And maybe because a regular glass of kool-aid has like 32 grams of sugar in it.

who makes regular Kool aid

This reminds me that I have a major black mail photo of my husband, circa 1977, playing hackey sack, shirtless, in dolphin shorts (really short running shorts), and with a bandana tied around his head. He thought he was totally cool! :)

I'm a crystal light fan too. It's much better than diet soda.

Kool - Aid, not so much. I used to like it alot as a kid, but just as my taste for cafeteria jello cubes (green), in glass parfait glasses, went by the wayside, so did the sugary taste of Kool - Aid.

Maybe.

I haven't had Kool Aid in yeeeeears. It's something for kids and people who can't buy better and healthier beverages, as far as I'm concerned.

Still healthier for kids than soda, with all the high fructose corn syrup. My mom would make regular koolaid sometimes, but not all the time or anything. Soda was only for like, birthday parties or eating out or something. We drank a lot of cranberry juice (that ocean spray cranberry cocktail stuff) when I was growing up, and looking at the labels now, I'm betting it had just as much sugar as koolaid (although slightly better vitamin content).

what ...? no Sunny Delight for anyone???????

We weren't allowed to have Sunny Delight when I was a kid. :( My mom would only buy real 100% juice. She refused to buy anything from the non-refridgerated juice aisle (plastic-bottled apple juice, grape juice, cranberry juice, fruit punch, etc.). She would only buy orange juice (with pulp) or the Dole juices (ex: orange-strawberry-banana). Other than juice, the only other thing we would have to drink is milk.

And I'll admit that I'm one of those people that will water down juice (if it's the plastic-bottled juices). Sometimes I'll get the diet juices (like diet V8 splash) because they're not as sweet. But I don't like the artificial sweetener aftertaste.

I think I've only had Kool-aid a handful of times, like at a friend's birthday party or something like that.

My family didn't have Sunny Delight when I was a kid*, but I discovered it in college. I was crushed when I found out it had pretty much no relationship to real juice. I was just slurping highly caloric sugar water.


*We always had the kind of orange juice you make from the frozen concentrate. Anyone?

I loved the frozen concentrate juice. I even like eat the frozen concentrate by itself. :) Grape and orange.

Sunny D was okay when I was a kid. Looking back, it's gross and I don't know what kind of orange juice we thought it was back then.

I'm pretty sure there's a good adult cocktail that we could make with that stuff. I know you can make pretty good lime daiquiris with the lime concentrate. Maybe I'll devote some time this summer to this experiment.

preach

There's a bar (Darkhorse) up at Penn State that has a drink that's frozen cranberry concentrate blended with tequila. It was pretty good, and I'm not a fan of tequila. However, if the bar was busy, they wouldn't make it for me. :( So I would get it whenever we would go early on Friday evenings (like 5pm).

Blasphemy!! :eek:

My Mom always made the frozen concentrate orange juice as well. In fact she went on some health kick for a while and would use the frozen concentrate to sweeten things in order to cut down on the cane sugar.

My ex-boyfriend's mom would always add a few spoonfuls of frozen concentrate orange juice to her Kool-Ade after she made it. I have no idea why...

But it makes the best punch (for baby showers and things like that), no matter how old you are --- you mix that stuff in with diet soda and ice cream (has to be diet soda or you're going to die), and you are SET. Your teeth are going to fall out, but it's soooo good.

My mom did that, too.

It's like what we do now with things like vanilla extract, lime juice, and orange juice--using it for sweet potatos and stuff.

Well, then it's no longer Kool Aid. It is a mixture in a much granderererer concoction. :) As long as you don't drink that stuff regularly, you're fine.

That makes me think of those huge tubs of concentrate that you can buy to mix with ginger ale (and ice cream, if you want). Those are also good.

You can make quick (and easy) margaritas by using one container of frozen lime concentrate, 3/4 of the container with tequilla, a full container of beer and ice to the top of the blender. Voila'

I do love a good sandwich, indi music and Arrested Development. Very funny blog.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to have a fucking $9 sandwich on something ridiculous like ciabatta today, and I'm going to revel in it - I don't mean to take away from black history month, but a honky's gotta eat.

The blog is hysterical.

As long as you're the one calling yourself that.

<----has eaten many expensive ass sammiches...better quality means more money

Okay, I don't know about everyone else, but the "recycling" topic in the blog (#64) had something that seemed very black to me. My parents weren't overly (or even remotely) concerned with the environment, however, just like the blog states white people do, we NEVER threw away plastic bags. That is the reason why I have a drawer in my kitchen overflowing with Wal-Mart bags right now. And i know a lot of other people that do too... My mom was always convinced you could use it for something else. Bathroom trash bag, a makeshift shower cap if you lost yours, or to put on the floor of her car if your shoes were dirty...

I don't know any black people who throw away plastic bags, except for the ones that throw them away because their bag of bags is full (like ours is right now).

My parents do! I think they always have, but when I was in Florida for Christmas, I asked my mother where she kept the plastic bags. (They renovated their kitchen back in the fall, so I have no idea where anything is.) She was all, "the Ziplocs are in the top drawer." For shame!

^^^ Oooooooh she gonna get her card revoked!

^^^^^^this lady I use to work with made me a bag caddy....its SOOOOO full right now that I started keeping them in the laundry closet :o ...ya just never know when you're going to need 1,913 plastic bags....:D

That's me to a tee. I keep thinking that I'll take them to the recycle bags spot at the grocery store, but instead, I just keep chucking the full bags of bags. I know, I'm probably going to hades for not jumping on the recycle bandwagon.

Have to say though, that my husband, who is in the plastic business
(name this movie quote:

I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
Benjamin: Just how do you mean that, sir?)

Anyway, he says that many of the plastics recycling companies that he sells equipment to just throw away most of the recycleable plastics that they pick up, only grinding up the high dollar recycleable products. Don't know where bags fall in the economics of recycling.

Thank you again, GC, for encouraging me to get some work done. LOL! I've been meaning to clean out my many bags of bags and get them under control. They've been taking over my cleaning pantry.

I've just finished counting and sorting and I have a total of 242 bags, mostly grocery but with some larger bags thrown in. I separated the little grocery bags from the others and put them in giant bags.

242 bags, y'all... :o

My mama'd kill me if I didn't save my plastic bags, lol! Right now they are kind of taking up a significant amount of food storage space in my not-very-large apartment, tho', so something has got to be done ... I use them for trashcan liners for little trashcans, and to take my lunch to work in whenever I take my lunch, but I still have WAY more than I will ever use up :rolleyes:

The dude behind the blog grew in Toronto

hmmmmm

The most important thing to satisfy people's curiosity is that he is white.

I like the fact that they discuss how he's "self conscious of his whiteness." That's an excellent concept because for decades only racial and ethnic minorities were viewed as having a race and trends and patterns of behavior and culture. Whites (the Canadian and N American assimilation of different white ethnic groups from around the world) were the mainstream from which the practices of "others" derived and were perceived as different. "Whiteness studies" began in the social sciences because there was a need to study the pattern of attitudes, behaviors, and cultural practices of whites just as they had been studied from nonwhites for a century.

The Toronto part is interesting because it contributed to his knowledge of his whiteness. Whiteness studies were especially salient for the whites who grew up and mingle in contexts like this blogger did. They were the minority in their areas and had to hear nonwhites talk about their whiteness--kind of like how nonwhites have been hearing whites talk about them forever and have been self conscious in racial and ethnic heterogenous settings. Very interesting read.

#51- Living by water

Yeah- that one if me. I don't know if that makes me a yuppie. Not sure what the blog is really about. It's not funny. I don't 'get' most of it and I'm one of those small town midwest white girls.

"Yo, yo, where my WASPs at?"
 

I feel like some people on GC wish this is what their lives were like.

Some people on GC would have us believe that IS what their lives are like. :cool:

LOL.

That's really what I meant, but it was too early in the morning for me to think that clearly yet lol

No, that;s the thread down the hall...

Seriously though, all I could think of when I saw that video was the Fratalicious one and his minions...

L. freakin' O. freakin' L.

Now these guys could definitely roll with their southern bros.

"High Tea in the parlor makes the ladies holler." -- classic!

this site is... funny, among other things. but i imagine it applies to ppl on the coasts / in big cities.

::has paid $7+ for a sandwich and it was quite tasty::