National Kool-Aid Day coincides with the first day of Kool-Aid Days each year, which is always celebrated on the second weekend of August in Hastings, Nebraska, the city where Kool-Aid was created.
Childhood summers always included Kool-Aid, that inexpensive soft drink mix that we kids could make ourselves by mixing it with sugar and water. After chugging a glass, we'd bounce around on a sugar ...