I really, really like it. Does anyone else?
Back when I used to visit Daytona Beach (and before I knew Auto-X, the magaizine existed) I used to get gallons of freshly-squeezed OJ from a place called Davidsons, or maybe Davies. I wish I had a pipeline to my house from there.
I grew up in the Apollo 11 era and that stuff was everywhere. My Mother would not buy it. Nor kool aid.
Weren't there some food sticks too?
or this is some sick type of joke and I am not picking up on the code words?
ZOO wrote: I really, really like it. Does anyone else?
Ted Nugent does.
In reply to pete240z:
No sick joke (unless I don't get it, either :)).
My parents NEVER bought anything processed. No kool-aid, no store cereals, nada. Hippies, they were -- made their own bread and all that. My mother halved the sugar in every recipe she baked. When she made chocolate chip cookies, my sister and I would fight over the chocolate chip.
Maybe my love of Tang is a response to that.
ZOO wrote: My mother halved the sugar in every recipe.
The first time I tasted full strength Kool Aid I was floored. My mother too skimped on sugar in recipes.
If you bought presugared lemonaide mix and it called for five scoops, she used two. Yeah, she was kind of a hippie too.
pete240z wrote: Weren't there some food sticks too?
I totally remember those. The ones I remember the ones I tried had a peanut butter taste. I have never seen them since.
Try hot Tang. Pretty good! Learned about that in Artic Aircrew Survival Course in Alaska when I was a helicopter Flight Engineer there. Of course maybe it was just cold (-40F) and anything hot tastes good. 
Seiously I tried after I got out of the course and it hit the spot.
Damn, I'm going to have to find some now! I used to love that stuff as a kid!!!
I'd always add EXTRA sugar whenever I'd make it or Koolaid. I drank so much Koolaid as a kid that I saved up all the points off the packs & had almost every freebie they offered: the walkman, pitcher & mugs, rc-car, fanny-pack...you name it.
IN boyscouts we used to throw the powder into the fire to make pretty colors shoot out.
Yeah I like fire.
We drank Tang for a short while during the Apollo era. Then my mother discovered, through her Pennsylvania connection, Lemon Blennd.
http://www.bobheffner.com/blennd/
I liked grape Tang better than the orange stuff.
wlkelley3 wrote: Try hot Tang. Pretty good!
Is there any other kind?!
jrw1621 wrote:wlkelley3 wrote: Try hot Tang. Pretty good!Is there any other kind?! Of course, wang dang sweet...
wlkelley3 wrote: Try hot Tang. Pretty good! Learned about that in Artic Aircrew Survival Course in Alaska when I was a helicopter Flight Engineer there. Of course maybe it was just cold (-40F) and anything hot tastes good.
Yes! I bring hot Tang on backcountry ski trips -- hits the spot and warms you up!
pete240z wrote: Weren't there some food sticks too?
Space sticks http://spacefoodsticks.com/ I had one box as a kid. Maybe ten or twelve in it. My folks were cheap and where we lived American food was pricey. That box was probably a gift from friends stateside
On the Tang fron. I keep a container of it in my ofice at work. I drink a lot of water and sometimes just get sick of the flavor. mix a batch up and I am good to go. Also aceptable as a mixer for vodka, almost as good as Purplesaurus Rex Koolaid. 
Love me some 'tang.
I used to just eat the stuff out of the jar.
porksboy wrote:pete240z wrote: Weren't there some food sticks too?Space sticks http://spacefoodsticks.com/ I had one box as a kid. Maybe ten or twelve in it. My folks were cheap and where we lived American food was pricey. That box was probably a gift from friends stateside
Oh, man..thanks for the link! I'm not sure I'm ready to eat them again, but I was beginning to think I'd just dreamed it until I saw y'all remembering them too.
And a vote in favor of Tang. My aunt worked at NASA during Apollo, and my 7yr old self insisted upon Tang & Space Sticks in the house.
And Estes rockets, too. Weird thing is, I still fly them when I can find somplace where they'll let me fly...
ZOO wrote: My mother halved the sugar in every recipe she baked. When she made chocolate chip cookies, my sister and I would fight over the chocolate chip.
You win the thread. Congratulations on your prize.
Rice cakes. If we were very, very good we got the carmely ones.
Joey
joey48442 wrote: Rice cakes. If we were very, very good we got the carmely ones. Joey
I used to like the white cheddar ones a lot. But they were dry enough to choke a horse. I stopped liking them and white cheddar popcorn after I had to sit next to a kid in high school that smelled like them and rotting garbage for half a year.
I can't stand Tang. It just doesn't taste right. I guess I'm spoiled by the availability to cheap fresh OJ during citrus season and I get my fix for sweet citrus drinks then.
ZOO wrote: My parents NEVER bought anything processed. No kool-aid, no store cereals, nada. Hippies, they were -- made their own bread and all that. My mother halved the sugar in every recipe she baked. When she made chocolate chip cookies, my sister and I would fight over the chocolate chip.
I am a serious fiend for junk food. If something tastes good, I pretty much eat it until it's gone. Whole pizzas, half gallons of ice cream, etc. have been devoured in single settings. Bread is probably my greatest weakness... I think my favorite meal is a baguette, a few tablespoons of butter, black coffee, an hour, and a book.
I reduce this tendency by almost never buying pre-made junk food. If I want cookies, then well, let's hope I have enough ingredients on hand to whip some up. Cereal is a really sneaky expense; it doesn't seem that expensive, but oatmeal is a third of the cost by weight, and doesn't require milk, either.
I just had a midnight (two o'clock?) snack of jasmine rice with leftover collard greens and blackeyed peas. And hot sauce. I could do worse.
zipty842 wrote: I used to just eat the stuff out of the jar.
Hah! me too. Also powdered milk and/or ovaltine
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