Eating Astronaut Food | Show of the Weekend

Deliver Us Mars arrived on PC and consoles this week, so Ellen decided to Deliver(oo) Us Mars, a.k.a. get us some space food to try. Join us as we taste test totally genuine* Astronaut food.
*food may not be genuine astronaut food. May not even be food to be honest.
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[@Icam_here]

Producer Jon did such great camera work while Luke and Ellen sat there eating space food

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

Like the totally intentional tilting of the tripod

[@toymachine2328]

Then returning to a level course, just to have Luke and Ellen go "Again! Again!"

[@Amaranthyne]

And yet, they are so charming! Just like puppies or kittens, they don’t have to do anything in particular they just have to exist.

[@KieranRichards]

NASA higher ups: "A successful launch, did we provide them with plenty of reading material for this six year mission?" NASA intern: "We provided them with Pokémon magazine"

[@dominateeye]

Every report back to Mission Control starts with "Published by Immediate Media. Not sponsored, it just seems fair"

[@AutieDino]

The thing I love most about Show of the Weekend is the silliness 😂

[@SimuLord]

The thing I love most about both Outside channels is the silliness. :D

[@hopefullyhigh]

Hey theyre real serious adult journalists lol nah yeah

[@MSte21]

Luke earned a formal handshake from Ellen for his pun. Now that's an achievement. Jane being in this one would have been great!

[@Michael_Lindell]

Remember: In space no one can hear you Ice Cream.

[@gruggerduggerhoose]

Puns?! In this economy? How dairy!

[@Michael_Lindell]

@@gruggerduggerhoose Heh, have some Like-tose!

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

I didn't see Ice at first, so my head went a certain place

[@AK.Carcajou]

Boooooo to all of you!😂😂

[@owoden2361]

get out... of the atmosphere

[@CN-Billy]

That “excuse me” after “you’ve just blasted off” floored me. Love SOTW.

[@huppaduppa]

Same with Luke's little "show off" after Ellen mentioned she had very cheap marshmallows

[@NuubiTuubi1000]

So, uh, what was funny about that? English isn't my native language and only meaning I found for "blast off" was a rocket or space shuttle taking off.

[@CN-Billy]

@@NuubiTuubi1000 it could mean a lot of things to be fair. Some are a bit… cheeky. Some are just silly. I don’t know Ellen’s meaning exactly. However, just the way she delivered it was quite funny.

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

​@@CN-Billy Some are silly. Some are cheeky. And some are to protect the world from devastation, to unite all peoples within our nation.

[@Frogface91]

@@NuubiTuubi1000 It could mean farting, it could mean something slightly ruder which is somewhat explosive, and apologising turns the innocent comment into the cheeky one.

[@dallydaydream]

"A third of a shattered Peach" sounds like Luke having a very rough time of it in Mario Party

[@Tea_Sea69420]

"In our relentless pursuit for youtube hits, ......at last Ellen has decided to eat me." Such a funny preintro for this one lmao

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

You'd think it'd be luke eating ellen since he's so much taller

[@mar_speedman]

@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor Luke would never do that!... ... He's pescetarian (thanks Lucario)

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

@@mar_speedman pescetarian. Also, I was trying to reference the Zoidberg meme but did a horrible job at it.

[@dallydaydream]

@@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor I immediately thought of Futurama ^_^ "Why does Luke, the largest presenter, simply not kill and eat the other four?" (Lrr, of the Planet Omicron Persei-8)

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

@@mar_speedman Do we know for a *fact* that Ellen isn't a fish, though? I mean, you might think you know someone, but do you really?

[@chavamara]

When Luke said his tongue stuck to the dehydrated peach, my immediate thought was, "Like a bone!" I swear, it's an actual archaeological practice!

[@typacsk]

I learned that from QI! :D

[@notoriousbmc1]

I never say "Deliver Us Mars" when it come to a box of Celebrations. I've always been more of a Bounty hunter.

[@lauramarschmallow2922]

I had to snicker while reading this. 🤭

[@aegresen]

@@lauramarschmallow2922 Laughing at this comment has put me in a bit of a Twix

[@Joe90h]

I do so love to explore the Galaxy. Caramel.

[@kadosho02]

"This is the Way"

[@SimuLord]

Meanwhile here in the States I have to be jealous of you Brits and your confections while my store just has Hershey bars that taste like sick.

[@lunatimecast6744]

I love how Jon has become part of show of the weekend and not just the guy behind the camera

[@zennihilation]

I literally used to work for NASA as a software engineer and they sold those in our gift shop too.

[@MetharosKM]

Stop cutting out the giggle fits! They're definitely one of the best parts. Y'all are so full of unfiltered joy and good humor and it's why I watch your channel.

[@sambridgett]

Petition for all future Oxboxtra videos to be preceded with Luke's massively unenthusiastic "here comes the content" at 7:26 😆

[@danielblack4815]

I love that show of the weekend is just Luke and Ellen messing around, it’s so fun

[@flyingwithbirbs1202]

"I don't....like that" made me laugh Luke's puns were also on point in this video

[@candacelee6816]

this gives me such nostalgia for when classes would go on field trips to Nasa and the ice cream is the thing that EVERYONE would buy from the souvenir store and subject to all their parents and classmates on the bus ride home.

[@Mike91975]

I've just got back after nearly choking. I made the mistake of eating when Tim Curry came out of fucking nowhere.

[@tildessmoo]

Maybe it's just the American in me, but freeze-dried fruit is awesome. It tastes like fruit, but it's crunchy and kind of dissolves in your mouth. (Though maybe the quality of the initial fruit makes a difference; I've never had the astronaut food other than the ice cream, and they may start with cheaper fruit, relying on the branding to sell product rather than quality.)

[@Tabbyclaw]

I also love freeze-dried fruit, especially peaches. The immediate difference I noticed with this is that these are way bigger pieces than the ones I usually see sold as normal commercial food, which makes a significant textural difference.

[@lukas8670]

Should have asked Jane to do this with them so she could talk about her time at the space academy.

[@coyoteartist]

In the last month I have read a book series where the child on the moon base constantly complains of the irritated and dehydrated food, watched a video about the recently discovered first easter egg in a video game which is a McDonalds on the moon. Now Luke and Ellen are eating Space food. Two more references and I get a Bingo and a longing for Space Strawberries. Always one of my favorites from the science center.

[@kcollier2192]

Having eaten lots of freeze dried items while in the military I can say that eating such food w/o having liquids will result in having your plumbing getting clogged up, if you catch my meaning. Always hydrate when possible before eating.

[@BogeyTheBear]

Having a go at an entire block of the fruit cocktail in an MRE, sans water, is -an experience- a mistake you do only once (because you'll never be able to poop again!)

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

I already have issues with plumbing, so I guess freeze dry food isn't for me

[@marhawkman303]

@@BogeyTheBear yeah, I'm sitting here like: "READ THE SERVING INSTRUCTIONS!!!!"

[@ShadowDancer98]

Reminds me of the stories my dad told me about the hotdogs in an MRE. Or, as he said they called them, "the five fingers of death"

[@marhawkman303]

@@ShadowDancer98 don't be silly..... there's no way you could fit 5 hotdogs into an MRE :p But seriously... never seen a hot--dog MRE.

[@barrybumblecrumpets8977]

Watching a delicious sweet snack crumble into dust like a Cream Tea-1000 is as satisfying as it is unsettling. I feel both weird and hungry.

[@TransGuyShane]

Next time you eat astrofood maybe bring the gangs space queen Jane on board for some taste testing ♡ This was great to watch ♡ Definitely cheered me up

[@heathernicol3026]

Luke’s usually so sweet and he looks so kind and cheerful, it makes it a million times more funny when he says something completely randomly morbid and dark. I am *here* for it. XD

[@expectedwithanoise7225]

Shoutout to Jon’s camerawork this episode. Absolutely hilarious

[@vTempaaah]

laughing ellen is the best thing ever. protect her at all costs

[@Donnerjkks]

We're all convinced she's actually 2 Evee's in a trench coat right?

[@vTempaaah]

@@Donnerjkks honestly if that turned out to be the case, it’d explain why she’s so adorable

[@GarmrKiDar]

@@Donnerjkks doesn't check out. Let's say one Eevee on tall shoes

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

Lol I'm pretty sure they aren't just shoveling chunks of freeze-dried food rocks into their mouths on the ISS. Canadian starman Chris Hadfield even started a taste test and cooking KZbin show when he was up there, and he made a burrito with the audience, and it actually looked really good. (I'm not trying to be sarky. This was a fun video. I just thought I'd share because it reminded me of that.)

[@TonyHoyle]

Around Apollo era it was those packets but times have moved on and astronauts get nice food these days. If you're going to expect them to stay in the ISS for weeks you have to do a bit better than freeze fried potato :p

[@marhawkman303]

@@TonyHoyle Also I have to question whether British people even know what a fresh Peach tastes like. to my understanding their country's weather kills peach trees. By "Fresh" I mean: ate it straight off the tree.... washing optional. Preferably still as warm as the sunlight made it. Refrigerated? Frozen? I mean, if you have to... but best flavor? nothing beats fresh off the tree.

[@gwishart]

@@marhawkman303 Yes, we have fresh peaches in the UK. Poly-tunnels exist.

[@marhawkman303]

@@gwishart hmm....... sounds promising..... Now has Ellen or Luke eaten one? :D

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

@@marhawkman303 Polytunnels? Probably not. Usually you want to eat the stuff growing *inside* of them.

[@jmgriffee]

One of my favorite facts about astronaut food: you can't really take bread into space, since crumbs would be a problem. So they use a lot of tortillas instead.

[@marhawkman303]

well, also, any bread made using yeast is hard to store properly , which is why MRE bread is like a thick squishy cracker instead.

[@jmgriffee]

@@marhawkman303 Valid, but I've heard more than one astronaut cite the crumbs issue. Quote from a blog post from the Kennedy Space Center about food in space, and the ISS in particular: "Did you know that bread is not allowed on the International Space Station (ISS)? This is because it produces crumbs that become unmanageable when floating about the space station. The solution: Tortillas!"

[@marhawkman303]

@@jmgriffee oh, yeah, crumbs are a nightmare to deal with to be sure. And MRE bread is crumby as heck.

[@blakksheep736]

Also bread is nowhere near calorie dense enough for their size and mass.

[@bernard832]

My grocery store sells non-astronaut freeze dried fruit, which are a great way to add fruit flavor to baked goods if you grind them into a powder.

[@dominateeye]

8:43 It's times like this when the phrase "Luke Westaway, Former Senior Editor at CNET" rushes into my head.

[@dominateeye]

Though, to be fair, this is probably more entertaining than anything CNET has ever done.

[@xtieburn]

For those who are interested: You can get pretty close to what an astronaut today actually eats by buying an MRE (Meal Ready to Eat.) AKA a field ration you can get from army surplus and the like.* There are some differences, they have the ability to warm things up on the station so dont need to risk the chemical reaction that cooks field rations, and certain things arent allowed like dry salt, because tiny grains would obviously be a nightmare. It is usually dry, and often needs you to add water both in MREs and in space (and they apparently have different ways of doing that.), but its not like in this video as far as Ive seen. You can get recipes that lock up moisture, have too much salt for microbes, or are just so well packed, cooked, irradiated that they can get away with some moisture regardless. There are plenty of people trying these kinds of foods on youtube so you can see examples. *Ignoring that they get just plain fresh fruit and food each time a delivery pod comes up. (Which has to be eaten first of course.)

[@chriscoombes6751]

Swear you can make Show Of The Weekend about literally ANYTHING, & it's still gonna be the highlight of my weekend every time! Whatever the topic, Lukes jokes & Ellens fits of the giggles are just everything! ☺❤❤

[@danielharvison7510]

I can watch this lot eat spicy jellybeans and have a fantastic time. So they're brilliant people.

[@MegaDale42]

I think Luke has been hanging out with Johnny too much

[@JimmiHoevring]

Well yeah..... If I knew johnny, I'd want to hang around them all day...

[@momotaro37]

As a child, my uncle would bring me uneaten MRE snacks from his weekend National Guard sessions, and I LOVED the dehydrated peaches! To me, they are part of my childhood.

[@sylvrkatk]

As someone who works at a science museum, I can attest that these are the correct reactions to the tastes of these foods. The only one we don't sell is the apples -we have bananas instead. That being said you won't BELIEVE the number of people who ask for the astronaut ice cream on a daily basis. We can't keep it in stock.

[@awkwardghosties1113]

Astronaut content and no Jane in sight, the most astro of the crew! Simply unacceptable.

[@travisspaulding5835]

Thank you Oxtra, for everything you do to your bodies in the name of entertainment

[@JTGallant]

Ellen's giggles are the highlight of many a SOTW, but the one that transforms into a dry cackle at 12:21 really got me good.

[@TopTierKnees]

Ellen and Luke: look at this terrible freeze dried nonsense! Me at 10 years old: *buying this stuff from the science museum gift shop and loving it*

[@toymachine2328]

Children's taste sensibilities frequently seem to be different than adults'. Toaster pastries come to mind, they seem to be quite chalky now, thirty years ago they were delightful and I don't think it's all due to economizing the recipe.

[@sleep9925]

8:16 MAKES ME LAUGH SO HARD. GOD LUKE'S DELIVERY WITH THE THINGS HE SAYS IS SOMETIMES SO ON POINT

[@sleepytime999998]

To people who didn't go to science camp in the 90s, it's like biting into a very tough sponge.

[@johnsharplin]

I for one enjoy drunk Producer Jon. I speak for myself, and only myself, and I accept that

[@jekebe4858]

Luke should just be happy that Ellen didn't slip in a hellpepper flavor surprise.

[@tylermadison6896]

Their Star Trek VR game is still one of my favorite videos. I still rewatch and laugh

[@FCGroningen1987]

Aren't all potato's grown in excrement? Enjoy your fries people!

[@Sableagle]

Cinnamon Apple Wedges? You'd better hope the cinnamon doesn't get loose. Imagine a cloud of cinnamon powder blowing around the ISS and getting all over everything.

[@Sicara91]

I always got the astronaut ice cream as a kid. I remember loving it but I was a kid and things other than taste mattered more.

[@CyanEyed07]

I'm escaping to the one place not corrupted by appletalism... SPICE!

[@MattSkudlarek]

"Just because you're in space, doesn't mean you don't deserve a taste of extreme luxury." Yes, that's right, the spice must flow. ... I'll just see myself out then, yeah?

[@DancertheRose]

SPICE!!!!

[@logansrevenge1214]

Ellen's about to eat Luke... and we all stayed after hearing that. Sick, sick people we are. Wait, Luke's idea was poo potatoes? Eat him, Ellen!

[@BogeyTheBear]

2:58 Shows that need to shake the camera usually mount a clear plate in front of the lens that's two panes of glass sandwiching a transparent gel or flexible filler. You shake the plate to shake the image going into the otherwise stationary camera.

[@EvelynWn]

Look at them pretending this has anything to do with video games. It's adorable 🥰

[@natecunha2795]

"Eaten by astronauts since the Mercury missions." So, the highest quality industrial food of the early 1960s...

[@valiroime]

Space food has come a long way from what was being foisted off on consumers when I was a kid the early ‘70s. We got Tang and Space Food Sticks (no joke, that was the name).

[@dwlr007]

15:57 If you want to stave off scurvy try freeze dried onions. Put them in a bit of water for 5 minutes and they're perfectly edible, easier on the stomach too, fresh onions make me sick without fail, but I can eat the dehydrated versions. Historically onions were a popular choice for ships since onions can be stored for extended periods of time without going bad contrary to the popular media touting citrus to fend off scurvy it was more citrus juice added to the water/rum to help prevent algae from growing in the fresh water rather than the actual fruit being on board the ship since citrus doesn't have a very long shelf life comparatively.

[@niftucalbioticgod2799]

How can you NOT like the strawberry part of a neopolitan ice cream sandwich??

[@stormy7745]

Strong sibling energy in this one! Absolutely loved it xD Space ice cream is my favourite (just be glad it wasn't hashbrowns). Fun fact: your ability to taste in space changes and diminishes

[@ihcfn]

I had freeze dried vanilla ice cream when I was a kid, actually quite liked it.

[@ihaveagun22]

I'm experiencing extreme nostalgia for an elementary school fundraiser where the main reward was astronaut ice-cream

[@Jalinciaga]

“SPICE” I cannot beLIEVE

[@chrono1742]

A bit of a shock that Luke was the source of so many great puns instead of Ellen. That said the Space Odyssey bit was inspired.

[@jamesanthony8438]

I was hoping to see them stand the ice cream sandwich up on its end and take one of their phones to get a low shot of it while singing the space odyssey theme. Would've been so majestic! =)

[@FranFry]

To sum it all up "CRONCH...🤨"...I LOVE💕

[@chrisc1140]

The entire time after the introduction of the ice cream, I just had a series of gradually louder "how DARE you"'s. Neopolitan is great. And while I don't like the icecream *sandwich* part, I love the freeze dried icecream. I always get like, at least 2 or 3 when I go to a museum. One for on the way home. Also best way to eat it isn't to chew, you break it into medium pieces and let it melt in your mouth

[@piwifull]

Remember when this was a show about games? Lmao still love it tho

[@CaitlinRC]

I had astronaut ice cream once, it was surprisingly nice! Then again, there was no excrement involved so...

[@totallyrealcia]

Having eaten these very frequently I can say they never get worse

[@dsmiley53]

I'm very much into space and space-related stuff, and so one Christmas I ended up with some astronaut branded freeze-dried ice cream in my stocking. It didn't even have the sandwich bit, it was just pink-and-white...ness. I made it very to Santa in a strongly worded letter to never do that again.

[@Psysium]

I'm only halfway through this and there are so many delightful quotable bits. Thanks for suffering for our entertainment!

[@therevlimiter7807]

7:24 Here comes the content! 😑

[@marhawkman303]

Maybe next time they'll re-hydrate the food before eating it? :D

[@barbararowley6077]

Freeze dried apple pieces (without cinnamon) are amazing! Highly recommend if you’ve never tried them.

[@CraigJudd]

The spice must flow!

[@theotherjared9824]

Fun fact: astronaut food, and more generally freeze dried food, has actually been deemed unfit for space travel. The reason is that the final product is very brittle and crumbly, which is problematic in zero gravity.

[@jasonthomas6496]

That was fun always love seeing something a bit different

[@VonBlade]

Remembering back to the stated goals on the launch (heh) video on the channel, I wonder if either Ellen or Tall Ellen knew that they'd end up eating freeze-dried food and reading Pokemon magazine.

[@GriffinWolf]

I cannot believe you guys stole Jane's supply of astronaut food! What's she going to eat next time she needs to go to Mars to check on the clone army?? Side note, I'm saddened by the fact that I actually know what the wiggle() expression is.

[@SmallGreenPlanetoid]

I always thought about buying space ice cream as an adult, but never got around to it because my older sister has insisted that "we tried it as kids and it was nasty." That was literally over 30 years ago so maybe I should buy a packet next time I'm at the planetarium.

[@SwaySilva]

That camera shake was surprisingly effective

[@Mr.-V.C-]

i heard that prune juice is good for a show of the "weak end"

[@nemoniemand9264]

I would love some sort of inverse day, where producer John is on camera, and Luke tries his best to follow his mad directions

[@Becktastic01]

sPICe!!!!! Thank you video editor.

[@ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh1]

delightfully unhinged

[@Icyblackkat]

Brilliant musical choices yet again!

[@webgiant7123]

Trivia: Being in space reduces your sense of taste. This has been known since the 1960s, and it is related to a number of factors, including distribution of fluids in your body being different in zero-g. Real astronauts typically have to add *really hot sauces* to their foods to taste anything when they eat, such as Tabasco hot sauce. I've always wondered if a Carolina Reaper hot pepper could be consumed on the International Space Station with relatively little effect, since the astronaut consuming it wouldn't be able to taste it much. Sadly the special plane simulating zero-g is not enough to deaden the taste buds like zero-g space does.

[@patrickmccurry1563]

I loved that stuff as a kid back in the 80s when it was far more "popular". Then again, I was a garbage scow of a child eating virtually anything.

[@TheShinyShow]

This game will just be known as Deliveroo us Mars to me now

[@toymachine2328]

Headcannon that it's interplanetary door dash

[@steveosk8s]

It's amazing how widespread that astronaut ice cream stuff is. Seeing that exact brand in this video from the UK, also seeing it in museums here in america, it's wild.

[@valiroime]

I’m assuming that it’s being sold in the gift shop, and isn’t in an exhibit.

[@coaltowking]

The freeze dried ice cream sandwiches from camping places are pretty good. Everything else needs to be rehydrated.

[@IngenuityFortress]

When I was a kid, I would love going to the Science center and eating astronaut food because I thought it meant I would be an astronaut as an adult. lol, that is until I realized how much math I needed to know

[@zacharysmith4856]

I also thought it was Napoleon, Ellen! 😊

[@ahkine4096]

I really liked the tink sound when the ice cream hit the plate.

[@karichhoy]

Such strange content... but I am loving it! ❤️ Thanks for the laughs 😃

[@russrh]

Ellens giggle makes this episode 🤣 and the crunch

[@Wraith41186]

Freeze dried strawberries dipped in white chocolate are amazing.

[@coffeeaddict9605]

The unhinged energy of this episode is on point.

[@voldrik1364]

I've read that astronauts don't really eat astronaut ice cream because it's too crumbley and the bits could float off and damage equipment.

[@itsdeonlol]

This is so excellent!

[@Patrick462]

OK kids I saw 2001 A Space Odyssey when it came out. Huge screen, intermission, the whole thing. Of course I had no idea what was going on, but a great movie none the less.

[@tyedandridge-evancio8602]

IT'S BEEN 6 YEARS!!! It feels like only yesterday that Outside Xtra was kicking off. WOW

[@emmaiblass]

I often buy freeze dried fruit available as like a trail mix pack. I enjoy them. Also if you toss a handful in oatmeal it’s great.

[@gamepassghost]

Producer John’s camera is one smooth criminal.