Freshie

noun, Cdn, proprietary, dated, a fruit-flavoured powder mixed with water and sugar (COD)

“I didn’t really like haying very much because haying was so hot. The one thing about it, they used to have cold glasses of Freshie for us at about five o’clock before supper. As youngsters we never did get paid, but we were always told that, you know, we could have food for free, room and board, so.”

“When he got home he was a little upset and he says ‘Oh, Aunt Sarah, I really need a drink’. And he grabbed this milk bottle thinking it’s Freshie because it looks like grape Freshie, right?”