Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang has decided to treat his fellow space travellers to dried elk meat
I tried dried elk in Estonia earlier this year. In the middle of Tallinn’s old town is a tourist restaurant that lays on the medieval schtick. You sit at wooden benches, eat with sharp daggers and drink mead. The dried elk itself comes served in a coarse-weave bag tied with a leather thong, the sort of pouch you’d expect to see dangling from Friar Tuck’s waist.
Tallinn Rooftops
The meat was slightly brittle but became chewy if you perservered - and then you’d be able to taste it, which isn’t neccessarily a good thing.
The story from The Local mentions that tastes are not so strong in space
. Is this true? Maybe so. NASA says:
Since people first began eating in space, they have noticed that things taste differently while in orbit. Some astronauts find that their food is bland. Others find that their favorite foods don’t taste good. And, some astronauts enjoy eating certain foods that they normally wouldn’t eat. Still, other astronauts say they can’t tell any difference at all.
and apparently there are several theories including a sense of stuffiness or congestion cause by blood spreading evenly around the body, and the more prosaic suggestion that the food’s been stored for a long time.
