Monday, August 01, 2005
I hope they don't get a headache
Like the Japanese tourist who packs a suitcase full of noodles and snacks for his trip abroad for fear he wouldn't like foreign food, astronaut Soichi Noguchi also brought some instant ramen with him aboard the space shuttle Discovery. The ramen was developed by Nissin Food Products, the same company whose founder Momofuku Ando invented instant noodles back in 1958. It comes in vacuum-packed pouches and four flavors: soy sauce, miso, pork and curry.
There are a few differences between the shuttle ramen, dubbed "Space Ram" and the earth version. To make the food easier to consume in zero gravity, the noodles are formed into bite-size balls and the soup is made thicker than usual. They also tweaked the ingredients slightly so that the noodles cook properly at 70C which is the boiling point of water on the shuttle. Finally they made the ramen even spicier than on Earth, as foods generally tend to taste more bland in space -- probably by just adding a lot more MSG.
Air travel sure isn't what it used to be. You fly first-class hundreds of thousands of miles, and all you get for dinner is a 50-cent Cup Noodles.
- posted by Woofwoof @ 10:48 PM
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So, in space, no one can taste ice cream? (Sorry, lame Alien reference). I still miss Tang. I think.
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