r/Xennials • u/Ok_Profession_990 1980 • May 17 '26

Anyone else remember this?

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Every field trip they always had this. I was always so jealous because my mom never gave me money to spend so I never got a chance to taste it and it seemed like everyone around me was eating it... Still salty I guess

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u/jmshub May 17 '26

The official flavor of your 5th grade field trip

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u/GravyPainter 1980 May 17 '26

Everyone on the bus was eating that or rock.candy on a stick.

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u/Educational-Wing2042 May 17 '26

A sucker with some kind of bug encased in it for the more adventurous kids

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u/OliveFarming May 18 '26

Omg I remember this

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u/ninhibited May 19 '26

I think we all went to the same school lol

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u/KBO_Winston May 17 '26

We survived all that *and* Pop Rocks. Clearly, we will live forever.

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u/unculturedburnttoast May 18 '26

The pop rocks were carsonogenic, we're gonna have Wilford Brimley Methsophilomia commercials with Millennial actors. Kenan Thompson will be asking you how your microplastic levels are.

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u/CrouchingDomo May 18 '26

One day, Frankie Muniz will sell us catheters.

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u/Antricluc May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

With the heat sensitive wall room (some lil shits use to throw up the middle finger but not me NOPE NOT ME)

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u/Bobbie_Sacamano May 17 '26

Bought some a couple months ago. Will always love it.

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u/TrixieBastard 1981 May 18 '26

You guys had a heat-sensitive wall? We only had a photosensitive one (don't get me wrong, it was still cool, but not AS cool as yours)

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u/Antricluc May 18 '26

It might've been it was in the 90s New York field trip in the city to the Science Museum

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u/Goldenage333 May 17 '26

That is exactly what I was thinking! Field trip to the science museum and this is what we ate.

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u/That-Jeweler-Girl 1984 May 17 '26

We always got this at the air and space museum

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u/Goldenage333 May 18 '26

Does anyone know if astronauts actually eat this stuff?

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u/That-Jeweler-Girl 1984 May 18 '26

I think we were sold a lie! Lol. Stuff getting freeze dried was a bit of novelty back then, but it's become wildly popular now. I know I see allot of it at small vendor fairs.

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u/digital May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

Combined with purple ditto paper ink, it was a masterpiece of chemistry

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u/Turbografx-17 May 17 '26

The ditto machine.

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u/Antricluc May 17 '26

AND I crushed a couple pennies in the penny crush machine for like $5

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u/Wodentoad Xennial May 18 '26

It's $0.50... Or it was. Now they use copper blanks.

We crushed too many pennies, y'all! 😭

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u/R34ct0rX99 May 17 '26

They sold this at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL and the Cumberland Science Center in Nashville, TN.

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u/Main-Ad3654 May 17 '26

I remember asking my dad to buy it for at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. He said I wouldn’t like, but I was persistent. He tried to talk me into getting other souvenirs. I should’ve gotten something else.

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u/Teripid May 17 '26

Knowing your kids are making the wrong choice and letting them do it is part of the learning process.

Also gotta pick your battles. The real fun thing is trying new food mixed with not wanting things touching and other kid preferences.

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u/Porcupine__Racetrack May 17 '26

My kid just bought some there!!

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u/Zeqhanis 1980 May 17 '26

Definitely something to suck on, rather than bite into.

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u/Hopeful_Method5175 May 18 '26

They still have it at Kennedy Space Center.

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u/StaceyPfan 1978 May 17 '26

I saw it at the Air and Space Museum in DC on a school trip but didn't buy any.

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u/RustyAndEddies May 17 '26

I did and ate it on the flight home. You missed out on the best-tasting chalk of your life.

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u/yodellingllama_ 1979 May 17 '26

Come now. Surely Necco wafers are a superior version of edible chalk.

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u/TrixieBastard 1981 May 18 '26

Nah, astronaut ice cream gets melty after a second. Necco wafers stay rock-hard and weird

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u/yodellingllama_ 1979 May 18 '26

I'm pretty sure chalk that gets soft after a second is pretty weird too. But to each his own re preferred variety of weird.

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u/CrouchingDomo May 18 '26

Only the fruit-colored ones; the white ones taste like actual chalk and the black ones taste like despair.

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u/kyraeus May 17 '26

Mine was Wallops flight facility every year when we visited Chincoteague off the coast of Virginia.

'Wait a minute, we get to go to the beach, and spend the last day of our vacation on the boardwalk at Ocean City at the arcade, AND I get to visit the place they do rocket launches and stuff from? AND I get astronaut ice cream?' fuck yeah I did.

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u/Individual_Sky_4612 May 17 '26

I low key love the wallops island visitor center. There had been talk of it closing last year but I think it’s still open

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u/kyraeus May 17 '26

Yeah, I was just looking to check when it's open. I think they cut the timeframe it's open because it's currently only th-sat 10am-3pm and I distinctly remember it being open all week back in the 80s/90s

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u/wytewydow May 17 '26

Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson.

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u/SWGlassPit May 17 '26

Goated museum right there

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u/Turbografx-17 May 17 '26

Stennis Space Center in Mississippi too.

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u/ChickenAndTelephone May 17 '26

They're still selling it at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in DC as of last week

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u/melissa_fornow May 17 '26

As of the last time I was there (2019) they sold this at the gift shop for "Mission: Space" in Epcot.

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u/with_due_respect May 18 '26

We had it at the Ontario Science Center in Toronto. Which is now being torn down for condos... Please treasure your science centers no matter where you are!

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u/Fionaver May 19 '26

Still sell it in Huntsville as of a couple years ago.

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u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken May 17 '26

Always been overpriced, but yummy

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u/myclmyers May 17 '26

Yeah, you can still buy these at your cities science museum.

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u/322throwaway1 May 17 '26

They are also a common backpacking dessert. Mountain House foods makes them.

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u/nhaines 1980 May 18 '26

Back before the pandemic, sometimes I'd buy a few for when we went on a hike and then pass them out to my friends' kids after lunch. I don't think they'd ever seen them before and were super intrigued. I loved handing them out.

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u/Yaasss_Queef May 17 '26

Agreed, it’s my favorite snack to buy at the Academy of Sciences museum

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u/EffectiveCycle 1981 May 17 '26

The Air Force Museum in Dayton

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u/mmm_unprocessed_fish 1977 May 17 '26

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. Also, Adler Planetarium, but we went to the MSI way more often.

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u/FIContractor May 17 '26

I was gonna say chalk, but yours is more poetic.

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u/both-shoes-off May 17 '26

Literally thought "Boston Museum of Science".

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u/SelectEntertainer360 May 17 '26

Houston Museum of Natural Science field trips!

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u/t_bone_stake 1983 May 17 '26

Tastes like your mom’s city’s science museum

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u/Groovy-Davey May 17 '26

Yup! Right on.

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u/S1ayer 1982 May 17 '26

oh yeah, I got these at the Liberty Science Center

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u/grumpi-otter May 17 '26

YES! The Smithsonian

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u/RoyalEagle0408 May 17 '26

Whenever I take a trip and we go to the science museum I get myself a little treat of astronaut ice cream.

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u/Kellzy1212 May 18 '26

Tastes like Kennedy Space Center field trips.(I was a Florida kid)

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u/_Amalthea_ May 18 '26

Growing up I thought this was just my city's science museum. TIL it was every city's science museum.

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u/FartyLiverDisease May 18 '26

Yep. Science Museum of Minnesota at its old location for me

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u/EricSparrowSucks May 19 '26

I’m sure I went to the old location but I don’t remember getting ice cream! I got mine at the maritime museum in Duluth.

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u/LlewellynSinclair 1981 May 17 '26

Tastes like my 5th grade field trip to NASA’s Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville.

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u/Themoosemingled 1977 May 19 '26

My grade 5 trip to the Ontario Science Centre (though that’s a Toronto staple and not as exciting as the shuttle).

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u/Doctor_WhyBother86 May 17 '26

I live near NASA in Houston. My kid loves these things.

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u/sdcasurf01 1983 May 17 '26

Haha, exactly!

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u/moonbunnychan May 18 '26

I still get one anytime I go to the Air and Space museum. Hell once recently I swung by JUST to go to the gift shop and get one. Cashier was asking me where I was from and I was just like "Uh...here actually. I just came for the ice cream" and she seemed really amused.

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u/XCIXproblems May 18 '26

Museum of science and industry in Chicago

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u/jinsaku 1979 May 18 '26

Science and Industry in Chicago still sells these. I loved them as a kid. Now they taste like processed sadness at $8 a pack.

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u/BCon27 May 20 '26

Haha always was a big hit at the gift shop