Flavor Aid
Flavor Aid (stylized as Fla•Vor•Aid) is a non-carbonated soft drink beverage made by the Jel Sert Company in West Chicago, Illinois. It is sold as an unsweetened, powdered concentrate drink mix, and is frequently compared to the similar Kool-Aid brand drink mix.
Jonestown massacre
Template:Main The drink became infamous for being linked to the Jonestown mass murder-and-suicide when it was learned that the cyanide poison taken by or forcibly administered to the commune's members was placed in Flavor Aid. Large barrels filled with the grape variety, laced with the cyanide and a variety of tranquillizer drugs, were found half-consumed amidst the hundreds of bodies.<ref name="AtlanticHiggins">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="NPRBates">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="WordSpyKoolaid">Template:Cite web</ref>
Kool-Aid, rather than Flavor Aid, is usually erroneously referred to as the drink used in the massacre. The association with Kool-Aid has spawned the figure of speech "drink the Kool-Aid".<ref name="NPRBates"/><ref name="WordSpyKoolaid"/> Criminal investigators testifying at the Jonestown inquest spoke of finding packets of "Kool aid" (sic), and eyewitnesses to the incident are also recorded as speaking of "kool aid" or "Cool Aid."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>