I know that when I do some of these
posts I talk about all the good things that kids nowadays don't get
to have that I did and feel bad for them. But there are some things
that kids today are lucky they don't have to deal with like terrible
candies and snacks that existed back in the day. There were some
things so bad that the tastes still exist in my mind's tongue. I have
found five of the ones I think were the worst ones. Mind you, this is
just candy. There were plenty of other things that went in my mouth
that tasted terrible. Wait...
Flavor Aid. You poor bastard.
Figuratively and literally. If someone told you they had Kool Aid and
you got this you got your first taste of actual rage as a child. This
was more like Fool-Aid than anything else.
You would have to add so
much sugar to make this drinkable you might as well have just threw
it away and just drank sugar water. It tricked you because it looked
like it should be sweet but it didn't even smell like Kool-Aid. It
smelled like a beach. Venice Beach. They wouldn't even send this shit
to starving children. If you've never had to drink this because you
could afford the real thing or because you just knew better count
yourself as lucky. And don't be fooled by its claim to contain vitamin C. That's a lie and a half. I'm sure herpes has some useful vitamins in it, too.
