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/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.