space food sticks

there are many, many little pieces of childhood that flare large on the horizon, arrive, and then disappear out of your awareness. this morning i came across a little memory, obscure, and probably not high on the list of importance but it returned all the same.

food has always been high on my list of priorities. i love all kinds of food, from junk to gourmet, appreciating each in its own right. as a kid i lived in a time when we were just beginning to get good at frozen food, and maybe "beginning" is overly generous, but the really cool food of my childhood was the stuff that came out for the astronauts going to the moon. in particular i remember the "space food sticks". about the size and texture of a pepperette but flavoured like chocolate, peanut butter, and caramel, the space food sticks looked and even tasted like the real thing. surely astronauts ate those and of course that gave what was essentially a piece of junk, real panache!

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