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Food in Space
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:44 pm
by Bobby42
Far sight better than Tang and that squeeze-tube paste shit.
But, forget about the gourmet stuff. Bring me a Donato's "works" pizza or some KFC extra-crispy or a Big Mac.
And, what's wrong with a Miller Lite if consumed in moderation?
Only concern would be the chicken bones floating around in zero-g. That just wouldn't be acceptable.
PARIS (AFP) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have been feasting on experimental gourmet food designed by top French chef Alain Ducasse, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported.
Ducasse, working with ESA and France's National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), created special dishes that could be used for "celebratory meals" for long-term missions in space.
Last Sunday, the ISS crew got their first taste of the five-star offerings, which were packaged in tins and prepared to strict hygiene standards, ESA said in a press release. All the crew had to do was heat the tins in the ISS' oven.
The main dishes included quails roasted in Mardian wine, red tuna with candied Menton lemon, "Riviera-style swordfish" and a confit of breast of duck with capers.
The side dishes included sand carrots "with a hint of orange and coriander" and "a light puree of celery with a hint of nutmeg," ESA said lyrically.
For dessert, Ducasse came up with semolina cake with dried apricots, apple fondant pieces, rice pudding with candied fruit and a "space" version of a cake called far, which originates in France's western region of Brittany.
German astronaut Thomas Reiter, who arrived aboard the orbiting outpost five months ago, said the food was exquisite, and pointed out that good meals provided astronauts with an important morale boost.
"Food is something which gives us a break. It is something where we find some joy and we are really trying to take some time for our meals," said Reiter.
He regretted, though, one missing item: "It would taste much better if we had some wine with it as well!"
Ducasse's menus contrast with the first food consumed in space by Soviet cosmonauts and US astronauts around 45 years ago, which were fruit compotes and other bland mixes squeezed out of aluminium tubes like toothpaste.
The culinary range aboard the ISS is due to extend next week, when Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang, scheduled to be taken aloft aboard the US space shuttle on December 7, will bring a box of Scandinavian delicacies.
They including dried moose meat, crispbread and gingerbread biscuits, a traditional Swedish snack at Christmas.
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:52 pm
by bbqjones
nice offering bobby, pretty funny if it werent that all of us posting here have the internet and have the ability to post links to non interesting stories. i was going to link you to a story in rhode island that had something but not really worth talking about and then i read your post. i feel sorry for you and hope the reindeer get you. btw, theyre all faggots.
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:10 am
by Yukon Cornelius
Stay with me and we'll all be rich with the biggest silver strike this side of Hudson Bay.
SILVER!!
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:14 am
by MgoBlue-LightSpecial
Bobby - would it kill you to try and develop just a little personality?
Can this shit thread.
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:43 am
by Diego in Seattle
Where's the love?
Sin,
Space Sticks
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:57 am
by Wolfman
zero G has to be a very "strange" environment
for the length of time the astronauts live in it---
we might experience it for a brief period on a roller
coaster or on a plane flight when the bottom drops out
from you---
gotta be particularly a problem with women given
thier urinary biology--
I'm guessing alcohol intake could cause problems in
the zero G/pressurized ecosystem !!
Of course food that produces a lot of crumbs/particles and spray would be a no-no !!
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 1:17 am
by Atomic Punk
Wolfman wrote:
Of course food that produces a lot of crumbs/particles and spray would be a no-no !!
Can you imagine him being up there?
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 1:28 am
by Luther
As a teenager, I came home one day and asked my mom what we were having for dinner. I don't remember what mom said but I responded with one of those smartass, two fingers to the throat, in the universal sign for gagging. My dad backhanded my forehead so hard that even TVO would agree that the "head going back came from the grassy knoll". I swore I was weightless.
Rip City
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:55 am
by Mikey
Why don't they just use the replicator?
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:58 am
by Rudolph
If Booby starts a thread, and Wolfman, Luther and Diego post in it does a reindeer shit in the woods?
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 5:17 am
by Blitzen
You know, I don't get down here that often. Santa keeps us pretty busy on the treadmills in the off season. Then with all the fertiziling the fields in the spring and building crop circles in the fall I don't have a lot of time to dink around on the internet so someone please remind me. Did Bobby42 always suck this badly?
Somewhere in my memory I almost remember that Bobby used to have an occasional take that belonged to him and didn't suck. How many surviving brain cells do you need to find news stories on the goddam internet and repost them on a message board? I bet that horse-looking chick from that boxing movie with Clint Eastwood could have put together 3 posts/day at least as good as this one.
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 5:31 am
by Rudolph
Booby needs to hang himself, like that carnival slut in Tejas.
Nobody's interested in reading about TANG, unless it's poonTANG. Am I right?
I am.
Wakey wakey the fuck up, Bahhh bahhh black skin.
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 5:51 am
by Blitzen
Rudolph wrote:
Nobody's interested in reading about TANG, unless it's poonTANG. Am I right?
Well...yes and no. NoCal just posted in another thread.
Everyone vomit in 3...2...1...
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:15 am
by Jack
The title of this thread reminded me of ..
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Pigs in Space[/font]
When last we left the spaceship Swinepork, the ship had developed a severe list.
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:28 am
by Dancer
The only thing I really remember about Droopy42 is the fact that he keeps asking for Levitra for Christmas and it never happens. Now that I've read over a few of his posts, it's evident that his crank isn't the only thing about him that's lame.
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:08 pm
by Bobby42
Following blunt impact with axe handle or other suitable device, including a Ford pick-up truck;
the fitting meal during cold winter nights.
Reindeer Stew:
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 pound reindeer meat cubed
2 tablespoons cooking oil
1/4 cup chopped onion
1 cups carrots sliced
2 1/2 cups potatoes cubed
3 1/2 cups beef stock
Flour meat and brown in hot oil. Add stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat cover simmer one to one and a quarter hours or until tender. Add vegetables. Cover and simmer 30 minutes. Skim fat. Makes four servings.
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:44 am
by Blitzen
Good memory, Dancer. I'd forgotten about Bobby's limpy the elf.
Booby is the only person I know in real or cyber life that opens emails from 1XLUYN titled Unlimited erections ALL NATURAL no sideffects $5/month!!!!!!1 and thinks "Holy shit no way! It's about fugg'n time!"
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:30 am
by XXXL
Good day for the Bruins...
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:41 am
by Blitzen
XXXL wrote:Good day for the Bruins...
Good lookin' out, fatty. If you have any more editorial comments, feel free to post them in the music forum.
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:09 am
by Slasher
you all just a bunch of racists.
I'm clean. Now.
and dem reindeer my bitches.
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Nicole do you feel me?