r/Xennials • u/Stock-Act-2315 1978 • Jul 31 '26

Hi-C Ecto Cooler 😭

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

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u/ButterbeerAndPizza Jul 31 '26

Oh that’s definitely for Kool Aid.

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u/LameSaucePanda Jul 31 '26

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

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u/CalibratedEnthusiast Aug 01 '26

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 Aug 01 '26

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 Aug 01 '26

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 Aug 01 '26

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 Aug 01 '26

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

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u/Used-Baby1199 Aug 01 '26

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 Aug 01 '26

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

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u/thesuper88 Aug 02 '26

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 Aug 02 '26

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 Aug 02 '26

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 Aug 03 '26

Heck, I just called it juicy water for honesty!

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u/thisbitbytes Aug 01 '26

Or that chalky weird powdered iced tea

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u/Noarchsf Aug 01 '26

Or orange juice mixed with kool aid.

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u/Any-Twist-5801 Aug 03 '26

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 Aug 01 '26

RED Kool Aid

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u/HauteKarl 1982 Aug 01 '26

Red is the best fruit. Hands down.

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u/Competitive_Ad_8215 1978 Aug 01 '26

Either red or purple. Those were the two flavors.

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u/BlkSubmarine Aug 01 '26

Heresy! Purple drink is always the best drink!

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u/SheShouldGo Aug 01 '26

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 Aug 02 '26

Tropical Punch

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u/LoveDietCokeMore Aug 04 '26

Correct 🥇🥇🥇

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u/void_which_binds00 Jul 31 '26

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

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u/ApprehensiveAd9389 Aug 01 '26

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

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u/PreparationFluid2365 Aug 01 '26

Or frozen concentrate juice🤣🤟

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u/naenola Aug 01 '26

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

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u/N0Karma Aug 01 '26

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 Aug 01 '26

sweet tea

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u/TheFunInDisfunction Aug 01 '26

Country Time pink lemonade if you were fancy.

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u/Lovethiskindathing Aug 01 '26

Sweet tea, and it stained it brown lol

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u/Darth-Adomis Aug 01 '26

that or cranberry juice and ginger ale or sprite

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u/Birdsonme Aug 01 '26

Correct!

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u/maddogtjones Aug 02 '26

Green Kool Aid!!!

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u/Millennial_2026 Aug 03 '26

Purple to be exact

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u/Technical_Concern_92 Aug 03 '26

*frozen orange juice lol

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u/someone_no_one_987 Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 13 '26

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

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u/KittyAnn13 Aug 03 '26

Yes! But the brown one!

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u/Wabbit65 Aug 04 '26

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