Space Food Sticks: You're Alive!

This no doubt gives hint to my age, but no less than a half dozen times in the last couple years the subject of "Johnson Space Food Sticks" has come up in conversation—by me, that is. Seems no one remembers these delicious morsels of goodness. So much so that I was beginning to wonder if they were just a self fabricated memory. But I do understand why I've received so many blank stares when I consider a majority of my colleagues were born after 1973—the year Space Food Sticks were introduced.

Space Food Sticks (later called "Food Sticks" after the energy crisis of the mid-1970s when the space program took a back seat politically) were REALLY popular with my schoolmates, and it always seemed like we were as cool as the astronauts when we peeled back the thin wax foil and bit into "a piece of the future." For reference, the term "energy snack" was not yet invented. Anyway, you'll notice I refer to them as "Johnson" Space Food Sticks. I do believe they were cobranded with Johnson Space Center (NASA), but nothing I have found online indicates this.

And if reconnecting with this cool product from the past isn't already enough...get this: they are now available online!! So without further ado, like a lost friend from 30 years past, I bring you...Space Food Sticks!



( special thanks to Eric Lefcowitz at RetroFuture )