A Professional Food Critic Samples Space Food

Bill Daley is the nutrient critic for the Chicago Tribune , accustomed to specialize the hunky-dory points of the expensive , of age steak of Rush Street , not the freeze dry out mailboat of astronaut cuisine . So when NASA transport him a few packets to screen out ( most of them cook through injectant with raging water ) we were pretty cracking on hearing just how well our humankind and woman of the cosmos were eating ( with no access code to real Cosmos , of course ) . His finding of fact ? Sometimes the solid food was quite good , other clip , not so much . Lunch went well …

I could easily have polish two parcel of the shrimp cocktail , long an astronaut favorite . The six medium - size of it orangeness shrimp were just a touch chewy after their sloppy , 10 - minute water bath , but they bet and smelled like what you get at the supermarket . NASA ’s cocktail sauce is spiked with plenty of horse radish and saltiness . If anything can revive threadbare predilection bud in space , this dish is it . I chased it with a pouch of fine-grained mango - orange drink . The lush but tangy mango flavor juiced up the orange ’s fragrance , and the mango scent was pronounced . It was delicious .

Breakfast , on the other hand …

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The food scientists had also sent two breakfast point , freeze - dry out “ Mexican ” eggs and a blimp cake . The eggs , colored a lustrous buttercup yellow , were bouncy and broke down into small , dry curd . Flavorwise they were like a reluctant suitor , vaguely sweet but unwilling to make the full sense of taste commitment . Hot sauce , ketchup even , would work wonder here . Nothing , however , could have save the sausage cake .

There ’s lots more foodie quad fun where this came from , so hit the link for the complete article . It ’s a merriment , quick and educational read . [ Discover ]

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