They came in little, narrow, paper-foil packages.
Astro-sticks? Astronaut sticks? The name escapes me,*
but I remember my brother and me tearing them open
and biting into them with glee. Chocolate or peanut butter flavor,
like an imitation of an imitation of the real thing.
The chewy things didn’t taste very good, really,
but we loved them, loved imagining the astronauts eating them
above us in space. So much cooler than tuna casserole!
I cringe to think of the polysyllabic ingredients they must
have contained. We didn’t care.
* A Google search revealed that they were, in fact, Space Food Sticks, by Pillsbury.
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