Jimmie Cole's List: Bet Technology Ever

• Well, Kool-Aid got its start right here in Hastings, Nebraska.
• This internationally known soft drink mix, now owned by Kraft Foods, actually started out as a liquid concentrate called Fruit Smack, invented by Edwin Perkins.
• This internationally known soft drink mix, now owned by Kraft Foods, actually started out as a liquid concentrate called Fruit Smack, invented by Edwin Perkins.
• Edwin Perkins was always fascinated by chemistry and enjoyed inventing things
• Nebraska around 1900, a young Perkins experimented with home made concoctions in his mother’s kitchen.
• a young Perkins experimented with home made concoctions in his mother’s kitchen.
• The popular powdered dessert came in six delicious flavors and was called Jell-O.

  • The idea started from him being introduced to jell-o
• Edwin sent away for a kit called “How to Become a Manufacturer.”
• Perkins graduated from high school, published a weekly newspaper, did job printing, served as postmaster
• set up a mail order business called “Perkins Products Co.”
• Another product that was proving to be popular was a concentrated drink mix called Fruit Smack
• Fruit Smack, like Jell-O, came in six delicious flavors.
• The product, which sold for 10¢ a packet, was first sold to wholesale grocery, candy and other suitable markets by mail order in six flavors
• ; strawberry, cherry, lemon-lime, grape, orange and raspberry.
• In 1929, Kool-Aid was distributed nation-wide to grocery stores by food brokers.

  • It gave families the oprtuninty to make their own drinks with out paying a high cost to do so
• By 1931, the demand for Kool-Aid was so strong, other items were dropped so Perkins could concentrate solely on Kool-Aid.
• He moved the entire production to Chicago for more efficient distribution, to be closer to supplies and to be able to expand even further if necessary.

  • It started to grow vastily
• During the Great Depression, Perkins cut the price in half to just 5¢ a packet, a “luxury” most families could afford.

  • Even tho the depression hit he still was a house hold favorite
• Perkins introduced off-shoots of Kool-Aid, including pie fillings and ice cream mixes.
• These products never really took off with the public. During World War II, fruit acid and dextrose rationing prevented any expansion.
• After the war, the demand for Kool-Aid was so great that Perkins had to expand the factory and by 1950, some 300 production workers produced nearly 1 million packets of Kool-Aid each day!

  • Kool-aid hit its high and was very successful
• In 1953, Perkins announced to his staff that he was selling Kool-Aid to General Foods.
• Within a year, the popular Smiling Face Pitcher was introduced in print advertisements.

  • The kool-aid man was born by General Foods
• Root Beer and Lemonade flavors were added to the original six flavors in 1955 and pre-sweetened Kool-Aid was developed in 1964 and redeveloped in 1970.
• Kraft Foods eventually acquired General Foods and became the new owners of Kool-Aid.

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• "Hey, Fruit Smack!" Doesn't quite have the same ring as, "Hey, Kool-Aid!"
• It began as a soft drink syrup offered through Edwin E. Perkins' mail-order business in Hastings,
• it was there that he first encountered Jell-O gelatin.
• Inspired by that treat, in 1927 Perkins decided to concentrate his syrup into a powder and rename it Kool-Ade Soft Drink Mix.
• While the Fruit Smack syrup was offered in cherry, grape, lemon, orange, root beer, and raspberry,
• Perkins swapped out lemon for lemon-lime and strawberry replaced root beer for the powdered Kool-Ade.

  • False, General Mills is the one that changed it

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• • This is one thing that makes the kool-aid brand bad or not well looked apon

• "drink the Kool-Aid," corporate-speak for immersing oneself in a cultlike culture.
• • These are all bad things on how kool-aid drinking can be bad or wrongfully taken if said
• Time Warner executives: "The AOL guys have got to stop drinking the Kool-Aid and get on the team."
• The Kool-Aid-cult connection was concocted, of course, after the 1978 tragedy in Guyana, where more than 900 followers of Jim Jones consumed a grape-flavored cocktail containing cyanide. It remains the largest modern-day mass suicide on record.
• "But it wasn't even Kool-Aid that was used," she insisted. She referred us to a 1978 Washington Post article citing "packets of unopened Flavor Aid" scattered in the dust in Guyana. Flavor Aid has been proudly manufactured since 1929 by the Jel Sert Co., which also makes My*T*Fine puddings, Pop-Ice frozen treats, and other fine food products.
• Fourteen-hundred miles away, Serphos's position was sweetened by Teresa Kreutzer-Hodson, curator of Nebraska's Hastings Museum, which hosts the world's only permanent Kool-Aid exhibit. "I'm thinking it has a kind of a bad association,"
• "But Jones didn't even use Kool-Aid -- it was [Flavor Aid]. The name Kool-Aid is like Kleenex -- people don't even think to use it properly."

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• Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Jonestown tragedy and 2008 marks the year when "drink the Kool-Aid" fully flowered as an attack cliche.
• Close to 1,000 followers of People's Temple founder Jim Jones were so deeply in his thrall that, upon his command, they drank a non-carbonated grape-flavored liquid lethally laced with cyanide.
• Ever since -- and particularly this year when applied to fervent supporters of Barack Obama -- to "drink the Kool-Aid" has come to mean being deeply in thrall of someone or something.
• "Contrary to popular belief, Kool-Aid had no part in the mass suicide at Jonestown: According to Mr. Dawson-Schmidt of the Kool-Aid UseNet group, cult leader Jim Jones and his followers drank grape-flavored Flavor-Aid. "It's the more generic brand," he claims, "and not as good."

  • Then why would hey put up every where that it was actually kool-aid?
• [Kool-Aid] was associated with the suicide and murder of 914 people in Guyana, in a jungle camp where madman Jim Jones ordered his followers to drink a grape-flavoured beverage laced with cyanide and sedatives.
• In fact, that drink wasn't Kool-Aid. It was a rival brand of concentrated powder, Flavor Aid, pink packets of which were found strewn on the ground long after the event.
• Kool-Aid could have gone happily along without being used as a synonym for blind loyalty. But this isn't a fair universe, and the phrase `drinking the Kool-Aid' shows no sign of disappearing."
• "The cyanide-treated beverage served at the Jonestown mass suicide in 1978 was a grape-flavored Kool-Aid imitator called Flavor-Aid,

  • Will the company ever get away from this term used by people in a cruel way
• but `drinking the Kool-Aid' has entered the political lexicon to mean going along with the program, whatever it is.

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• Kool-Aid itself was born in Hastings and reached maturity in Chicago.
• Born in Lewis, Iowa, on January 8, 1889, Edwin was the oldest son of David and Kizandra Perkins, whose families had migrated from eastern states in an earlier day.
• Kizzie’s father had once been a station agent at the Julesburg stage station on the Oregon Trail, and in 1893, the Perkins family sold their general store in Iowa and moved to a farm in Furnas County,
• By the end of the decade, the family traded the farm for a general store in the village of Hendley, and on January 1, 1900, they moved there so the children would be closer to schools.
• In his after-school hours, 11-year-old Edwin began clerking in the store, sometimes turning the revolving candy case so fast that the customers would have to call out, “Slow Down! Slow down!” so that they could make their selections of penny candy.
• It was called Jell-O, and it came in “Six Delicious Flavors.” Edwin was entranced with it and persuaded his father to carry it in the store. For the rest of his life, he recounted how the Six Delicious Flavors influenced his decision to get into the pre-packaged food business.

  • Jell-o was the spring board for the invention of kool-aid

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• SodaStream International Ltd (SODA.O)  is adding Kool-Aid powdered beverages to its lineup of drinks in an expanded  deal with Kraft Foods Inc KFT.O, sending its shares up 5 percent.

• SodaStream, which sells a system that lets consumers make carbonated drinks  at home, already had a deal with Kraft that let it sell Crystal Light and  Country Time drinks.
• Kool-Aid for SodaStream will be available in stores during the fourth quarter,
• "We're pleased with the early success of Crystal Light and Country Time and  believe that adding Kool-Aid will attract even more people to enjoy our flavors  with personally-made carbonation
• Doug Weekes, vice president, beverages, Kraft Foods, said in a statement.
• Doug Weekes, vice president, beverages, Kraft Foods, said in a statement.
• SodaStream, which sells its soda-making machines, flavors, carbon dioxide  refills and re-usable carbonation bottles around the world, launched in the  United States, the world's largest market for carbonated drinks, about a decade  ago.

• It first partnered with Kraft to make the U.S. company's branded flavors  available with its soda makers in January.

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• When Edwin Perkins was a lad, living in Hastings, Nebraska, he conducted chemical experiments in his mom's kitchen. Among his early products were various flavoring extracts and perfumes.
  
• In 1927, he figured out how to remove the liquid from the concentrate, leaving the familiar powder we know today as Kool-Aid®.
  
• The product was named Kool-Ade at first and later Perkins changed it to Kool-Aid®. Selling for 10 cents an envelope, until the Great Depression hit, Perkins dropped the price to a more affordable 5 cents per package
  
• The six original flavors were: raspberry, orange, strawberry, cherry, lemon-lime and grape. In 1955, lemonade and root beer flavors were added.
• Not surprisingly, Kool-Aid® is the official soft drink of Nebraska, where Perkins invented the sugary powder.
  
• More Kool-Aid® is consumed around July 4th than any other soft drink.
• The nutritional value of Kool-Aid® is more of a joke than a fun fact. Although it is popular nationwide, there is little nutritional value in

  Kool-Aid®.
• Kool-Aid® contains a whopping 10 mg of sodium. It's sugar-rich and contains artificial coloring in the form of food dye.
• Speaking of dye.if you'd like to change your hair to a fun color that smells delicious too, try dying it with Kool-Aid®. It's so easy a child can do it!
  

  • This is just weird but yet it is still helping people change the color of thier hair
• First, smear Vaseline on the skin surrounding hair and the ears, so that excess dye will wash off easily.
  

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