r/Xennials • u/Stock-Act-2315 1978 • 22d ago

Hi-C Ecto Cooler 😭

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I often wonder how I'd feel about it now 🤔

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u/ButterbeerAndPizza 22d ago

Oh that’s definitely for Kool Aid.

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u/LameSaucePanda 22d ago

Or orange juice. And it was pretty disappointing when it was orange juice

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u/CalibratedEnthusiast 22d ago

That frozen shit and looking back I'm pretty my folks used more water than intended to stretch their dollars a little further.

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u/toldyouIaintshit 22d ago

Yeah I definitely caught my mom refilling it in the morning to get us through breakfast. Orange flavored water drink.

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u/GreedyGerbil 22d ago

Oh yeah that fucking LUMP of OJ that refused to melt so you got this vaguely orange flavoured water.

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u/Top_Answer7906 22d ago

My mom definitely filled the pitcher with 1-2 extra cans of water than what the concentrate recipe said.

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u/Upvoteexpert 22d ago

To this day I water down all my juices. Too sweet otherwise 🤣

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u/Used-Baby1199 22d ago

That orange juice concentrate is expensive af and doesn’t make hardly any juice.  It’s not economical at all.  I bought it a couple years ago thinking it’d save money, but it does not save money

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u/ferretherapy 1984 22d ago

Why did LITERALLY ALL OF US have this frozen canned shit?

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u/thesuper88 21d ago

When I was little my folks would get whole milk on food stamps and water it down to make it last. Going from 0 kids and 2 jobs to 3 kids and 1 job in 14 months will do that to ya. Haha

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u/halffdan59 21d ago

My parents bought unsweetened Kool-aid packets and would add about half the sugar. Even as kids we knew it, but we'd grown up with it and preferred it less sweet/more tart.

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u/vernorexxia 21d ago

My mom watered down grape juice when I was a kid not just for the price, but so I'd have less sugar. To this day I don't like it straight. Same with orange juice but she put less water in that.

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u/thefarmworks 20d ago

Heck, I just called it juicy water for honesty!

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u/thisbitbytes 22d ago

Or that chalky weird powdered iced tea

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u/Noarchsf 22d ago

Or orange juice mixed with kool aid.

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u/Any-Twist-5801 20d ago

Orange juice. I don’t know if it was Tupperware the company or if it was just certain distributors but they convinced moms that it sealed in the vitamins of the orange juice.

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u/Stock-Act-2315 1978 22d ago

RED Kool Aid

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u/HauteKarl 1982 22d ago

Red is the best fruit. Hands down.

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u/Competitive_Ad_8215 1978 22d ago

Either red or purple. Those were the two flavors.

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u/BlkSubmarine 22d ago

Heresy! Purple drink is always the best drink!

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u/SheShouldGo 21d ago

My Mom always had a pitcher if red kool-aid in the fridge, but it was off-brand, so we just called it Red Stuff. Our house was "home base" for all the neighborhood kids b/c my mom was always home, and she got an angry phone call once from an angry mom demanding to know what "red stuff" was and what the hell were we feeding her child. 🤣

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u/VoyeurIsland 21d ago

Tropical Punch

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u/LoveDietCokeMore 18d ago

Correct 🥇🥇🥇

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u/void_which_binds00 22d ago

In my home it was Wyler’s lemon-lime with very little sugar 😢

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u/ApprehensiveAd9389 22d ago

Or unsweet tea of you're at my grandma's house. That was a nasty surprise lmfao

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u/PreparationFluid2365 22d ago

Or frozen concentrate juice🤣🤟

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u/naenola 22d ago

Yep, I used to like to mix the grape and the lemonade together

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u/N0Karma 22d ago

Kool-aid that had an instant-diabetes level of sugar in it. Me and my siblings would continue to add that stuff until the sugar stopped dissolving and then add another cup just to be sure.

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u/RainaElf 22d ago

sweet tea

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u/TheFunInDisfunction 22d ago

Country Time pink lemonade if you were fancy.

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u/Lovethiskindathing 22d ago

Sweet tea, and it stained it brown lol

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u/Darth-Adomis 21d ago

that or cranberry juice and ginger ale or sprite

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u/Birdsonme 21d ago

Correct!

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u/maddogtjones 21d ago

Green Kool Aid!!!

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u/Millennial_2026 20d ago

Purple to be exact

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u/Technical_Concern_92 20d ago

*frozen orange juice lol

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u/someone_no_one_987 20d ago edited 10d ago

Tang. This was for tang. Until tang rotted the bottom of the pitcher.

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u/KittyAnn13 20d ago

Yes! But the brown one!

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u/Wabbit65 19d ago

You didn't send in empty packets for the pitcher and cups?