Sadness and Whoah!
A new weekly feature for the Oddstill Blog.
You know what's sort of sad, when a company has an incredible ad campaign for a product that has every opportunity to be great. I mean really great. It has retro appeal and kid appeal and regular people appeal. And then. . . it turns out to be. . .I'm searching my mind for a word that doesn't need to be censored. . .
Turns out there is no one word, but the phrase "just wholeheartedly awful" fits pretty well.
What is this product? Sad to say, it is Kool-Aid Fun Fizz.
The Whoah part of this post is, "Stop! Do not buy this! Some children may love it, but why should we adults support bad taste in the younger generation."
Not to mention that I (and many of you) have problems with some of the ingredients. Aspartame sets off all my mom alarms and the taste of sorbitol is beyond horrible. (Thankfully, my child, who loves some of the most awful tasting things, can not stand this product.)
Why can't they just make these little disks with unsweetened Kool-aid and let us add our own sweetener? Or just make them with -- heaven forefend -- SUGAR? Maybe these things are scientifically impossible. I know I consumed some similar thing back in the 70's when I was my child's age and they were pretty good. Mind you goodness knows what they fed us back then. We're all lucky to be alive.
