We spent the day enjoying our time at the Kennedy Space Center. What does that have to do with chocolate?

Apparently the astronauts need their chocolate fix too. Or, at least, the marketing department is quite active in its desire to have us think so.

First of all, our kids had to get some freeze-dried ice cream. You know that's official "space food," originally developed for early Apollo missions.

Apparently the ice cream is real, but it is frozen and then vacuum dried. We tried two different flavors; cookies & cream and chocolate / vanilla / strawberry. Both of these have chocolate in common.

The cookies & cream version was like an ice cream sandwich having two chocolate cookies with the ice cream between.

It's actually amazing how good these products taste. I guess that anything with enough sugar is bound to taste good!

We tried another product too, "Space Food Sticks.". The best way to describe this is like a fluffier version of a large Tootsie Roll. It was apparently "developed for the U.S. space program."

Bryn seems to remember eating these as a child. I don't remember these sticks at all.

All of these products contain cocoa. The sticks also contain cocoa butter and chocolate flavor.

Websites for these sites are www.luvyduvy.com and www.spacefoodsticks.com.

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Jeffrey Kirk

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Jeff enjoys pairing chocolates with wine and helping to find those flavors that work great together. He is not a chocolate expert, but runs the business side of the operations while Bryn eats all the good stuff.

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