Gimmicky Food That Never Should've Been Invented

Astronauts are pretty cool. They sit atop massive fire-breathing bombs, get shot into an unending, inhospitable vacuum, and do cool things like hit golf balls and float awkwardly while attached to a hose. So it's not surprising that stuff astronauts use and eat might become of interest to the public, but freeze-dried ice cream? The theory for its development was sound: space is expensive, so reduce the weight and increase the shelf life of this nice food so the astronauts have something fun to eat after they do all that dangerously uncomfortable floating. But on Earth? There's no need to freeze-dry your dessert, especially if doing so makes it even slightly less delicious.
Don't think that this is a long-lost product of the '70s and '80s either, because freeze-dried ice cream is still available by mail order and in museum shops. But the funny thing is, although the product was developed at the request of NASA for the Apollo space missions, it never actually made it onto the rockets ... because it wasn't that popular. The one group it was designed for — astronauts — didn't like it at all, both because it tasted terrible and its crumbliness posed a danger of getting stuck in spacesuits and causing a dangerous disaster. So what chance would it possibly have to be anything more than a misguided gimmick here on land? None, really.
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