Thanks to this site, I recently discovered
http://www.spacefoodsticks.com/
Remembering these fondly from childhood, I ordered some.
The first thing is the packaging. It may say “Space Food Sticks” on it but there’s nothing spacy about it. The orange box features a bicycle motocross guy. WTF?! Furthermore, these are not the straw-sized sticks wrapped in a semi-foil tube that we recall. Instead you get what at first glace looks like a “fun-sized” Kit-Kat. You get your basic candy wrapper about as long as a index finger and as wide as a thumb. When you open it, you see two straw-width (but short) chocolate sticks stuck together. You break them apart and eat them. If they were one on top of the other rather than side-by-side, you’d have more of the original item.
The texture is the same as I remember: a little dry and tough to chew. Your mouth gets a real workout. The taste is chocolate-carob. Think stale Tootsie-roll. But that’s not bad. That’s the way it tasted back in the 1960s.
I got two boxes (6 twin stick packs in each) for $17 including postage. Not bad considering the things are manufactured and shipped from Australia.
A fun adventure in nostalgia.