Who remembers Space Food Sticks?

A snack from my childhood. They were a strange treat, weren't they? I was reminded of them by this story:

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PARIS (AFP) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have been feasting on experimental gourmet food designed by top French chef Alain Ducasse, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported.

Last Sunday, the ISS crew got their first taste of the five-star offerings, which were packaged in tins and prepared to strict hygiene standards, ESA said in a press release. All the crew had to do was heat the tins in the ISS' oven.

The main dishes included quails roasted in Mardian wine, red tuna with candied Menton lemon, "Riviera-style swordfish" and a confit of breast of duck with capers.

Ducasse's menus contrast with the first food consumed in space by Soviet cosmonauts and US astronauts around 45 years ago, which were fruit compotes and other bland mixes squeezed out of aluminium tubes like toothpaste.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061201/lf_afp/afplifestylespace_061201180404

:hi: :bounce: God, my brother and sister and I loved those!!! My favorite was the vanilla one!!!!

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I really liked them. They had an unusual chewiness.

Get 'em while they're hot. Hop aboard the wayback machine, here we go!

http://www.funkyfoodshop.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=category.display&category_id=5

one of the first backpacking energy bars.

I had a stomach ulcer at age 9 and those were actually my only nutrition besides Gerber's meat sticks and milk for a long time growing up.

Or waxy chocolate. Take your pick.

I used to love to eat those things

I thought it made me like an astronaut I guess

:rofl:

I was making myself crazy a while back trying to remember what they were called...can't remember why I thought of 'em, but...

Damn.

I used to like 'em. God knows why.

weird (but good) chocolate stick-things my mom would get at the store (I'd be in the cart and I guess if I was fussy she'd give them to me right there - the only place I can remember eating them was while in a shopping cart) and could NEVER remember what they were.

Loved them, if I remember correctly.

and I had no idea what happened to them. They seemed to disappear off the market as soon as the Apollo mission era was over, or shortly thereafter.

Here's another blast from the past. Does anyone remember a diet candy called, I'm not kidding here, Aids? It came in little squares, was supposed to contain an appetite suppressant, and had a caramel-chocolate kind of flavor suspiciously close to space food sticks. That one disappeared off the market pretty fast around the time, well you know when.

AYD'S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UtUpPDuMfk

Ayds with a 'Y'.

or if they renamed it. I think they just gave up.

I would dip my Space Bar in Tang!
I also remember AYDS. I heard once that the appetite suppressant was amphetimine.Probably an urban legend!

But great if you washed them down with Tang!

I wish they still made them.

at the Liberty Science Museum. It's really good.

Kind of like flavored Styrofoam.

redstone

is still on the market. Smithsonian Air & Space gift shop sells it. I've also seen the exact same freeze dried ice cream product in outdoor stores packaged as backpacker ice cream instead of astronaut ice cream.

I was glued to the TV during all the moonshots and spent several weeks living on nothing but Space Food Sticks, Tang and Astronaut Ice Cream. When Tang gave away a wind-up-and-go model of the Lunar Rover with their 20 oz. jars, I was in hog heaven. I ultimately had the world's largest private collection of small plastic Mooncars. And a serious case of hyperactivity.

And our case was bolstered by the claim that this was the food of OUR ASTRONAUTS.