INTERPLANETARY CRAVINGS

Sweetening The Idea Of Traveling To Mars: Nutella

CAPITALIZING ON CLEVER, The Atlantic‘s MEGAN GARBER sweetened a story about simulating dining on Mars with Nutella.

To wit:

So what did the researchers — and the people who suggested recipes for them to try out — come up with? Lots of stuff involving Spam, for one thing, including a Cajun jambalaya and a dish that married the canned meat with curry and fried noodles. A chicken-spinach-enchilada soup, for another. Seafood chowder, for another. And borscht. Freeze-dried fruit, too, they found, was surprisingly similar in taste to fresh produce. As for comfort food — crucial when it comes to the combating-food-boredom aspect of things — a universal hit was … Nutella. “It’s something we craved,” team commander Angelo Vermeulen told the AP. “We had a limited supply so we had to ration it.”

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