Cup musings...

[jay]

As befits a bunch of space cadets, our universal everyday beverage is Tang. It exists by the case, while the coffee and cocoa are gone.

Here on Devon Island we have a fine alkaline dust... probably similar to the playa dust at Burning Man, in some respects.

This dust combines with Tang to leave an orangey-brown sediment on the side of my cup. Three layers now. It is time to change to harder stuff...

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Sounds like they definitely need some help ... that shopping trip gave me the quivers :-)

And what is `Tang', anyhow? (I could look it up, but I'm most interested in what it means to brian1789 :-)

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[sinboy.livejournal.com]

It's an powdered instant orange beverage. Something associated with the space program. I believe astronauts were given Tang to drink during the Apollo missions. I'm not sure, though.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Urk. With added Vitamin C, no doubt, as none will have survived from any initial contact with any actual oranges? :-)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Tang derives from filtered, freeze-dried orange juice... with added sugar, orange coloring and Vitamin C to backfill some of what was lost in processing. Flat-tasting and sugary, not even close to the quality of "real" juice, but it lasts a long time in storage. And was developed as astronaut food, a fact with was used in its advertisements throughout the 1960s and 70s (grin)