Welcome to X-Entertainment's brand new fruitalicious Kool-Aid Section -- your ever-updated guide to all things Kool-Aid! The drinks! The characters! The free crap you traded Kool-Aid points for! It's all here, and what isn't is on its way! Check back often for new updates -- we'll get to 'em all!
Why, you ask? Because I love Kool-Aid. I love everything about it. I love what it stands for. I love how it smells. I love how I remember making it myself as a kid, digging a plastic scooper through a tall can of blue sand and trying not to spill it all. I love thinking about being a fourteen-year-old hiding in the backyard, secretly attempting to turn my hair fire truck red with a mixing bowl full of flaming hot Kool-Aid. I love Sharkleberry Fin's pirate accent and Purplesaurus Rex's happy spots. There's not much I
don't love about Kool-Aid, and I think you'll agree after wading through the pages here that there was always more to the stuff than we ever gave the stuff credit for.
The list of current reviews is at the top right, and will grow whenever I get the hankering for a fast blast of fruity fun -- which I expect to happen twice, maybe three times a week. What you'll notice is that there's an even split between relatively recent flavors and very, very old flavors -- the latter being why I've created this section. You'll be seeing every classic (from Mountain Berry Punch to Rock-A-Dile Red) in the coming weeks and months, supplemented regularly with reviews of the less interesting but still yummy current crop. Don't bother asking if a particular flavor will be reviewed, because as you can see...
I've got them all! Well, almost. I've spent the better part of the past year collecting as many old Kool-Aid packets as possible, and while the returns on this particular hobby aren't terrific, I've managed to snag all of the good ones. Course, I don't have
every flavor, much less every
variation of each flavor, so if you've got any old Kool-Aid laying around that you'd be willing to part with, do the world a favor and
e-mail me. Readers nice enough to donate obscure, excellent materials have made my years spent doing X-Entertainment a heck of a lot easier, so it's way appreciated.
What else? Well, check underneath the list of flavor reviews for MORE reviews, this time of the various toys, trinkets and doodads kids used to pick up by sending envelopes full of Kool-Aid Points to the Wacky Warehouse -- everything from branded remote control cars to fanny packs. And while we're at it, check out another new section at X-E, the
Cereal Prize Project! Now go, go read about Kool-Aid and be merry.
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Matt
