There is power in powder: Drink up my friends ... set that where the packaging's design spanned four packets, featuring Kool-Aid man getting into the Independence Day spirit by riding a red ...

Kool-Aid packets originally sold for 10 cents apiece, but the price was dropped to 5 cents during the Great Depression when the drink was marketed as "the Budget Beverage." ...

And let’s face it—nothing says 1980s nostalgia quite like the Kool-Aid Man, even though he was created in 1927 by Edwin Perkins for the powder drink, that has always been a favorite to the youth.