# My Space Food Sticks review

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-space-food-sticks-review/121358>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 29, 2002, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-space-food-sticks-review/121358 "2002-07-29T11:51:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![KXL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KXL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KXL)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-space-food-sticks-review/121358/1 "2002-07-29T11:51:14Z")

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Thanks to this site, I recently discovered

[http://www.spacefoodsticks.com/](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.

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**Author:** ![INSANE1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@INSANE1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/INSANE1)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-space-food-sticks-review/121358/2 "2002-07-29T12:01:14Z")

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The caramel flavour Space Food Sticks are sooooooooooooooooo much better than the chocolate flavoured ones.

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**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-space-food-sticks-review/121358/3 "2002-07-29T13:10:44Z")

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General Questions is for questions with factual answers. MPSIMS is for Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share. Since I don’t see a General Questiion . . .

Off to MPSIMS.

**DrMatrix** - General Questions Moderator

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**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-space-food-sticks-review/121358/4 "2002-07-29T15:53:15Z")

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Thanks for the follow up KXL. I haven’t been brave enough to hit the “check out” button.

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**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-space-food-sticks-review/121358/5 "2002-07-29T21:10:05Z")

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FWIW, chocolate Power Bars remind me a lot of space food sticks.

FU Shakespeare