• Triumph@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    I’m so old that I used to tell this story to people to figure out if they were too young to bother with:

    A friend and I were in a cheap restaurant for breakfast after being up all night. Server brings the drinks we ordered, sets them down, goes about her business.

    “… Hey! This isn’t orange juice. This is Tang. Who does she think we are, astronauts??

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      2 days ago

      Hah, your powers of deduction won’t work on me! For I am young, and not even from the same continent as the USA so Tang never existed here!

      But I know the link between NASA and Tang because I’m a NERD! MUHAHAHAHA (It wasn’t ever actually Tang that flew but rather a NASA concoction, but boy is it good advertising!)

      One particular astronaut was once caught on a hot mic complaining that he was extremely sick and tired of drinking the juice they provided and made them drink in significant quantities during the flight… I’ll leave you to go look the details of what he said and why they insisted they drink so much of it, because I want you to get sucked in to Apollo history too 😈