Let’s drink a Kood-Aid

35 points

Mmmmmm red onion flavor

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13 points

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

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10 points

Typical.

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28 points

You know kool-aid is pure…

Wut?

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30 points

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.

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15 points

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.

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16 points

Only three ingredients! Sugar, water, purple.

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3 points

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

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

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9 points

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).

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14 points

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

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27 points

The kid in the yellow striped shirt creeps me out.

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45 points

I’m gonna fucking get you in your sleep buddy

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23 points

He has that look of, “Hey you’re still alive. Time to fix that”.

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14 points

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.

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6 points

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.

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6 points

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

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-4 points

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

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6 points

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

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11 points

You know Kool-Aid is pure

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

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2 points

and color.

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Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc.

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For sharing images of vintage magazine ads, fliers, promos, etc.

We’re going to play it pretty loose with timeframe here so please don’t get offended anyone :)

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