3 years old or so, she warned me not to leave the nail polish remover out on the table because the kid would think it was "pop" (My sister has lived in Minnesota since she got married.) I have never seen soda sold in a small, opaque bottle, nor can I imagine one could get that stuff even close to their face without being grossed out by the smell. And even then, if the kid did manage to get that bottle open somehow, that stuff tastes disgusting (I've never drank polish remover directly, but I have ended up with my fingers in my mouth soon after using the stuff, and it tastes nasty) and I doubt the kid would proceed to swallow it from then.
Anyway, something that's annoyed me for years.
That quote about keeping the windshield cleaner next to the kool-aid made me laugh out loud.
I saw a story once about someone who drank windshield washer fluid because they thought it would get them drunk. Instead they died. They drank something like 2 or 3 gallons and they lived a few hundred miles from a hospital. So, moral of the story...windshield washer fluid will not make you drunk.
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