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[i]The Space Food Stick also began life as a military washout. What the Air Force called "rod-shaped food for high-altitude feeding" was originally intended as food that could be poked through the port of a pressure suit helmet. "We couldn't get them stiff enough," O'Hara told me. So Pillsbury took back its rods and went commercial with them. Bourland says they occasionally went up with the astronauts simply as an onboard snack - sometimes under the name Nutrient-Defined Food Sticks and other times as Caramel Sticks, fooling no one.[/i]
[i]The contraband Wolfie's sandwich violated no less than sixteen of the formal manufacturing requirements for "Beef Sandwiches, Dehydrated (Bite-sized)."[/i]
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