The Hungarian astronaut goes into space with the sausage of Gyulai
- The astronaut’s menu was compiled by a Hungarian shop in Florida, the Hungarian Deli
- The space office in Houston ordered food
- Foods had to keep their warranty for at least six months
Foods pressed into small tubes, high nutrient food packaged in bags – somehow the average person imagines an astronaut menu. Tibor Kapu, the first Hungarian astronaut However, you do not have to be satisfied with that much, and there will be domestic flavors on the 400 -kilometer -oriented space station menu. The astronaut His menu was compiled by a Hungarian shop in Florida, the Hungarian Deli, and perhaps they were most surprised to see the task.
« The first few calls came from Hungary, » said Mónika Szeréminé Jakab, the owner of the shop, still a little disbelief. – They asked very strange questions, some that traditional customers are not used to. For example, they wanted to know the number of food production and their place of origin to transport large quantities.
Laughing, Monika said that the blood did not become water in their case, and at first they suspected some kind of inspectors could inquire. When he asked if he had this unusual interest, he was told that the customer’s questions would be interpreted. After all answered the many questions and probably went through the filter, they finally received a call from the NASA’s food department in Houston, NASA, to find out that they had to compile a lot of food in the Hungarian astronaut.
« So everything became understandable: it turned out that production numbers were needed, for example, to investigate food, » Monika explained. – The package – which we have already sent to them – included Gyula sausage, winter salami, bags of soups and soup cubes, and Tibor said he would not only eat it, but will taste it with the others.
It was important for food to keep their warranty for at least six months, as the business was only told that the space travel would start sometime in the spring, and NASA did not tell them the exact date. Therefore, they had to pack the products in vacuum.
« We offered to give the products as a gift, but they didn’t want to hear about it, » Monika laughed.
