Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: higgmeister

Trump needs to put his brand on Kool Aide.


41 posted on 01/28/2016 10:33:18 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights (We can all be Twitter bullies! Trump does it, so it's okay!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies ]


To: Protect the Bill of Rights

If you are referring to Jonestown, they drank Flavor Aid, not Kool-Aid.

From Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor_Aid

Jonestown Massacre

The drink became linked to the Jonestown mass murder-and-suicide when it was learned that the cyanide poison taken by or forcibly administered to the commune’s members was placed in Flavor Aid. Large barrels filled with the grape variety, laced with the cyanide and a variety of tranquilizer drugs, were found half-consumed amidst the hundreds of bodies. Kool-Aid, rather than Flavor Aid is usually mentioned in connection with the Massacre, due to its status as a genericized trademark. This factual error has even spawned the figure of speech “to drink the Kool-Aid”. Film of Jonestown many months before the Massacre show stocks of both Flavor Aid and its leading competitor within the commune’s storehouses, so it is quite possible that both drinks were used as carriers for the poison.


44 posted on 01/28/2016 10:38:26 PM PST by r_barton (I'm a trumpeter for TRUMP, not one of the CruZEROS.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson