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- From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
- Subject: Re: best food for space?
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- -From: rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (rabjab)
- -Subject: best food for space?
- -Date: 12 Jan 93 21:56:10 GMT
- -Organization: ucsd
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- -I watched Robinson Crusoe on Mars the other day and got the idea to
- -put my food in toothpaste tubes. I squezed out all the paste into
- -jars and used the blender to turn various foods into paste. I'm
- -having some problems getting the paste in the tubes, however. Does
- -anyone have suggestions?
-
- -When that problem is solved, I am going to need to get more tubes.
-
- Backpacking outfitter stores often sell (or at least used to sell)
- reusable transparent plastic toothpaste-type tubes for carrying things
- like peanut butter, jelly, honey, etc. on a backpacking trip. The back
- end of the tube (the end opposite the screw cap) is completely open, and
- you dump your food in there, then take a little clip and use it to clamp
- the back end shut. On the camping trip, you squeeze the food out the end
- with the screw cap. When you get home, you take off the clip, wash out the
- tube, and you're ready to fill it again. If you put perishable foods in
- the tube and don't have refrigeration, watch out for food poisoning.
-
- You sound like the perfect person to contact Pilsbury and get their recipe
- for Food Sticks (a snack item that was sold in the late 1960s or early
- 1970s, I believe) to post to sci.space, or perhaps you could even talk them
- into starting up manufacture again. I liked the chocolate ones the best -
- a perfect "astronaut food". (They may even have been called Space Food Sticks
- for a while.)
-
- And while you're thinking about foods for space, don't forget Tang. I don't
- know whether it was developed specifically for the space program (anybody
- know?), but it was selected for the space program as an orange juice
- substitute, because it's essentially nonperishable, and it can be shipped
- up dry and reconstituted with water (which is available as a by-product of
- onboard power generation). Reports from the early days of the space program
- indicate that dried orange juice doesn't reconstitute very well, which is why
- a substitute was selected.
-
- John Roberts
- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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