Nebraska is the only state with an official state soft drink (all other states have officially named Jim Beam as their drink of choice). In 1998 the legislature named Kool-Aid as the state soft drink (There was nothing else to do in Nebraska in 1998 as the Cornhuskers didn't win the Big XII North). Kool-Aid was invented in Hastings by Edwin Perkins in the early 1920s (a result of several failed attempts to make meth). At the time of its invention it was called Fruit Smack (fitting) and came in concentrated liquid form, six flavors (grape, cherry, lemon-lime, corn, ass, and corn that's passed through ass) and packed in 4-ounce bottles (the bottle size allowed Nebraskans to store four different flavors in their asses). In 1927 he came up with a process to remove the liquid to make it easier to ship (and snort), and the name was changed from Fruit Smack to Kool-Ade (likely misspelled due to his Nub educayshon) [later to Kool-Aid].
