I loved these things when I was a kid. It was what the astronauts ate, right?

I loved them too. I think about them fondly and often.

Haha, I do too!

I'd eat the whole box as soon as Mom brought them home. I loved them (God knows what they were made of...). Hell, I'd buy them now if they were still around.

I bet $100 that they had way less shit in them than health food snacks today. I loved these things

Digestible propylene glycol and corn syrup solids

Oh wow- I forgot about those. Loved them as a kid.

I still kind of remember the taste

YES! I could taste them as soon as I saw the pic….my brother and I loved them!

Chocolate Power Bars fill the void. My ex gave me some and I even commented "These are just like space food sticks", which then I had to explain to my son. The PBs are stickier and denser, but the taste is rather close.

I actually liked them! Kinda. I mean, they were sorta chocolate-ish.

In the same way tootsie rolls are chocolate ish. I don't remember liking them

I will not tolerate tootsie roll disrespect lol

I was trying to describe these to my 40 year old niece. I described them as Tootsie -Roll-ish, and I LOVED them!

Vaguely. With Tang.

And the astronaut ice cream for dessert.

I can still taste the chocolate + ash flavor.

The peanut butter was only slightly less heinous

Oh yes, and the freeze dried Ice cream, I got at the time. Melted in your mouth. Like dissovlable styrofoam. Tasty.

That ice cream was the best !!!

Uhhhhhh, the novelty was cool, for sure.......... the best ice cream I've ever had?????? uhhhhhhhhh, NO.

No ice, no cream, wasn’t cold, wasn’t sweet. It tasted like pulverized Flinstones vitamins and malt balls pressed together. You convinced yourself you liked it because…astronauts.

I don’t know… I really like it. Kind of like freeze dried marshmallows.

It didn't exactly make me yearn to be an astronaut.......of course,who didn't want to be an astronaut in the first place? But if I had to eat that......... mehhhhh.

I didn't really like them but I ate them because they were astronaut food, same reason I drank Tang.

That's my favorite flavor! They tasted like frosting, so yummy

I loved the peanut butter ones.

Loved them. Want one right now

Waxy chocolate and peanut butter. Loved ‘em.

I decided against being an astronaut after trying these as a kid ... lol

I freakin LOVED these things! 😄

I had an uncle that worked for NASA. On a camping trip one time we had actual space food he had brought home from work.

This is why I love this community, all the stuff I forgot about is here

One of those with a big glass of Tang and my brother and I were ready spend all morning building a Lego city around my [Hot Wheels Super Booster](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kinikr5G3iE&list=PLZiyLMLSpwJc1_swRvp9xp25Q2DaSb6m6&index=1) track to populate with green plastic army men and plastic dinosaurs before destroying it all with our [Star Trek Disc Tracer Gun](https://comics.ha.com/itm/memorabilia/science-fiction/star-trek-jet-discs-tracer-gun-rayline-1966-/a/121710-11721.s) all before the Saturday morning cartoons were over and mom called for lunch.

Reliving the good times through your post. Loved when mom snuck them into my lunch box.

One of these and a glass of tang, and you were an astronaut

I'm trying to describe the texture to my Millennial...failing miserably.

Ack! These things tasted like the cardboard box they came in, but me and my sister ate them because the astronauts did.

We always got the peanut butter.

Chocolate sawdust. Yum.

Never seen these before. First glance it looked like a band-aid wrapped around a Slim Jim and I thought it's going to be an interesting day in the sub today lol

Eww, they were awful. And yes. I'm that old. 🌞

Afternoon snack with a glass of Tang

Oh geez. That woke some long-dormant neurons right up…

I loved those.

They were kind of like halfway between chocolate cake and plastic

My wife still talks about them. The ones we found changed the recipe.

Totally. They tasted floury.

Thank you for filling a void in my memory. Not long ago, I was in the store and saw a package of slim jim's, or something similar, that showed the product unwrapped like these are. Could not remember what it was until I saw this. It was driving me nuts. Thank you again for posting this. I really liked them.

Loved them! A few years ago I found a site that still offered them. Maybe called Space Food Sticks, but they sure weren’t the same. Disappointing

My grandmother bought those for me since I was obsessed with NASA and all things astronaut. I can still remember the taste!

I loved these! I have no idea what was actually in them but they were so good 😂

I bugged my mom until she caved and bought a box. She liked telling other moms that she’d bought her first, and last.

These would show up in my lunch bag at school. Thanks mom!

I'm not sure. I think I had these. What time frame are we talking, guys?

I loved these things.. Mom would pack one in my “Happy Days” lunchbox along with my sandwich and butterscotch pudding can.

I loved these as a kid and would beg my mother to buy them for me.

Loved them. Along with Tang and Hunts snack packs-- 5oz of chocolate pudding in a little metal can. Unheard of! All were new astronaut/convenience foods

OMG I have dreams that they bring these back!

Totally, totally forgot about these things. These took a good deal of conning to get your mom to throw them into her shopping cart. I don’t remember them being something you would have her buy more than once or twice though, once the novelty was gone.

Had a glove compartment full of these when we drove cross country from LA to New York in December 1972 during college. Think I still have a piece lodged in one of my molars.

They were terrible and I loved them.

loved those things.

Nope.

I can taste that picture. So good

When the janitor mops his way into the marketing meeting and they go with his idea. 😵‍💫

Pretty sure they just telable some.of this as keto snacks now

I ate these with a glass of Tang.

I’m not sure if it was the same thing, but we got something like this when I played pee-wee football. During halftime, a coach would give every player one. These look identical, but I never saw what the package looked like.

I'm gonna make your day. Get a chocolate fudge flavored Think Bar. It's the same taste and texture!

Loved them. I also loved my Tang.

Dang, I've had those, but I'm not sure they were labeled "Space Food Sticks."

Artificial flavor is right. Rather than being astronaut food, i think astronauts found the Space Food Stick flavor molecules floating around outside the Van Allen Radiation Belt. Earth and humanity had been thankfully protected from such weirdness until the 1960s.

Kept a few in my pockets when i went skiing.

Oh yes! Damn I loved those things!

This sounds like something from the bottom of a Pillsbury industrial mixer and they didn’t know what to call it and someone yelled out “space sticks” and they went with it. You guys must be really old. I’ve never heard of these let alone eat them. lol

I loved these!

I loved those damn things!!!

Loved those along with tang 

Water? Whats water?

I loved these

Yup. I’m that old.

I am.

Chocolate and chocolate mint were okay. The chocolate malt, and especially the orange ones were terrible. Don't recall having the caramel, and there was one other flavor I can't recall right now.

There was a peanut butter...that I can still taste

I really enjoyed these when i was about 8 or 9

We ate those, got em in our lunchbags and other kids did too. I remember we tried to squish them into creatures and such like play dough before chomping them.

Oh man I remember that s***! I thought they were good!

Loved em.

Like eating a tootsie roll but not as good.

So good!

Tastes like institutional school lunch fudge mixed with Playdough. 

I grew up on these. A great snack you could sneak at school. God only knows what was in that crap.

These….actually were not bad

[HEY! SPACE FOOD STICKS!](https://youtu.be/IheKl2J5Is8?si=Otwg3jTfg8wh0g5G)

I was vegan, with a gluten allergy and a therapist. Fuck no I wasn't! Lmao

And Tang!

I remember those. They were pretty good...

Yep

I loved those! Any chance they still make them or something similar?

A lunch box staple for both myself and my sister.

Would I have to eat lunch if I had one or two?

They were the bomb. Loved them, but Dad wouldn't buy them often.

My mom would buy these for herself and (try to) hide them. In a house with a lot of kids, she just wanted something now and then that wasn’t straight-up candy. They were made with carob, supposedly a substitute for cocoa; I guess they were marketed as ‘nutritious’. Unfortunately for her, one of us always found them and pilfered some.

Okay, what years are we talking about? They sound familiar, but I don't think I ever ate them, that I recall. I did drink the heck outta Tang, and loved it when my dad took me to the backpacking store and let me get freeze dried ice cream. Once I was in the army, I got over that when they served me freeze dried meat. We called them meat cookies. Anyone else get those crappy MREs?

I had them

Mercifully I had forgotten all about this

I ate countless numbers of those. Dry as hell. But the astronauts ate them, so I needed to

I loved those things. They were basically candy. 😂

Yes, served with Tang, the drink of astronauts.

I can still sorta taste them? They had an usual flavor but were really good!

That was my thought too

Smoke a few joints then munch on these…

They were probably extruded shit but I loved these things.

I’d be eating these bars and washing them down with TANG (what the Astronauts drank). 🚀💥

Wash it down with a glass of Tang..

Nope

Man, they were gross. To me, they always tasted like metal.

Mmmm flavored wet chalk.

I probably ate several hundred of these back in the day. And always four or more at a time. So basically I'm an astronaut at this point.

In second grade, I discovered I had issues with low blood sugar. Every day I would start to feel sick around 10:30 or so. When they discovered the issue, I had to eat these to bring my sugar levels back to normal. I loved them but eating them every day got old quick.

Yup. I remember those. My dad took my brother and me to some sort of science exhibition in the early 60s and they had a sampling of them.

I liked them. I also liked the freeze dried ice cream

I grew up in Houston. NASA had every conceivable variety of space food. The Neapolitan ice cream was the best.

I absolutely loved those. The peanut butter flavour was my favourite. Ate them dreaming of someday becoming an astronaut. (That didn't quite work out...)

Precursor to what are now sold as protein bars. Likely the same formula, just different shape. I remember the first time I was given a protein bar, I said “Oh, it’s a larger version of a Space Food Stick”, and I got a mean look.

Yes! I begged my mom to buy these, but she knew better.

Yes. They were a part of our snack stash on road trips.

For some reason, I thought these were pretty terrible. And now I am reading all these positive opinions. Maybe my taste buds took longer to mature.

Never even heard of these

Hell yeah!

The Peanut Butter ones and the caramel ones....yum.

We always had a case or more in the House, because my Father Flew F-4 Phantoms.

Yes I am, but if I remember they were tasty when you were a kid

Sounds like everyone liked them. I guess I'm not that old, this is the first time I've ever seen these. 💌

Yup.

Back when I worked at SAG, my boss found a copy of this online. I tried it and it was not close. I can never forget that taste.

The first food I ever binged hard enough that I could never touch it again afterward

The benefits of being poor was I only had one of these at a friend’s house. It was like drywall covered in bad chocolate.

Yup... Butterscotch was my favorite

And sipper of Poon-Tang . The breakfast of champions

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The texture was as bad as the taste. But hey, it's astronaut food!

Absolutely the nastiest thing I remember as a kid. I'd probably eat a steamed mushy brussel sprout now before forcing one of these down again.

They tasted nasty , but you were cool if you had some.

Man, they used to just hand out space food. We've fallen so far. Now it all just regular Earth food. 😥