What did GI's call Kool-aid in WWII?
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What did GI's call Kool-aid in WWII?
I am seeing who might know this, particularily some of the "all-knowing" running around this forum. Feel free to say I don't know.
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Kool Aid
Milk was called Klim
Kool Aid was look dia ?
Fruit Smack was the orignal name
Kool Aid was look dia ?
Fruit Smack was the orignal name
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Alright since people are starting to wonder, and no experts have showed up, Here it is=
Bug Juice
Seems that it just was not macho to be drinking a "kids" drink named Kool-Aid, so they called it Bug Juice.
This was told to me by a WWII US infantryman, who lost a leg while blasting a bunker in the Seigfreid/West Wall line. Bad dude, I only saw him drink "Bourbon" for the twenty years I knew him He died back in 90.
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Bug Juice
Seems that it just was not macho to be drinking a "kids" drink named Kool-Aid, so they called it Bug Juice.
This was told to me by a WWII US infantryman, who lost a leg while blasting a bunker in the Seigfreid/West Wall line. Bad dude, I only saw him drink "Bourbon" for the twenty years I knew him He died back in 90.
RIP- Mr. Byrd
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Thanx CP, I can sleep at nite now .
IIRC there were alot of other members of the US armed forces that called Kool-Aid Bug Juice. I know I've read books about the US Navy in the Pacific who used that same term. Probably one of those generic erms started in a military and passed around over a number of years. It would probably be hard to find who and when first coined the phrase.
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IIRC there were alot of other members of the US armed forces that called Kool-Aid Bug Juice. I know I've read books about the US Navy in the Pacific who used that same term. Probably one of those generic erms started in a military and passed around over a number of years. It would probably be hard to find who and when first coined the phrase.
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True, I believe I read in "Wahoo" by Daniel O'Kane that US submariners called it bug juice too.
I will tell you this, the stuff will attrach bugs particularly when eating "chow" outdoors.
That and/or when you squash a bug its "guts" can be the colors of Kool-aid. You know what you PETA people can do.
I will tell you this, the stuff will attrach bugs particularly when eating "chow" outdoors.
That and/or when you squash a bug its "guts" can be the colors of Kool-aid. You know what you PETA people can do.
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Damn i found this thread way to late cause i knew that too..... i woulda looked good...BAH
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Yea it was a good topic while it lasted. I suppose we could try other GI nicknames for food.
Track pads-cake
Roadwheels-cookies
Jim Jones Punch- kool aid
Green eggs and Ham- literally
Nuclear war milk- that long self life milk
Paint thinner -coffee
lifer juice -coffee
Square fish- fish
Tobacco plug- ginger cake
pogey bait- real food from the real world
yard bird- chicken
Roadkill- meat, especially if in tomato sauce
Spam sandwich- not any different but I never ate one before or since
Ox tail soup- ditto
Kimshi stand- korean restarant
Over in Europe
BK Lounge- Burger King
Turk Burger- a gyro/doner place
I will say that the food was so bad and un-recognizable at my unit in Fort Polk, I used to call the meat "Diced Abortion". With the proper timing I could get some-one to throw up with that one or at least stop eating.
There are more maybe I will remember some others.
Track pads-cake
Roadwheels-cookies
Jim Jones Punch- kool aid
Green eggs and Ham- literally
Nuclear war milk- that long self life milk
Paint thinner -coffee
lifer juice -coffee
Square fish- fish
Tobacco plug- ginger cake
pogey bait- real food from the real world
yard bird- chicken
Roadkill- meat, especially if in tomato sauce
Spam sandwich- not any different but I never ate one before or since
Ox tail soup- ditto
Kimshi stand- korean restarant
Over in Europe
BK Lounge- Burger King
Turk Burger- a gyro/doner place
I will say that the food was so bad and un-recognizable at my unit in Fort Polk, I used to call the meat "Diced Abortion". With the proper timing I could get some-one to throw up with that one or at least stop eating.
There are more maybe I will remember some others.
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ChristopherPerrien wrote:I will say that the food was so bad and un-recognizable at my unit in Fort Polk, I used to call the meat "Diced Abortion". With the proper timing I could get some-one to throw up with that one or at least stop eating.
There are more maybe I will remember some others.
"Diced Abortion"
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Re: What did GI's call Kool-aid in WWII?
From Holiday Insights:
I think that GIs in World War II did not refer to Kool-Aid as Kool-Aid.During the Great Depression, the company cut the price in half. As a result, Kook-Aid remained popular throughout the Great Depression. During WWII packages of Kool-Aid, minus the brand name, were included in soldier’s rations. Here’s a little trivia for Monkees fans, Davey Jones appeared in the Kool-Aid commercials during the 1960s.