hi I'm Josh I'm Molly and today we're
gonna be trying jolly space food space
food well it's not from space
okay it's food that they eat in space
well at astronaut food yeah astronaut
food that's cool and it has been
unbelievably hard to find so first up I
should a reference to remember that
episode we did with Gabi learning Korean
typing how could I forget through that
way absolutely our site yeah saw that
video and sent us what giant frickin
cuddly doll well enough space food
because look like they're from space
they do I mean this guy looks like he's
flying through all right this guy can
for this episode only enjoying the Queen
in the background okay so it's not food
from space it's not food that's been to
space
but it's his food the actual astronauts
eat in space used to oh well that sounds
more ominous basically you can't buy the
food that astronauts eat really what is
it what's our food to eat the
International Space Station is run by
like a coalition of Nations right right
what they realized is food is super
important for astronauts mental health
interesting so millions living in
millions of dollars of the space budget
yeah
goes into providing specific local
delicacies South Korea in 2008 has their
first national on the ISS okay they
wanted to send up a special dish we
gotta send kimchi right space kimchi
easy not easy they spent three million
dollars developing a special kimchi to
go to the space station space kimchi
space did they make it they made it and
I don't have it the things that I was
was able to find that has definitely
been eaten in space okay it's no longer
even in space how bad is it in the early
days of the Russian today's programs for
the first cosmonauts yeah were sent up
in 1961 with tubes of bases
the food paste rammed full of
preservatives a Russian company still
sells the tubes that they send people
out with anyway so I've got a starter
two mains and a dessert starter start me
here we brush washed board I like this
already so it does say recommended to
warm up before use but in space they
didn't used to do that so do they not
know what you can eat it cold we can eat
it cold oh it looks like toothpaste the
first cosmonaut went up had some of this
the second cosmonaut gehrman Tito helm
and some of this vomited first man to
vomit in space no I'll go to 1961 had
some passed it straight up yeah space
sickness I need a bucket smell it and
tell me you don't need a bucket I need a
bucket yeah ray of smell bad honestly
three two one liftoff ignore the smell
you know the smell oh that was genuinely
one of the hardest things I've ever out
is really bad but the toast the taste
it's why really almost I just so much
young I almost went I've never put
anything in my mouth
that tasted more like vomit in texture
but and it was sour
it was so sour as you oughta put it in
my mouth I could smell it through my
hands you see why they put three million
dollars okay so that was a our starter
next up Josh we're moving we're moving
off next what's Nick it is cottage
cheese with sea buckthorn
you are a what oh that looks like nacho
cheese out of a flip juni ready juice
there we go there is no way this is
supposed to look just think of poor old
you again no I can't either
I cannot eat that we're sure this isn't
bad right there's no way it's supposed
to look like that Holly I'm doing it
wait wait wait wait an Emmy wait for me
I'm gonna get it over and done with
I've psyched myself up let's do it
you're insane you're insane
it's it okay okay okay it's okay it's
just different it's different it's just
different it's like really old yogurt
like almost cheese yogurt yogurt
starting to see why this was
discontinued it literally says on the
Wikipedia the astronauts in the in the
later mercury missions dislike the food
that was provided they found that
unappetizing experience difficulty
rehydrated free drive freeze-dried food
and they did not like having to squeeze
tubes or collect crumbs of all the
complaints you have about this food they
did not like to have to squeeze tubes
what on earth
well I surely that's the highlight of
the extreme coming down this having been
an astronaut rock star of the space
program and there's the poro
Timmy who's been stuck in the lab making
these for four years yeah make sure
there's no bacteria in the meals like
did you like my food and they're like
well the cubes protecting his feelings
all right Josh we're moving on to the
main course know we remain all that and
I think this honestly we've ordered some
weird stuff on this you know I think
this is the hardest thing we've ever
what haven't vomited yet so
I just notice these packages say
approved by space our Russian viewers
can be able to read what that says pork
and vegetables in a tube in the chief
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hit me I'm not going to smell that until
I see it oh dear Lord you're an idiot
it's no way I can finish that I reckon
if I held my nose and just swallowed it
without smelling at first I'd be okay
alright I'm ready to be wrong yeah the
whole thing easy Oh yours
okay ready
okay go mince meat fine call it the
textures horrible curry taste it don't
do bad taste is pretty good right go
with it I'll become pretty good yeah it
smells like meat from a sewer I wish
that wasn't a smell that existed all
right so now is the main course
but again the smell is a hundred times
worse than the taste that's the best
tasting is definitely was the best a
semester for pork and vegetables is the
way to go if you're a starving astronaut
in space in Russia and they've only
packed food from the 1960s okay after
this dessert I like how they're
color-coded yeah I'm excited by this
dessert it's gonna be sweet right do you
want to know what it is they're gonna
tell me what it is while you while you
pour out this is cotton why the meeting
so much
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this is cottage cheese and blackcurrant
there's no way it's supposed to be that
liquidy I'm just going to rain my now a
little bit sweet the obsession with
cottage cheese yeah that's true it's got
the it's got the yogurt II smell cheesy
yogurt or final one okay that's it ah
thank you what okay ah texture just
build your mouth like a paste that one
wasn't that bad it does taste like a
yogurt that's been left out of the
fridge for about a week wait should I
get Gabi and see if she's willing to try
one all right copy yeah one who smell
like alcohol here it smells like alcohol
sit down your first tooth baby so you
know how you're a cook you know you like
collecting food experiences from around
the world to try nucleons so we have
collected some old-school Russian
astronaut rations I reckon you should
try either cottage cheese with sea
buckthorn puree or is this borscht why
did they do all the chewing for you new
culinary experiences oh shoot
smells like Juno food we do paid you
know nice if you need to size it up you
can spin to the bucket
what is that just go all in one I mean I
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need to eat it so you can believe a good
eat it and then breathe okay just like
here comes the airplane
oh yeah that one's worse
that's cottage cheese and sea buckthorn
gammy looks genuinely traumatized since
I'm sorry baby
yeah no no
noop noop noop yeah this is like war
some prison food you know all right was
the jelly seen
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