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Let's drink a Kood-Aid

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[-] johny_joe_1975@discuss.online 1 points 23 hours ago

I need more stuff like this. Lemmier, please post more <3

[-] andrewth09@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago
[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

They discontinued it in the 70s and replaced it with red cabbage

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago
[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 27 points 5 days ago

You know kool-aid is pure…

Wut?

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 30 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 days ago

Only three ingredients! Sugar, water, purple.

[-] lars 2 points 4 days ago

Don’t pretend like you don’t know what flavor purple is 🧐

Same for orange, but luckily, it has a fruit named after it.

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).

[-] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 days ago

It’s that era’s “made with natural ingredients”. It means nothing, just marketing blabber.

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago

The kid in the yellow striped shirt creeps me out.

[-] Darkard@lemmy.world 44 points 5 days ago

I'm gonna fucking get you in your sleep buddy

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago

He has that look of, "Hey you're still alive. Time to fix that".

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

You know Kool-Aid is pure

Pure what? It's not pure anything. It's mostly sugar and water, with some chemical flavorings.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 14 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] lars 5 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Photoshop was literally a photography shop back then, with some scissors, paint brushes, paste, and another camera.

[-] Muscar@discuss.online -5 points 4 days ago

How are you this dumb? Do you seriously think Photoshop existed in the 50s?

[-] lars 5 points 4 days ago

Was Photoshop only available on the abacus back then, I forget

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

I know people with no teeth almost exclusively because of kool-aid.

[-] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

So sad we don't have ice box shelves anymore...

[-] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

"WTF is juice? Apple be green!"

this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2024
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