{"id":435,"date":"2010-05-15T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/05\/nebraska-discoveries-5-kool-aid.html"},"modified":"2012-05-20T19:32:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T00:32:28","slug":"nebraska-discoveries-5-kool-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/05\/nebraska-discoveries-5-kool-aid.html","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska Discoveries 14: Kool Aid!*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*Yes, you read that correctly!<\/p>\n<p>I introduced Kool-Aid to the kids recently. \u00a0I guess they&#8217;d had it before at birthday parties and stuff, but I never made it for the boys the good old fashioned way: the little packet, 1 cup of sugar (give or take) and 2 quarts of water (give or take.)<\/p>\n<p>It got me thinking (can you smell the smoke?) about Kool-Aid in general. \u00a0How much I grew up with it as a kid &#8212; there are dozens of pictures of me as a kid with Kool-Aid mustaches, and I tried to find one, but I couldn&#8217;t find one easily. \u00a0But I did find this picture from April 1977:<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/IEssS6LKwe_EOBbUeq06_A?feat=embedwebsite\"><img src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_yz59FVsseJY\/S-4HTDaTojI\/AAAAAAAA_vA\/azTkMfkeb9g\/s400\/2-17-2009_009.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: right;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/vollmerdp\/197704CaliforniaToHawaii?feat=embedwebsite\">1977 04 California-to-Hawaii<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>See? That&#8217;s how much I must have loved Kool-Aid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Or was it that my Mom made me so much Kool-Aid, she sent in 50 envelopes for a free t-shirt? I contemplated doing that with Mr. Bubble for my own boys&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I got to thinking about the history of Kool-Aid, and I happened across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kool-aiddays.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=90&amp;Itemid=161\">this website<\/a>. \u00a0Go about 2\/3 the way down the rather verbose history and you&#8217;ll see the breakthrough information&#8230;Edwin E. Perkins introduced Kool-Aid to the world from Hastings, Nebraska in the late 1920s.<\/p>\n<p>Well would you look at that? Kool-Aid was invented in Nebraska! \u00a0The city of Hastings is about 2 1\/2 hours west of where I am now. And look what else! In August there&#8217;s a Kool-Aid Days right there in Hastings! That sounds, um&#8230;INTERESTING. Not sure if I&#8217;d make the big trip west expressly for that, but I&#8217;ll stick it in my hip pocket if we&#8217;re desperately looking for something to do the weekend before school starts&#8230;but I&#8217;m guessing we won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"align: left; height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=grocontomaj0c-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=bpl&amp;asins=B000G32H3Y&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" align=\"left\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe>Back at the home front, I broke out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crateandbarrel.com\/family.aspx?c=180&amp;f=16532\">my two-quart pitcher<\/a> and whipped up some grape Kool-Aid for Timmy. He guzzled the first cup down so quickly! In fact, I had to chide him for gulping too loudly! &#8220;Glug, glug, glug!&#8221; Ha ha!<\/p>\n<p>That batch lasted about 2 days, and yesterday I made fruit punch and even poured some into two cups for popsicles. \u00a0I should try to find some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tovolo-Yellow-Groovy-Pop-Molds\/dp\/B000G32H3Y?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=grocontomaj0c-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\">legitimate molds<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=grocontomaj01-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000G32H3Y\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, but for now plastic cups and craft sticks are working just fine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I like the idea of my boys enjoying Kool-Aid. It&#8217;s cheap to make (20 cents for the packet, about 30 cents worth of sugar, the negligible cost for the water). So 2 quarts for less than the cost of 1 16 oz. soda or Gatorade. \u00a0Without the high fructose corn syrup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Yes, you read that correctly! I introduced Kool-Aid to the kids recently. \u00a0I guess they&#8217;d had it before at birthday parties and stuff, but I never made it for the boys the good old fashioned way: the little packet, 1 cup of sugar (give or take) and 2 quarts of water (give or take.) It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,68,249,4],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-71","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":814,"url":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/04\/my-easter-egg-plans.html","url_meta":{"origin":435,"position":0},"title":"My Easter Egg Plans","date":"06 April 12","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to Pinterest, and a GeekMom who actually tested it last weekend, I will be trying a new approach to dyeing Easter eggs: Kool-Aid! 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