I had a dehydrated ice cream sandwich once. Impulse purchase from the backpacking food section at Scheel’s. It tasted like ice cream and wasn’t bad. It was better if you held each bite in your mouth for a bit and let it “melt”.
Dad went on a business trip once and ended up at one of the space center museums at the peak of The Space Race. (Late ‘60s.) He brought all that stuff home for us girls to try.
I do remember Mom buying Tang once it was commercially available. She fed us a lot of ‘fake food’ back in the day. She loved her Oleo-Margarine that she had to buy in Illinois. ;)
The LUXURY of a frozen TV Dinner, eaten on tray tables while watching Carol Burnett or Wild Kingdom! We knew Dad had hit ‘The Big Time’ in his career when THAT happened. ;) (Mechanical Engineer)