Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kool-Aid packets on a store shelf - Jaclyn Vernace/Shutterstock Childhood summers always included Kool-Aid, that inexpensive soft ...

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.

For the rest of the world it’s Friday the 13th, but in Hastings, Neb., it’s National Kool-Aid Day. It was there in 1927 that local legend Edwin Perkins invented the powdered, sugary beverage now owned ...

Rarely does a brand stay relevant for nearly 100 years, but that is exactly what Kool-Aid has been able to achieve for nearly that long, 91 years to be exact. Started in 1927 by Edwin Perkins, this ...