Kool-Aid Is The Official Soft Drink Of This US State - Chowhound

Jaclyn Vernace/Shutterstock 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 high, our faces stained by the drink's vividly colored dye, half expecting Mr. Kool-Aid to come crashing through a wall to shout "Oh yeah!" We have an inventor named Edwin Perkins to thank…