Maggie Coblentz

They have teriyaki chicken.

I think that's super popular.

Apparently the fish is not a fan favorite because your crewmates

don't enjoy the smell.

It's a tiny capsule.

So you can imagine that anything you eat or heat up and open is going to, you know, add its own special aromas into this shared space.

I recently encountered Jax's menus.

That's the Japanese space agency.

And I decided if I'm going to space, I'm signing up for their menu.

All of the foods are made from different research institutes and universities.

So I think already that's just adding a lot of

flavor and excitement and they have soy glazed eel and fried chicken and all sorts of different mochi desserts.

It wouldn't be my take, but I think it actually didn't surprise me.

It felt like, okay, this is again, sort of telling of how at least the current NASA menu is being designed and for who.

Protein is probably important in space.

Not that you can't get that from vegetarian food or other options, but it did seem quite, yeah, meat heavy, chicken, beef.

Yeah, like meat and potatoes.

Like a kind of classic American menu.

Yeah.

And the most, you know, internationals, as I said, like teriyaki chicken, but it's still kind of an American...