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Eating in space is incredible because you can play with your food.
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You can float your food away from you and fly into it and go get it, or you can have someone throw food to you.
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I played with my food every chance that I got.
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We would just open up a bag of Raisinets and let them float in front of our faces and we would...
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And then water bubbles and M&M's and make a very cool science experiment, where you're throwing M&M's and there's a water bubble and they migrate around the top of the water bubble.
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Liquids in space is a lot of fun because you make this water bubble grow and grow and grow.
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You detach the straw from it and then you float over and you (slurps) suck the water bubble.
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So the museum gift shop freeze-dried ice cream is not something that we have in space.
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We have these different types of thermally stabilized and irradiated food so that the food can last for a long time in space.
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Because if you take fresh food up there, it will start to get stale in space or start to mildew or mold.
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My favorite food in space was, I think, the beef brisket, and then we had macaroni and cheese, we had, um, string beans with almonds, which had a nice flavor.
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And then the smell was pretty much the same, but some astronauts' taste buds get desensitized to the taste, and so they want more spices.
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And we have pepper, and we have salt, and we have hot sauce and things that we use for our meals.
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I think the best part of eating in space was having this meal with a community of people from around the planet, some of which we used to fight against.
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And so, people are all convening, you know, breaking bread while we're floating in the galley in the midday.