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Topic: Butterscotch pudding on the Apollo 11 menu
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Gordon Eliot Reade
Member Posts: 250
From: California
Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 08-11-2023 05:19 PM
   
As a boy I read that the Apollo 11 crew ate butterscotch pudding on their way to the moon. Even as a ten year old I knew the only proper pudding were; chocolate, vanilla, tapioca, banana and strawberry. No one I knew ate Butterscotch Pudding so why was it on Apollo 11? |
CJ
Member Posts: 80
From: Cherry Hill, NJ
Registered: Nov 2003
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posted 08-11-2023 09:48 PM
Simple, Butterscotch pudding tasted good. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 50922
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-11-2023 10:18 PM
If you look at the Apollo 11 crew menus, you'll see butterscotch was just one of the pudding flavors aboard. Take, for example, days 1 through 5 for Neil Armstrong. He had butterscotch, chocolate and banana pudding. Though that said, he had more of the butterscotch than the other flavors. |
Gordon Eliot Reade
Member Posts: 250
From: California
Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 08-11-2023 11:03 PM
The pineapple fruitcake was a good call. Ernest Shackleton took fruitcake with him on his expeditions to Antartica. It had a long shelf life and the sugar content and flavor boosted both energy and morale. In fact it could be said that pineapple fruitcake helped Shackleton bring his crew back home without the loss of a single man. |
Jonnyed
Member Posts: 606
From: Dumfries, VA, USA
Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 08-12-2023 12:02 PM
As a kid in the late 1960s, we used to get Hunt's Snack Pack puddings in actual medal cans to eat pudding at lunch, etc. As I watched the moonlandings live, I like to think of the astronauts eating the same snack pack puddings that I loved. Of course, TANG was another connection. The Space Age was a good time to be a kid...what wonder! |
Gordon Eliot Reade
Member Posts: 250
From: California
Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 08-12-2023 12:49 PM
Hunt's Snack Pack puddings, Thank you for that Jonnyed. I remember that quite well but it would seem that after half a century my memory is not what it once was. For some reason I remembered them as being "Motts" and not "Hunt's." I'd been searching the web but with no luck. I've found that Hunts still makes Snack Pack pudding but they now come in little plastic cups. As a boy I too carried them to school in my lunch bag. I loved all the flavors except one; Butterscotch. To paraphrase Snoopy, Butterscotch pudding would not be eaten by a starving cat in a life raft. |
Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1827
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 08-12-2023 03:08 PM
Quite wrong. It is used in many things and is a main ingredient in monkey bread. quote:
Originally posted by Gordon Eliot Reade:
No one I knew ate Butterscotch Pudding...
Butterscotch was very common (more than strawberry) and proper flavor. Jello has it as one of its prime flavors. I remember it from the early 60's. quote:
...pineapple fruitcake helped Shackleton
It must have been the same fruitcake, according to fruit cake legend. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3618
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 08-14-2023 11:36 AM
I was introduced to butterscotch (in the form of hard rectangular blocks that fitted very tastily into a 7-year-old mouth) in or about 1962. The taste was absolutely wonderful. Sadly, the company which produced it (Callard & Bowser) is long gone, but butterscotch "candy" is widely available in other formats. Neil Armstrong, unsurprisingly, had great taste! |
Gordon Eliot Reade
Member Posts: 250
From: California
Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 08-16-2023 06:18 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Jim Behling:
It must have been the same fruitcake...
There may be some truth to that. Not all of the Apollo 11 fruitcake was consumed in flight. Some of it returned to Earth still sealed in its original airtight packing. This fruitcake ended up in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum. As for the pudding, all that came back were empty tins. |
Captain Apollo
Member Posts: 350
From: UK
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 08-21-2023 05:37 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Blackarrow:
Sadly, the company which produced it (Callard & Bowser) is long gone...
Apparently a company called Champion and Reeves have revived the Callard and Bowser products. |
Gordon Eliot Reade
Member Posts: 250
From: California
Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 08-23-2023 10:56 AM
I humbly suggest that NASA place a pineapple fruitcake in the Artemis II spacecraft. If it's returned to Earth uneaten it could be added to the collection of the National Air and Space Museum and displayed alongside the Apollo 11 fruitcake. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3618
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 08-23-2023 11:22 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Captain Apollo:
Apparently a company called Champion and Reeves have revived the Callard and Bowser products.
Mouth-watering flavours... at eye-watering prices! |
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