Pandemic Comfort Food In Space
Pandemic Comfort Food In Space
“Look closely: Wasabi peas, Ocean Spray Crasins, apricots, French’s yellow mustard, Smuckers strawberry jam, and of course, Sriracha sauce – with Huggies velcroed on the wall to clean up astro faces after eating.”
Sriracha sauce is absolutely an essential. Period. Stop.
it is critical to maintaining balance within one’s vital fluids.
I was about to make a joke about _Dr. Strangelove_ and the importance of protecting our bodily fluids. But then I remembered something a bit more relevant…
On one Shuttle flight, the first with a Mexican national on the crew, they included some Mexican food in the supplied meals. That lead to a change in some of the regular meals for subsequent Shuttle missions. It turned out that tortillas are much easier deal with in freefall and produce far fewer crumbs than bread. So a soft (tortilla-wrapped) taco is a better choice than a sandwich for lunch.
I use them as a roll-up instead of bread for PB&J’s. Chopping up a western omelette and adding guacamole & sriracha in a rollup is also tasty.