Word Association: Tea Party? What comes to mind? Palin, racists, President Obama haters, people spitting on freedom fighting/peace loving icons from the civil rights movement. Maybe even the whole Boston thing back in Colonial times is where it is for you( although Crispus Attacks* is the only part of that scene that interests me). Just a few years back : Little girls pretending that there Barbie dolls were having a pleasant afternoon,or genteel gatherings to discuss arts and culture. Or just the Brits being anti coffee snobs.
Kool Aid : Jim Jones and The Jonestown Massacre-which probably led to folks believing that it is synonymous with a fatal last drink because you believed in a false prophets' demand that you take a sip as your final ambrosia before an awaited next life paradise.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Let us reclaim our drinks as good times/ liquid fun.
We better do it (heaven forbid ) before it happens to lemon aid too.
Ok lets visualize: Picture yourself on a hot summer day during your childhood. You've just come from outside soaked in sweat; You open the refrigerator door and see that pitcher just glistening. What's in it. KOOL AID ( insert flavor)! Sure, there is enough sugar in that one plastic picture to give half of China diabetes( but that's not the point here). You were on your way to a kool aid smile. Why you probably wouldn't have been shocked if while you were sipping on the bomb drink-the Kool aid giant smiling pitcher with legs and arms came crashing through the walls! Today he would be called the multi flavored terrorist for doing that. Reclaim Our Drinks Folks!
It may be too late for tea. Let's not let Kool Aid get shifted into propaganda in strawberry, celebrity gossip in cherry, war against terrorism/military industrial complex in lime,police brutality/justified law enforcement homicide in grape, or anything else that could corrupt:
Apple, Bunch Berry, Blastin' Berry Cherry, Blue Berry Blast, Cherry, Cherry Cracker, Chocolate, Cola, Eerie Orange, Frutas, Frutas Vermelhas, Golden Nectar, Grape, Grape Blackberry, Grape Tang, Melon Mango, Strawberry Splash, Great Blueberry, Great Blue-dini, Groselha, Guaraná,Ice Blue Raspberry Lemonade, Incrediberry, Kickin-Kiwi-Lime, Kolita, Lemon, Lemonade, Lemonade Sparkle, Lemon-Lime,Lime, Man-o-Mangoberry, Mango, Mountainberry Punch, Oh-Yeah Orange-Pineapple, Orange, Orange Enerjooz, Pina-Pineapple, Pink Lemonade, Pink Swimmingo, Purplesaurus Rex, Rainbow Punch, Raspberry, Roarin' Raspberry Cranberry, Rock-a-Dile Red, Root Beer, Scary Black Cherry, Scary Blackberry, Sharkleberry Fin, Slammin' Strawberry-Kiwi, Soarin' Strawberry-Lemonade, Strawberry, Strawberry Falls Punch, Strawberry Split, Strawberry-Raspberry, Sunshine Punch, Surfin' Berry Punch, Tangerine, Tropical Punch, Watermelon-Cherry, Shaking Starfruit
Maybe I'll start the Kool Aid Party! Daniel Carlton says " You are the flavor that you savor". Reclaim Your Drinks!
* Crispus Attacks ( A Black Man) was considered by many historians to be the first person to die in the American Revolution
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