NASA higher ups: "A successful launch, did we provide them with plenty of reading material for this six year mission?" NASA intern: "We provided them with Pokémon magazine"
@@NuubiTuubi1000 it could mean a lot of things to be fair. Some are a bit… cheeky. Some are just silly. I don’t know Ellen’s meaning exactly. However, just the way she delivered it was quite funny.
@@NuubiTuubi1000 It could mean farting, it could mean something slightly ruder which is somewhat explosive, and apologising turns the innocent comment into the cheeky one.
Stop cutting out the giggle fits! They're definitely one of the best parts. Y'all are so full of unfiltered joy and good humor and it's why I watch your channel.
@@SimuLord I had a friend leave a box of Milk Duds they brought back from the States on my table. Days later I noticed the box was there, and likely because of how warm that room got sometimes when the sun hit it at a certain angle, the contents had melted and reset into a weird, shiny slab. American chocolate is so weird.
@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor I immediately thought of Futurama ^_^ "Why does Luke, the largest presenter, simply not kill and eat the other four?" (Lrr, of the Planet Omicron Persei-8)
this gives me such nostalgia for when classes would go on field trips to Nasa and the ice cream is the thing that EVERYONE would buy from the souvenir store and subject to all their parents and classmates on the bus ride home.
For those who are interested: You can get pretty close to what an astronaut today actually eats by buying an MRE (Meal Ready to Eat.) AKA a field ration you can get from army surplus and the like.* There are some differences, they have the ability to warm things up on the station so dont need to risk the chemical reaction that cooks field rations, and certain things arent allowed like dry salt, because tiny grains would obviously be a nightmare. It is usually dry, and often needs you to add water both in MREs and in space (and they apparently have different ways of doing that.), but its not like in this video as far as Ive seen. You can get recipes that lock up moisture, have too much salt for microbes, or are just so well packed, cooked, irradiated that they can get away with some moisture regardless. There are plenty of people trying these kinds of foods on youtube so you can see examples. *Ignoring that they get just plain fresh fruit and food each time a delivery pod comes up. (Which has to be eaten first of course.)
In the last month I have read a book series where the child on the moon base constantly complains of the irritated and dehydrated food, watched a video about the recently discovered first easter egg in a video game which is a McDonalds on the moon. Now Luke and Ellen are eating Space food. Two more references and I get a Bingo and a longing for Space Strawberries. Always one of my favorites from the science center.
Next time you eat astrofood maybe bring the gangs space queen Jane on board for some taste testing ♡ This was great to watch ♡ Definitely cheered me up
As a child, my uncle would bring me uneaten MRE snacks from his weekend National Guard sessions, and I LOVED the dehydrated peaches! To me, they are part of my childhood.
Lol I'm pretty sure they aren't just shoveling chunks of freeze-dried food rocks into their mouths on the ISS. Canadian starman Chris Hadfield even started a taste test and cooking TH-cam show when he was up there, and he made a burrito with the audience, and it actually looked really good. (I'm not trying to be sarky. This was a fun video. I just thought I'd share because it reminded me of that.)
Around Apollo era it was those packets but times have moved on and astronauts get nice food these days. If you're going to expect them to stay in the ISS for weeks you have to do a bit better than freeze fried potato :p
@@TonyHoyle Also I have to question whether British people even know what a fresh Peach tastes like. to my understanding their country's weather kills peach trees. By "Fresh" I mean: ate it straight off the tree.... washing optional. Preferably still as warm as the sunlight made it. Refrigerated? Frozen? I mean, if you have to... but best flavor? nothing beats fresh off the tree.
Cinnamon Apple Wedges? You'd better hope the cinnamon doesn't get loose. Imagine a cloud of cinnamon powder blowing around the ISS and getting all over everything.
Maybe it's just the American in me, but freeze-dried fruit is awesome. It tastes like fruit, but it's crunchy and kind of dissolves in your mouth. (Though maybe the quality of the initial fruit makes a difference; I've never had the astronaut food other than the ice cream, and they may start with cheaper fruit, relying on the branding to sell product rather than quality.)
I also love freeze-dried fruit, especially peaches. The immediate difference I noticed with this is that these are way bigger pieces than the ones I usually see sold as normal commercial food, which makes a significant textural difference.
Having eaten lots of freeze dried items while in the military I can say that eating such food w/o having liquids will result in having your plumbing getting clogged up, if you catch my meaning. Always hydrate when possible before eating.
Having a go at an entire block of the fruit cocktail in an MRE, sans water, is -an experience- a mistake you do only once (because you'll never be able to poop again!)
Swear you can make Show Of The Weekend about literally ANYTHING, & it's still gonna be the highlight of my weekend every time! Whatever the topic, Lukes jokes & Ellens fits of the giggles are just everything! ☺❤❤
One of my favorite facts about astronaut food: you can't really take bread into space, since crumbs would be a problem. So they use a lot of tortillas instead.
@@marhawkman303 Valid, but I've heard more than one astronaut cite the crumbs issue. Quote from a blog post from the Kennedy Space Center about food in space, and the ISS in particular: "Did you know that bread is not allowed on the International Space Station (ISS)? This is because it produces crumbs that become unmanageable when floating about the space station. The solution: Tortillas!"
Remembering back to the stated goals on the launch (heh) video on the channel, I wonder if either Ellen or Tall Ellen knew that they'd end up eating freeze-dried food and reading Pokemon magazine.
Strong sibling energy in this one! Absolutely loved it xD Space ice cream is my favourite (just be glad it wasn't hashbrowns). Fun fact: your ability to taste in space changes and diminishes
2:58 Shows that need to shake the camera usually mount a clear plate in front of the lens that's two panes of glass sandwiching a transparent gel or flexible filler. You shake the plate to shake the image going into the otherwise stationary camera.
I cannot believe you guys stole Jane's supply of astronaut food! What's she going to eat next time she needs to go to Mars to check on the clone army?? Side note, I'm saddened by the fact that I actually know what the wiggle() expression is.
Luke’s usually so sweet and he looks so kind and cheerful, it makes it a million times more funny when he says something completely randomly morbid and dark. I am *here* for it. XD
As someone who works at a science museum, I can attest that these are the correct reactions to the tastes of these foods. The only one we don't sell is the apples -we have bananas instead. That being said you won't BELIEVE the number of people who ask for the astronaut ice cream on a daily basis. We can't keep it in stock.
I'm very much into space and space-related stuff, and so one Christmas I ended up with some astronaut branded freeze-dried ice cream in my stocking. It didn't even have the sandwich bit, it was just pink-and-white...ness. I made it very to Santa in a strongly worded letter to never do that again.
Space food has come a long way from what was being foisted off on consumers when I was a kid the early ‘70s. We got Tang and Space Food Sticks (no joke, that was the name).
Luke and Ellen doing SOTW is expected, but I think Jane should have been included since she's the closest thing to an Astronaut OX has. Also, 8:25 is the commercial for this faux Astronaut food.
It's amazing how widespread that astronaut ice cream stuff is. Seeing that exact brand in this video from the UK, also seeing it in museums here in america, it's wild.
I was hoping to see them stand the ice cream sandwich up on its end and take one of their phones to get a low shot of it while singing the space odyssey theme. Would've been so majestic! =)
Children's taste sensibilities frequently seem to be different than adults'. Toaster pastries come to mind, they seem to be quite chalky now, thirty years ago they were delightful and I don't think it's all due to economizing the recipe.
Trivia: Being in space reduces your sense of taste. This has been known since the 1960s, and it is related to a number of factors, including distribution of fluids in your body being different in zero-g. Real astronauts typically have to add *really hot sauces* to their foods to taste anything when they eat, such as Tabasco hot sauce. I've always wondered if a Carolina Reaper hot pepper could be consumed on the International Space Station with relatively little effect, since the astronaut consuming it wouldn't be able to taste it much. Sadly the special plane simulating zero-g is not enough to deaden the taste buds like zero-g space does.
Wait, surely the ice cream sandwich is not regulation, i was under the impression space food was to be void of crumbs as they would be hard to clean in a zero g environment and might damage equipment.
1) They tried to fix that by coating stuff in beeswax to avoid crumbling. Didn't work. 2) Freeze-dried ice cream was never sent into space. They send actual ice cream instead.
The entire time after the introduction of the ice cream, I just had a series of gradually louder "how DARE you"'s. Neopolitan is great. And while I don't like the icecream *sandwich* part, I love the freeze dried icecream. I always get like, at least 2 or 3 when I go to a museum. One for on the way home. Also best way to eat it isn't to chew, you break it into medium pieces and let it melt in your mouth
"Just because you're in space, doesn't mean you don't deserve a taste of extreme luxury." Yes, that's right, the spice must flow. ... I'll just see myself out then, yeah?
I’d like to know more about the marshmallows. Those sound just like the typical marshmallows you’d get on a hot chocolate in the USA. (The ones that don’t melt)
OK kids I saw 2001 A Space Odyssey when it came out. Huge screen, intermission, the whole thing. Of course I had no idea what was going on, but a great movie none the less.
I'm not 100% sure it's the same, but IIRC astronauts say that food often tastes bland because of the atmosphere differences in spacecraft. It's air, but a different proportion of oxygen, and a different positive pressure. For the same reason, your tastebuds are affected by travel in a presurised airplane - if you ate the same food on the ground, it would have a more vivid taste (whether that's good or bad is up to you).
Jane is just at home, judging this. Anyway, I've had lots of these from the Air and Space Museum, I like them, especially the ice cream. In space they tend to re-hydrate and heat these things as necessary too.
Producer Jon did such great camera work while Luke and Ellen sat there eating space food
Like the totally intentional tilting of the tripod
Then returning to a level course, just to have Luke and Ellen go "Again! Again!"
And yet, they are so charming! Just like puppies or kittens, they don’t have to do anything in particular they just have to exist.
The thing I love most about Show of the Weekend is the silliness 😂
Hey theyre real serious adult journalists lol nah yeah
NASA higher ups: "A successful launch, did we provide them with plenty of reading material for this six year mission?"
NASA intern: "We provided them with Pokémon magazine"
Every report back to Mission Control starts with "Published by Immediate Media. Not sponsored, it just seems fair"
That “excuse me” after “you’ve just blasted off” floored me. Love SOTW.
Same with Luke's little "show off" after Ellen mentioned she had very cheap marshmallows
So, uh, what was funny about that? English isn't my native language and only meaning I found for "blast off" was a rocket or space shuttle taking off.
@@NuubiTuubi1000 it could mean a lot of things to be fair. Some are a bit… cheeky. Some are just silly. I don’t know Ellen’s meaning exactly. However, just the way she delivered it was quite funny.
@@CN-Billy Some are silly. Some are cheeky. And some are to protect the world from devastation, to unite all peoples within our nation.
@@NuubiTuubi1000 It could mean farting, it could mean something slightly ruder which is somewhat explosive, and apologising turns the innocent comment into the cheeky one.
Luke earned a formal handshake from Ellen for his pun. Now that's an achievement.
Jane being in this one would have been great!
Stop cutting out the giggle fits! They're definitely one of the best parts. Y'all are so full of unfiltered joy and good humor and it's why I watch your channel.
I love how Jon has become part of show of the weekend and not just the guy behind the camera
Remember:
In space no one can hear you Ice Cream.
Puns?! In this economy?
How dairy!
@@gruggerduggerhoose Heh, have some Like-tose!
I didn't see Ice at first, so my head went a certain place
Boooooo to all of you!😂😂
get out... of the atmosphere
"A third of a shattered Peach" sounds like Luke having a very rough time of it in Mario Party
I never say "Deliver Us Mars" when it come to a box of Celebrations. I've always been more of a Bounty hunter.
I had to snicker while reading this. 🤭
@@lauramarschmallow2922 Laughing at this comment has put me in a bit of a Twix
I do so love to explore the Galaxy. Caramel.
"This is the Way"
@@SimuLord I had a friend leave a box of Milk Duds they brought back from the States on my table. Days later I noticed the box was there, and likely because of how warm that room got sometimes when the sun hit it at a certain angle, the contents had melted and reset into a weird, shiny slab.
American chocolate is so weird.
"In our relentless pursuit for youtube hits,
......at last Ellen has decided to eat me."
Such a funny preintro for this one lmao
You'd think it'd be luke eating ellen since he's so much taller
@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor Luke would never do that!...
...
He's pescetarian (thanks Lucario)
@@mar_speedman pescetarian. Also, I was trying to reference the Zoidberg meme but did a horrible job at it.
@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor I immediately thought of Futurama ^_^ "Why does Luke, the largest presenter, simply not kill and eat the other four?" (Lrr, of the Planet Omicron Persei-8)
@@mar_speedman Do we know for a *fact* that Ellen isn't a fish, though?
I mean, you might think you know someone, but do you really?
this gives me such nostalgia for when classes would go on field trips to Nasa and the ice cream is the thing that EVERYONE would buy from the souvenir store and subject to all their parents and classmates on the bus ride home.
"I don't....like that" made me laugh
Luke's puns were also on point in this video
When Luke said his tongue stuck to the dehydrated peach, my immediate thought was, "Like a bone!" I swear, it's an actual archaeological practice!
I learned that from QI! :D
Petition for all future Oxboxtra videos to be preceded with Luke's massively unenthusiastic "here comes the content" at 7:26 😆
For those who are interested: You can get pretty close to what an astronaut today actually eats by buying an MRE (Meal Ready to Eat.) AKA a field ration you can get from army surplus and the like.* There are some differences, they have the ability to warm things up on the station so dont need to risk the chemical reaction that cooks field rations, and certain things arent allowed like dry salt, because tiny grains would obviously be a nightmare.
It is usually dry, and often needs you to add water both in MREs and in space (and they apparently have different ways of doing that.), but its not like in this video as far as Ive seen. You can get recipes that lock up moisture, have too much salt for microbes, or are just so well packed, cooked, irradiated that they can get away with some moisture regardless. There are plenty of people trying these kinds of foods on youtube so you can see examples.
*Ignoring that they get just plain fresh fruit and food each time a delivery pod comes up. (Which has to be eaten first of course.)
In the last month I have read a book series where the child on the moon base constantly complains of the irritated and dehydrated food, watched a video about the recently discovered first easter egg in a video game which is a McDonalds on the moon. Now Luke and Ellen are eating Space food. Two more references and I get a Bingo and a longing for Space Strawberries. Always one of my favorites from the science center.
I love that show of the weekend is just Luke and Ellen messing around, it’s so fun
I literally used to work for NASA as a software engineer and they sold those in our gift shop too.
I've just got back after nearly choking. I made the mistake of eating when Tim Curry came out of fucking nowhere.
Should have asked Jane to do this with them so she could talk about her time at the space academy.
Watching a delicious sweet snack crumble into dust like a Cream Tea-1000 is as satisfying as it is unsettling. I feel both weird and hungry.
My grocery store sells non-astronaut freeze dried fruit, which are a great way to add fruit flavor to baked goods if you grind them into a powder.
Next time you eat astrofood maybe bring the gangs space queen Jane on board for some taste testing ♡
This was great to watch ♡
Definitely cheered me up
Shoutout to Jon’s camerawork this episode. Absolutely hilarious
Their Star Trek VR game is still one of my favorite videos. I still rewatch and laugh
Thank you Oxtra, for everything you do to your bodies in the name of entertainment
As a child, my uncle would bring me uneaten MRE snacks from his weekend National Guard sessions, and I LOVED the dehydrated peaches! To me, they are part of my childhood.
I think Luke has been hanging out with Johnny too much
Well yeah..... If I knew johnny, I'd want to hang around them all day...
Lol I'm pretty sure they aren't just shoveling chunks of freeze-dried food rocks into their mouths on the ISS. Canadian starman Chris Hadfield even started a taste test and cooking TH-cam show when he was up there, and he made a burrito with the audience, and it actually looked really good.
(I'm not trying to be sarky. This was a fun video. I just thought I'd share because it reminded me of that.)
Around Apollo era it was those packets but times have moved on and astronauts get nice food these days. If you're going to expect them to stay in the ISS for weeks you have to do a bit better than freeze fried potato :p
@@TonyHoyle Also I have to question whether British people even know what a fresh Peach tastes like. to my understanding their country's weather kills peach trees. By "Fresh" I mean: ate it straight off the tree.... washing optional. Preferably still as warm as the sunlight made it. Refrigerated? Frozen? I mean, if you have to... but best flavor? nothing beats fresh off the tree.
@@marhawkman303 Yes, we have fresh peaches in the UK. Poly-tunnels exist.
@@gwishart hmm....... sounds promising..... Now has Ellen or Luke eaten one? :D
@@marhawkman303 Polytunnels? Probably not. Usually you want to eat the stuff growing *inside* of them.
To people who didn't go to science camp in the 90s, it's like biting into a very tough sponge.
Cinnamon Apple Wedges? You'd better hope the cinnamon doesn't get loose. Imagine a cloud of cinnamon powder blowing around the ISS and getting all over everything.
Maybe it's just the American in me, but freeze-dried fruit is awesome. It tastes like fruit, but it's crunchy and kind of dissolves in your mouth. (Though maybe the quality of the initial fruit makes a difference; I've never had the astronaut food other than the ice cream, and they may start with cheaper fruit, relying on the branding to sell product rather than quality.)
I also love freeze-dried fruit, especially peaches. The immediate difference I noticed with this is that these are way bigger pieces than the ones I usually see sold as normal commercial food, which makes a significant textural difference.
8:16 MAKES ME LAUGH SO HARD. GOD LUKE'S DELIVERY WITH THE THINGS HE SAYS IS SOMETIMES SO ON POINT
Having eaten lots of freeze dried items while in the military I can say that eating such food w/o having liquids will result in having your plumbing getting clogged up, if you catch my meaning. Always hydrate when possible before eating.
Having a go at an entire block of the fruit cocktail in an MRE, sans water, is -an experience- a mistake you do only once (because you'll never be able to poop again!)
I already have issues with plumbing, so I guess freeze dry food isn't for me
@@BogeyTheBear yeah, I'm sitting here like: "READ THE SERVING INSTRUCTIONS!!!!"
Reminds me of the stories my dad told me about the hotdogs in an MRE. Or, as he said they called them, "the five fingers of death"
@@ShadowDancer98 don't be silly..... there's no way you could fit 5 hotdogs into an MRE :p
But seriously... never seen a hot--dog MRE.
Swear you can make Show Of The Weekend about literally ANYTHING, & it's still gonna be the highlight of my weekend every time!
Whatever the topic, Lukes jokes & Ellens fits of the giggles are just everything! ☺❤❤
I can watch this lot eat spicy jellybeans and have a fantastic time. So they're brilliant people.
I always got the astronaut ice cream as a kid. I remember loving it but I was a kid and things other than taste mattered more.
Astronaut content and no Jane in sight, the most astro of the crew! Simply unacceptable.
laughing ellen is the best thing ever. protect her at all costs
We're all convinced she's actually 2 Evee's in a trench coat right?
@@myrojyn honestly if that turned out to be the case, it’d explain why she’s so adorable
@@myrojyn doesn't check out. Let's say one Eevee on tall shoes
Aren't all potato's grown in excrement? Enjoy your fries people!
Luke should just be happy that Ellen didn't slip in a hellpepper flavor surprise.
sPICe!!!!! Thank you video editor.
How can you NOT like the strawberry part of a neopolitan ice cream sandwich??
I had freeze dried vanilla ice cream when I was a kid, actually quite liked it.
Freeze dried apple pieces (without cinnamon) are amazing! Highly recommend if you’ve never tried them.
One of my favorite facts about astronaut food: you can't really take bread into space, since crumbs would be a problem. So they use a lot of tortillas instead.
well, also, any bread made using yeast is hard to store properly , which is why MRE bread is like a thick squishy cracker instead.
@@marhawkman303 Valid, but I've heard more than one astronaut cite the crumbs issue. Quote from a blog post from the Kennedy Space Center about food in space, and the ISS in particular: "Did you know that bread is not allowed on the International Space Station (ISS)? This is because it produces crumbs that become unmanageable when floating about the space station. The solution: Tortillas!"
@@jmgriffee oh, yeah, crumbs are a nightmare to deal with to be sure. And MRE bread is crumby as heck.
Also bread is nowhere near calorie dense enough for their size and mass.
Remembering back to the stated goals on the launch (heh) video on the channel, I wonder if either Ellen or Tall Ellen knew that they'd end up eating freeze-dried food and reading Pokemon magazine.
Strong sibling energy in this one! Absolutely loved it xD Space ice cream is my favourite (just be glad it wasn't hashbrowns).
Fun fact: your ability to taste in space changes and diminishes
8:43 It's times like this when the phrase "Luke Westaway, Former Senior Editor at CNET" rushes into my head.
Though, to be fair, this is probably more entertaining than anything CNET has ever done.
I for one enjoy drunk Producer Jon. I speak for myself, and only myself, and I accept that
To sum it all up "CRONCH...🤨"...I LOVE💕
2:58 Shows that need to shake the camera usually mount a clear plate in front of the lens that's two panes of glass sandwiching a transparent gel or flexible filler. You shake the plate to shake the image going into the otherwise stationary camera.
I cannot believe you guys stole Jane's supply of astronaut food! What's she going to eat next time she needs to go to Mars to check on the clone army??
Side note, I'm saddened by the fact that I actually know what the wiggle() expression is.
Luke’s usually so sweet and he looks so kind and cheerful, it makes it a million times more funny when he says something completely randomly morbid and dark. I am *here* for it. XD
I had astronaut ice cream once, it was surprisingly nice! Then again, there was no excrement involved so...
Having eaten these very frequently I can say they never get worse
That camera shake was surprisingly effective
I'm escaping to the one place not corrupted by appletalism... SPICE!
The spice must flow!
“SPICE” I cannot beLIEVE
As someone who works at a science museum, I can attest that these are the correct reactions to the tastes of these foods. The only one we don't sell is the apples -we have bananas instead. That being said you won't BELIEVE the number of people who ask for the astronaut ice cream on a daily basis. We can't keep it in stock.
So that's Deliver Us Mars then...
Highlight was probably Ellen's reaction to Luke's theory on the hunger inducing properties of gravity.
I'm very much into space and space-related stuff, and so one Christmas I ended up with some astronaut branded freeze-dried ice cream in my stocking. It didn't even have the sandwich bit, it was just pink-and-white...ness.
I made it very to Santa in a strongly worded letter to never do that again.
Space food has come a long way from what was being foisted off on consumers when I was a kid the early ‘70s. We got Tang and Space Food Sticks (no joke, that was the name).
Look at them pretending this has anything to do with video games. It's adorable 🥰
Luke and Ellen doing SOTW is expected, but I think Jane should have been included since she's the closest thing to an Astronaut OX has. Also, 8:25 is the commercial for this faux Astronaut food.
It's amazing how widespread that astronaut ice cream stuff is. Seeing that exact brand in this video from the UK, also seeing it in museums here in america, it's wild.
I’m assuming that it’s being sold in the gift shop, and isn’t in an exhibit.
A bit of a shock that Luke was the source of so many great puns instead of Ellen. That said the Space Odyssey bit was inspired.
I was hoping to see them stand the ice cream sandwich up on its end and take one of their phones to get a low shot of it while singing the space odyssey theme. Would've been so majestic! =)
Ellens giggle makes this episode 🤣 and the crunch
Ellen and Luke: look at this terrible freeze dried nonsense!
Me at 10 years old: *buying this stuff from the science museum gift shop and loving it*
Children's taste sensibilities frequently seem to be different than adults'. Toaster pastries come to mind, they seem to be quite chalky now, thirty years ago they were delightful and I don't think it's all due to economizing the recipe.
Food, the final frontier.
Oh, oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.
Thank goodness for the mars bar in the end!
You saying "cinnamony" just made me realize why "Cini Minis" are named that way. ^^
I would love some sort of inverse day, where producer John is on camera, and Luke tries his best to follow his mad directions
I also thought it was Napoleon, Ellen! 😊
Trivia: Being in space reduces your sense of taste. This has been known since the 1960s, and it is related to a number of factors, including distribution of fluids in your body being different in zero-g. Real astronauts typically have to add *really hot sauces* to their foods to taste anything when they eat, such as Tabasco hot sauce.
I've always wondered if a Carolina Reaper hot pepper could be consumed on the International Space Station with relatively little effect, since the astronaut consuming it wouldn't be able to taste it much. Sadly the special plane simulating zero-g is not enough to deaden the taste buds like zero-g space does.
Wait, surely the ice cream sandwich is not regulation, i was under the impression space food was to be void of crumbs as they would be hard to clean in a zero g environment and might damage equipment.
1) They tried to fix that by coating stuff in beeswax to avoid crumbling. Didn't work.
2) Freeze-dried ice cream was never sent into space. They send actual ice cream instead.
The entire time after the introduction of the ice cream, I just had a series of gradually louder "how DARE you"'s. Neopolitan is great. And while I don't like the icecream *sandwich* part, I love the freeze dried icecream. I always get like, at least 2 or 3 when I go to a museum. One for on the way home.
Also best way to eat it isn't to chew, you break it into medium pieces and let it melt in your mouth
The links to gaming are getting more and more tenuous, and I love it.
Ellen's giggles are the highlight of many a SOTW, but the one that transforms into a dry cackle at 12:21 really got me good.
"Just because you're in space, doesn't mean you don't deserve a taste of extreme luxury."
Yes, that's right, the spice must flow.
... I'll just see myself out then, yeah?
IT'S BEEN 6 YEARS!!! It feels like only yesterday that Outside Xtra was kicking off. WOW
they never actually took the ice cream to space, to crumbly
"Eaten by astronauts since the Mercury missions."
So, the highest quality industrial food of the early 1960s...
Why doesn't Luke, the largest ox member, not simply eat Ellen in self defense?
i heard that prune juice is good for a show of the "weak end"
I really liked the tink sound when the ice cream hit the plate.
Freeze dried strawberries dipped in white chocolate are amazing.
I’d like to know more about the marshmallows. Those sound just like the typical marshmallows you’d get on a hot chocolate in the USA. (The ones that don’t melt)
Ellen's about to eat Luke... and we all stayed after hearing that. Sick, sick people we are. Wait, Luke's idea was poo potatoes? Eat him, Ellen!
Brilliant musical choices yet again!
That was fun
always love seeing something a bit different
I've read that astronauts don't really eat astronaut ice cream because it's too crumbley and the bits could float off and damage equipment.
I loved that stuff as a kid back in the 80s when it was far more "popular". Then again, I was a garbage scow of a child eating virtually anything.
OK kids I saw 2001 A Space Odyssey when it came out. Huge screen, intermission, the whole thing. Of course I had no idea what was going on, but a great movie none the less.
I often buy freeze dried fruit available as like a trail mix pack. I enjoy them. Also if you toss a handful in oatmeal it’s great.
I'm not 100% sure it's the same, but IIRC astronauts say that food often tastes bland because of the atmosphere differences in spacecraft. It's air, but a different proportion of oxygen, and a different positive pressure. For the same reason, your tastebuds are affected by travel in a presurised airplane - if you ate the same food on the ground, it would have a more vivid taste (whether that's good or bad is up to you).
Okay that was way more entertaining than it had any right to be. Love you guys!
Jane is just at home, judging this.
Anyway, I've had lots of these from the Air and Space Museum, I like them, especially the ice cream. In space they tend to re-hydrate and heat these things as necessary too.
I'm experiencing extreme nostalgia for an elementary school fundraiser where the main reward was astronaut ice-cream
delightfully unhinged
The freeze dried ice cream sandwiches from camping places are pretty good. Everything else needs to be rehydrated.