The Hastings Museum celebrates Kool-Aid's origins with a permanent exhibit

Hastings, Nebraska, is the birthplace of Kool-Aid, and the city's museum has a permanent exhibit dedicated to the powdered drink's history. You can see photos of it here on Atlas Obscura. The display follows inventor Edwin Perkins, who transformed an earlier liquid concentrate called Fruit Smack into the easier-to-ship powdered mix that became Kool-Aid in 1927. — Read the rest

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