QuestBar=SpaceSticks
 

I stopped by a gas station yesterday evening and saw some of these Quest bars people talking about eating. They were sitting in a bin for half price. I got one that was fudgey chocolate or something. No wonder it was priced half, tasted like these things from my childhood:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Food_Sticks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPZ8HHRR1A0

"The Perfect between meal energy SNACK!"



COLLECT THEM ALL!

I hadn't thought about Space Food Sticks for ~40 years, but a couple of weeks ago they appeared on the new HBO show "I'm Dying Up Here" (based on 1970s Comedy Store).

In my early days LCing, I mixed protein powder & peanut butter to make bars with a similar consistency, but I no longer eat PP or PB, but even that didn't remind me of Space Sticks until now. Of course they got a bit greasy when it was hot out. God knows what Space Sticks had in them to weather a wide range of temperatures and remain dry but flexible.

Did you find some Tang to go with them?

"negative Houston, Tang unavailable for consumption this orbit. will try mixing and consuming on next pass. over..."

Lol, Pillsbury Space Sticks. Wow, what memories...

We got them just once in a great while because we didn't have a lot of money. The "lucky" kids seemed to have them in their lunchboxes every day. We were stuck with sandwiches with home baked bread and homegrown tomatoes.

I remember being conflicted. They were so cool: the astronauts ate them!!! But they were really pretty yucky.