Seven Reasons Why the New iPhone Sucks

[jonesy]

...pitcher of Kool-Aid...

Sorry for being so European but what's a pitcher of kool-aid? I only know the pops and those would look really quirky in a pitcher.

 

[Protagonist]

Sorry for being so European but what's a pitcher of kool-aid? I only know the pops and those would look really quirky in a pitcher.

Wikipedia on "Drinking the Kool-Aid":

The term is derived from the 1978 cult suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. Jim Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple, persuaded his followers to move to Jonestown. Late in the year he ordered his followers to commit suicide by drinking grape-flavored Flavor Aid laced with potassium cyanide. A camera from inside the compound shows a large chest being opened, clearly showing boxes of both Flavor Aid and Kool-Aid.[4] There is also testimony from criminal investigators at the Jonestown inquest stating that there were "cool aid" (sic) packets there.[5] It is unknown whether these are a reference to the Kool-aid brand packets from the trunk, or simply a generic use of the more popular brand for the product. In what is now commonly called the "Jonestown Massacre", a large majority of the 913 people later found dead drank the brew. (The discrepancy between the idiom and the actual occurrence is likely due to Flavor Aid's relative obscurity, compared to the easily recognizable Kool-Aid.) The precise expression can be attested in usage at least as early as 1987.[6]
The saying "Do not drink the Kool-Aid" now commonly refers to the Jonestown tragedy, meaning "Do not trust any group you find to be a little on the kooky side," or "Whatever they tell you, do not believe it too strongly."[7] Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly is famous for using the term in this manner.[8]
Having "drunk the Kool-Aid" also refers to being a strong or fervent believer in a particular philosophy or mission — wholeheartedly or blindly believing in its virtues.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool_aid#.22Drinking_the_Kool-Aid.22

emphasis mine

 

[jonesy]

Aah. So it's a drink. I thought they only made them in pops. Silly me.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I always thought that Kool-Aid was just a product that flavoured water, much like Cordial (Cordial may just be an Australian thing, I don't know) except that it came in powdered form (rather than liquid).

Can anyone that has tried both Kool-Aid and Cordial fill me in?

Olaf the Stout