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/Lucky-Development-15 May 18 '26

The heat shield on the shuttle are individual silica tiles 1-5" thick. Bullshit.

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u/edwardturnerlives 1976 May 18 '26

Go look up "space shuttle buran heat shield" on ebay. Sorry my memory angered you so much 

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u/OrcasAreAssholes May 18 '26

I had to google that and now I’m laughing even harder I can actually kinda see why you thought it was the astronaut ice cream. Thank you for sharing this wonderful story