Friday, February 15, 2008

Chips in Space


Got very excited when I saw this packet in a lunch bar the other day. A sign of things to come I thought. Man has come up with the technology to liquefy chips. Chips in a tube if you will, although they appeared to have kicked off the break through with chips in a sachet.
Don’t make the mistake of not recognising the significance of this breakthrough, like the lady beside me who didn’t share my enthusiasm
If you can get chips in a tube, you can send them into space and that is going to revolutionize the spaceman’s diet. This is the kind of news that will get a lot of people thinking about going into space, who, until now, were put off by the lack of good food.

It later transpired that it wasn’t liquid chips, only vinegar and the picture was more of a serving suggestion, probably because vinegar is just brown liquid and not very interesting to photograph.

But, don’t be discouraged space food fans. It’s only a matter of time before they do work out how to put chips in a tube and when they do, food lovers everywhere will begin to think about going where no man prepared to put up with rubbish meals, has been before.