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Frozen snacks at -40°
Now, about that freeze dried ice cream cookie [1] I bought [2]. It's frozen
to -40° (at which point both the Fahrenheit and Celcius scales intersect),
then vacuum-dried, at which point, you no longer need to refriderate the
thing. It's also very light, at an ounce of weight.
Eating it is a very odd experience. The cookie portion tastes like any thin
crumbly cookie, but the ice cream is like eating a very fine, crunchy
styrofoam, although it tastes much better than styrofoam, and it doesn't
really look like styrofoam or have the consistency of styrofoam, but that's
the closest thing I can think of. A tasty and very fine crunchy foam.
It wasn't that cheap though—$4.00. Oddly enough though, it's actually made
down here in South Florida, just off Hillsboro Blvd at a place called
LuvyDuvy Corporation [3]. They don't sell individual items though (unless you
want 100 or more units). For that, you need to buy it [4] at a place called
Mountain House [5], which is out of Oregon. There, it would only cost $2.65
(so I'm guessing it would be fairly cheap to buy 100 units from Luvy Duvy).
Heh. I find it amusing that I have to buy the freeze dried ice cream cookie,
a product of a South Florida Company, from an Oregon company who ships it
back across the country. And cheaper than if I get it from the Kennedy Space
Center [6], which is just up the coast.
[1]
http://www.thespaceshop.com/coandcricecr.html
[2]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2008/03/16.1
[3]
http://www.luvyduvy.com/
[4]
http://www.mtnhse.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=57525&Category_Code=MHSP
[5]
http://www.mountainhouse.com/
[6]
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home/
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