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Kool-Aid Pineapples Look Toxic and Taste Amazing. Here’s How to Make Them.

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Pineapple has joined the long list of foods the internet couldn’t leave alone.

Kool-Aid pineapples are the internet’s current summer snack obsession because apparently, regular fruit was getting cocky. The idea is simple and pulls on nostalgia strings. Take pineapple spears or chunks, dump them into a jar with Kool-Aid, sugar, and juice, shake it vigorously, then let it sit in the fridge until the fruit turns a color that doesn’t exist in nature.

The finished product looks like pineapple that spent the weekend at a rave and came home with a fake ID. Red, blue, green, purple. It’s juicy. It’s aggressively sweet. It looks a little radioactive under normal kitchen lighting. Here’s how to make it.

A Kool-Aid Pineapples Recipe

2 1/3 cups pineapple juice

Put everything in an airtight container (or two or three) and shake well. Let it sit for a day or two, and you’ve got yourself a........

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