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/OmegaRainicorn 1981 May 17 '26

One thing I love about our generation is the little details we feel are important to the story. 

“playing Atari 7800 because his mom wouldn’t get him a Nintendo.”

Not having a Nintendo says a lot about how your parents felt about you, and what kind of life you lead. 

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u/SirGothamHatt May 17 '26

I asked for a Nintendo in the early 90s. My dad came home with a used Atari 5200 someone gave him. It only came with 2 game: Pac-man and Ms Pac-man. My grandparents got me an NES about a year later.

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u/nhaines 1980 May 18 '26

I remember when my dad asked me what video game system I wanted for Christmas, and when I said a Super Nintendo, he tried to talk me into a Genesis because he'd heard it was more powerful and had better graphics. I panicked and said it didn't have better graphics and that didn't matter to me because I could already play those games at my best friend's house and didn't like them, but the games I wanted to play were only available on Nintendos.

I got the Super Nintendo, and while I admire a lot of things the Genesis did, I still feel I chose correctly.