Re: space ice cream...

[Greg Mowczko <mooch>]

Hey my mother works at the Army Labs that developed Space ice cream and
is in charge of the food that the Astronauts eat while up there. They
procedure food goes through is strange. Some food gets bought locally
then goes to Canaveral to get radiated and then back to be processed
then back again as finished. Odd.
						Greg

> From furmansj@ecn.purdue.edu  Mon Jul 19 18:01:30 1999
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 18:01:16 -0500 (EST)
> From: Jevan Furmanski <furmansj@ecn.purdue.edu>
> To: steve@cioe.com
> cc: gmlist@cioe.com
> Subject: space ice cream...
>
> Only working for NASA...
>
> Today was a landmark day in my time as a NASA engineer.  When an
> officemate had moved out, he left all of his flight hardware behind in
> cardboard boxes.  My boss came in to clean up and to take the cool stuff
> that he wanted to his office, part of which was a box labled "shuttle
> tiles".  We got into an arguement on who would get a tile, and so Mark (my
> boss) produced a misshapen piece of styrofoam from the packing of the box
> and gavve it to me saying "Here, this is yours."  Showing my disdain for
> his pretense to give me crap, I took a bite right out of it.  About the
> time I was spitting it out, the other coop said "I can't believe you took
> a bite out of a shuttle tile!"  I quickly smoothed out the tooth shaped
> part missing into a smooth divot, and placed it on my desk under some
> papers.  It took a while to wash out the taste of impervious ceramic foam
> from my mouth, and strangely the texture of the tile resembled that of
> freeze-dried space ice cream snacks.  So this is my advice, beware all
> space ice cream, and spite and shuttle tiles don't mix.
>
> Jevan
>