My recollections may be hazy, but I do recall Tang being bought in quantity in the early 1960s, not “languishing on the shelves”.
Looking it up, I find that Tang was inventede by the same guy who invented Cool Whip and Pop Rocks: http://www.todayinsci.com/cgi-bin/indexpage.pl?http://www.todayinsci.com/7/7_26.htm (scroll down to “Deaths”)
I remember drinking *lots * of Tang as a boy then. All that sugar may explain some of my fillings today.
Lissa, I do hope you didn’t send the kiddies any Astronaut Ice Cream, or you’ve got even more explaining to do. It looks, feels, and tastes just like chalk.
Actually, that’s the bulk of it. There are three packages of different ice creams and one package of raspberries.
If they don’t like it, they can always take it to school and pass it around for show-and-tell. It’s more the idea than the actual product.
Crazy Aunt Lissa is always sending them books and other educational curiosities. They’re bright kids, and should be encouraged. (Not that their parents don’t realize that-- they’re great, but sometimes outside encouragement means more than what mom and dad does every day.)
Funny, to me, it always tasted like a chocolate flavored sponge, but before the sponge was used, when it was still dry.
Is it me or does the guy on Chocks Vitimins look like a Caveman from those recent Geico commercials?
Do you often eat dry sponge? I find it’s much better when it’s well-soaked.
I recommend you just mention things like (as you’ve already said) the weight, how it’s very hard to get stuff into space, and how it doesn’t have water in it. That last one was my favourite part when I was a kid. You might also mention that it also takes up much less room when it’s dried.
Yeah, that first part was in response to Scott_Plaid, but I forgot to hit the “Quote message in reply?” box.
Do you soak it in in tea, or in cocoa?
I **like **astronaut ice cream
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lots of authorities disagree with that recollection.
I remember my mom mixing powdered Tang and powdered Ice Tea for a real refreshing taste treat, makes me wonder how I lived through my childhood.
baby food in tubes like toothpaste :eek: