What did GI's call Kool-aid in WWII?

[ChristopherPerrien]

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.

[Aufklarung]

You got me.
Beverage, powdered, fruit flavour might work!!
I don't know either.
regards
A

[moses]

beverage, powdered, fruit flavor, caliber 45, M1

[Korbius]

Instead of Kool-aid, they would call it Cool-aid or Kewl-aid

[ChristopherPerrien]

wrong so far.

[20 Juli 1944]

Milk was called Klim
Kool Aid was look dia ?
Fruit Smack was the orignal name

[Korbius]

But are we sure it existed during that period or is this some type of a joke?

[Yngwie J.]

??

[ChristopherPerrien]

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.
RIP- Mr. Byrd

[Aufklarung]

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.
regards
A

[ChristopherPerrien]

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.

[Punk_Waffen]

Damn i found this thread way to late cause i knew that too..... i woulda looked good...BAH

[ChristopherPerrien]

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.

[Punk_Waffen]

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"

PW

[Cantankerous]

From Holiday Insights:

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.

I think that GIs in World War II did not refer to Kool-Aid as Kool-Aid.