I am unbelievably excited. I just flipped through a few pages of the Vermont Country Store catalog before recycling it (I typically don't even look inside if it's not the holidays). And I found the one edible product that I have been craving since middle school:
SPACE FOOD STICKS.
I can remember driving with my dad to Ypsilanti for a math competition. The car crossed the Flint River, and I noticed and started talking about a beaver's activity on the water. While I talked, I held a Space Food Stick. The anticipation...
I can picture the cabinet from which I took it, in our Milbourne Ave kitchen (house above). My favorite ones were peanut butter, but I also liked the chocolate ones, and mom, as I recall, would buy both.
I have been thinking for years that someone should bring them back. Now, oh my gosh, they are here. Soft candy-like rolls of heaven. I need to place an order.
SPACE FOOD STICKS.
I can remember driving with my dad to Ypsilanti for a math competition. The car crossed the Flint River, and I noticed and started talking about a beaver's activity on the water. While I talked, I held a Space Food Stick. The anticipation...
I can picture the cabinet from which I took it, in our Milbourne Ave kitchen (house above). My favorite ones were peanut butter, but I also liked the chocolate ones, and mom, as I recall, would buy both.
I have been thinking for years that someone should bring them back. Now, oh my gosh, they are here. Soft candy-like rolls of heaven. I need to place an order.
oh yuck! I never could understand your love of those ... those ... oh yuck.
ReplyDeleteI am intrigued. Anything that comes in peanut butter or chocolate flavor can't be that bad. Let me know when you place that order..I'm in. ~RF~
ReplyDeleteI don't recall Space Sticks. I know not of what you speak.
ReplyDeleteTJH, how close are we in age? I am shocked that you don't recall those sweet, pseudo-food, Tootsie-like rolls of yumminess! They were popularized as the food of the astronauts.
ReplyDeleteWell, they weren't marketed as "space food sticks", but I remember them being in the house, going into my lunch bags, etc...
ReplyDeleteIIRC, they were made by Borden. Elongated, tootsie-rool like things, in a plastic/foil wrapper. Can't remember for the life of me what the retail product name was, but they were fairly tasty. More doughy and less blatantly corn-syrupy than a Tootsie Roll.