NASA Needs Foodies, Seeks Subjects to Test Space Cooking

If NASA's test foods are anything like US Military MRE's, than forget it! YUCK!!!!!!

120 days inside a tin can? Not for this guy! I'd be bouncing off the walls literally trying to escape!!!!

Let them eat cake.. Honestly.. aside from spiced goo what more do they need? I think they only need yeast on board.. . The powdered loudmouth soup would be a lifesaver.

I sure hope that they serve Tabasco sauce with the meals......

That's what the troops put on nearly every MRE they eat, for flavor, and to make them palatable. Whenever I was in the "field" I had my trusty bottle of hot stuff stowed away in the ALICE. Best stuff to put on the scrambled eggs or the infamous "pork" pattie....

Tabasco!! Yak. I can't stand the stuff. I discovered this when a friend made me a veggie chilli and left out the tabasco. I thought the chilli was delicious (and added more fresh chillis to the top..it's not the heat!). Then he asked me to try the chilli everyone else was eating - it was foul. I said it tasted the way I expected a chilli to taste and that I didn't like it. The difference - no Tabasco in mine.

Tis the work of the devil!!! Along with coffee....

Tabasco is about the only thing you can add to US military field rations (ie, Meals Ready to Eat....MRE) to make them actually edible. Most of the MRE's usually come with a Tabasco packet already included....it's used by nearly all of the troops.

Rose, I take it you don't eat Buffalo-style Chicken Wings or any sort of Tex-Mex or Cajun cuisine there in the UK? I know I know, Indian cuisine is the latest rage there, but it's a different sort of "hot". Good stuff if you can stomach it! LOL

I'm allergic to chicken (vomit on contact) and I loathe pulses - can't abide the texture in my mouth. I'm making that face babies do when they don't like what they're eating even as I type.

I'm not sure I could identify food as Tex-Mex if you put it on my plate! I think the word barbeque conjures up very different images on different sides of the Atlantic (and Pacific, eh masu?).

I was once asked how I survived as a student since I don't eat baked beans and don't drink coffee.

There's a mexican restaurant near here (20 miles away is close...) and I've eaten there. I actually found the food I could eat (i.e. non chicken, gluten free dishes) quite bland, definitely not enough chillis! The refried beans were horrid.

It's the flavour of tabasco, rather than the heat which I don't like.

We have a national chain called Nandos (they may be international, I'm not that interested) that are advertised as Tex-Mex. I went in once but found there was literally nothing on the menu I could eat. Most of it was chicken, what wasn't came with gluten and none of it sounded particularly inspiring. That may be the UK take on Tex-Mex though :o)

I'd like to try Cajun food - sue's always going on about it - but I can't eat chicken and am not fond of fish...but I do love shellfish!

I can't eat Indian anymore <sob> as I can't be sure it's gluten-free. How many restaurants will ensure their spices are GF? Buying it from supermarkets is a nightmare since both Indian and Chinese meals in supermarkets are 99% chicken based. Even the ruddy black bean sauce is a chicken dish, rather than beef!

Restaurant Asian dishes are generally out, since soy sauce contains wheat (tamari sauce is GF). There is a buffet restaurant that for a time would cook me a GF meal to order...yummm. I found out recently there's another Asian (mostly Thai I think) restaurant that advertises as serving GF...so I shall investigate.

Yes I do make some dishes at home, but often I don't have time. I have a fantastic crispy chilli beef recipe....and I found a GF sweet'n'sour to try.

I now tend to add fresh chillis to most of what I cook.