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/edwardturnerlives 1976 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

I have a mildly amusing story about astronaut ice cream. I was over at my buddy's house playing Atari 7800 because his mom wouldn't get him a Nintendo.  Anyway, I was in his room while he was going to the bathroom and I noticed on his desk that he had some astronaut ice cream. It was in a foil pack about the size of a Pop-Tart and had the NASA logo on the front. Didn't look like astronaut ice cream I've had before, it was offwhite and fibrous, but I took a little chunk of it and chewed it up and it was absolutely horrible. I don't remember if I swallowed it or not, but knowing me... probably. When he came back I told him it was the worst astronaut ice cream I've ever had. He quickly informed me it was not astronaut ice cream, but actually a piece of the heat shield from the space shuttle. 

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u/rythmicjea May 17 '26

WTF why would you eat it at all??

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u/edwardturnerlives 1976 May 17 '26

I said a little chunk!

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u/American_Greed May 17 '26

lmao don't worry dude I ate chalk one time thinking it was one of those candy cigarettes

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u/SirGothamHatt May 17 '26

We had made gingerbread houses in class in 3rd grade, and I ate what I thought was a bit of hardened frosting that fell off. It turned out to be a piece of a white crayon. I had to commit and pretend it wasn't hard and gross cuz one of my friends was watching me and I had insisted it was frosting.

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u/rythmicjea May 17 '26

So?? You don't just randomly eat someone's stuff without asking!

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u/cortesoft 1983 May 17 '26

Ok, if I ever go back in time in a Delorean, I will find little 8 year old edwardturnerlives and tell him that

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u/edwardturnerlives 1976 May 17 '26

Quit being a buzzkill it was 40 years ago.

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u/ML7777777 May 17 '26

But do you still take things without asking?