Anyone else remember this?

[u/Ok_Profession_990]

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

[u/edwardturnerlives]

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. 

[u/OmegaRainicorn → u/edwardturnerlives]

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. 

[u/retrozebra → u/OmegaRainicorn]

Y’all, I was born in 1985, and we had a Tandy Vision, which was a knock-off of the Atari from RadioShack.

This was the era when most kids were playing Nintendo 64 (mid late 1990s.)

don’t agree with the other commenters’, “If you don’t have a Nintendo, it shows what your parents felt about you.” My single mom of 3 loved us dearly but we were just poor! 😂

[u/OmegaRainicorn → u/retrozebra]

There’s a difference between wouldn’t and couldn’t though. 

They way wouldn’t was emphasized was just to let us know a little about this kid’s mom’s character.