I am at a loss to think of any other beverage, let alone food item that has found itself burdened with the the metaphorical albatross of doom as our friend in the smiling jug. "Drinking the Kool Aid" has solidified itself in our popular lexicon as committing a willful act of harmful self delusion. Two generations of American children have thus grown to adulthood having a strange cultural weight attached to what is essentially a bag of food coloring and sugar. What's more, it seems the tragic throngs at Jonestown were in fact drinking a generic version of the stuff, known as "Flavor Aid".
Sorry Kool Aid Man....
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