Red drink

Red drink is any of an assortment of red-colored beverages consumed with soul food. During the transatlantic slave trade, enslaved Africans brought kola nut drinks and hibiscus tea, traditional red-colored beverages of West African cuisine, to the Americas and adapted new red drinks based on the ingredients available to them. Hibiscus tea, pink lemonade, red Kool-Aid, and red sodas such as Big Red are all modern red drinks in the United States. Red drink is especially associated with Juneteenth.