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Published · transcript-backedMary Roach: evaluation
18 Oct 2017 Conversations with Tyler Mary Roach on Disgust, Death, and Danger (Live at Mason)
“No, now astronaut food has gotten a lot better. It tends to be bland because anything spicy and exciting, you get tired of.”
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…But now astronaut food is french fries and mayonnaise? No, now astronaut food has gotten a lot better. It tends to be bland because anything spicy and exciting, you get tired of. So there’s lots of condiment bottles up on the ISS, like hot sauce and Sriracha and pesto tubes, that kind of thing. But it is better. The one that was most popular was shrimp cocktail. Shrimp cocktail in space was almost exactly the same as it was on Earth. There was one astronaut, Story Musgrave, I believe was his name. You got a menu when you’re going up into space, and you check off what you want. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, he just went, “Shrimp cocktail, shrimp cocktail, shrimp cocktail, shrimp cocktail.” [laughter] But Coca-Cola is different in space, right?…
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