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Article: Space Food Sticks.
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 24, 1999
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The low-calorie, nutritious predecessors of today's "energy bars" made their earthly debut in 1969 after a successful voyage around the moon. The space-age snacks - like Tootsie Rolls in shape and texture -came in chocolate, butterscotch, and peanut-butter flavors. Each was individually wrapped in cosmic-yellow aluminum foil.
The trendy sticks with the out-of-this-world cachet were a commercial version of the food cubes Pillsbury had developed for astronauts to eat.
The cubes had been the first solid food consumed in space, ...