August 10, 1997 - Kool-Aid Days started in Hastings to celebrate the invention of Kool-Aid. The popular powdered drink mix, Kool-Aid, was created by Edwin Perkins in 1927. It came in six flavors and ...

Kool-Aid may have began as an actual drink sold by the bottle, but they're now synonymous with the powdered drink pouches our parents stirred into pitchers. The convenience of powdered Kool-Aid is ...

Childhood summers always included Kool-Aid, that inexpensive soft drink mix that we kids could make ourselves by mixing it with sugar and water. After chugging a glass, we'd bounce around on a sugar ...