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The Future Will Taste Like Space Food Sticks

SundaySunday — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:54:41 PST

Man, these things ROCKED!! I remember going to my Grandma's house and loading up on these things. Thanks for the memories.

SundaySunday

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strider_mt2k — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:27:28 PST

Oh yeah.
Them and Tang.

That's what the future tasted like alright.

MMMMM AEROSPACE!

strider_mt2k

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Evil Tortie's Mom — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:33:24 PST

I loved them. Playing with them, eating them, everything. I've gotta get some of these and pick up some Tang and go on a sugar-fueled nostalgia trip.

Maybe. This might be one of those things better left to memory.

@dijou: YES! Thank you.

Evil Tortie's Mom

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Cacafuego — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:45:10 PST

I liked 'em. The chocolate ones sucked, but the caramel ones weren't bad. Especially if you wadded them up until they looked/felt like Milk Duds.

Cacafuego

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dijou — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:35:49 PST

So here's the funny thing...

A number of years ago I bit into a chocolate brownie Balance Bar and had one of those wicked taste-flashbacks. I just KNEW I'd tasted this taste before, but it tooks months to figure out what it was and then a few weeks more to remember what they were called.

So Space Food Sticks were the moldable (I used to make rings out of them before I ate them) protein bars of our childhood :-)

dijou

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Ghede — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:18:32 PST

Mmmm, chalky.

... What? Am I the only one who likes the taste of plain antacids?

Ghede

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Bancho — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:30:41 PST

@I-prefer-evil-genius:

I ate 'em while playing with my "Billy Blastoff" toys. Those things rocked (the toys more so than the treats...)

Bancho

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I-prefer-evil-genius — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:26:07 PST

I loved 'em

I-prefer-evil-genius

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cabooglio — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:21:05 PST

I ate those mamma jammas up when I was a kid! I do wish they'd bring back the caramel, though.

... interesting side note: the new packaging ([www.funkyfoodshop.com])was done by my good friend Ralph Cosentino. It uses characters from his children's book, The Marvelous Misadventures of Fun-Boy ([www.amazon.com])

Ralph is the super-coolest and he smells like cinnamon rolls and sunshine!

cabooglio

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Bancho — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:17:05 PST

I remember these *treats*. The concept was sound, but they could have used some work on the edibility aspect...

Bancho

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BadUncle — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:35:42 PST

Those things were sucktacular.

BadUncle

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GreyGander — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:36:38 PST

I remember them all too well. Their basic flaw was trying to include too much protein powder and still keep you from throwing up after chewing on them.

You would think the chocolate would cover up all the flavor sins, but not so in this case. It was a crappy chocolate powder that they scraped up from the floor of some Arabian brothel. The peanut butter version didn't clash with the flavor of the protein powder used, and so it merely tasted like gummy hamster food pellets...

GreyGander

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bitgod — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:36:29 PST

Ah, good times. I remember eating these as a kid in the early 70s. That and Tang baby!

bitgod