where does don't drink the kool aid come from
Drinking the Kool-Aid The phrase derives from the November 1978 Jonestown deaths,[1] in which over 900 members of the Peoples Temple, who were followers of Jim Jones, died, many of whom committed suicide by drinking a mixture of a powdered soft-drink flavoring agent laced with cyanide and prescription drugs Valium, Phenergan, and chloral hydrate, while the rest of the members, including 89 infants and elderly, were killed by forced ingestion of the poison.[2] The soft-drink flavoring was a mixture of both Kool-Aid and a competing brand, Flavor Aid.[3]