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This is tube food.
这是管状食物。
We call it tube food because it is food that is packed in a tube.
我们叫它管状食物是因为他就是装进管子里的食物。
U2 pilots in the air force are a lot like astronauts.
空军中的U2飞行员和宇航员很像。
They fly as hight as 72,000 feet, and there's no oxygen.
它们在72000英尺的高空飞行，那里没有氧气。
So they wear pressurized suits and helmets to breathe.
所以他们穿着加压服、戴着头盔来呼吸。
The only way to eat is to slurp through a straw.
吃东西的唯一方法就是用吸管吸。
What we do here is we make and design rations for the U.S. military.
我们在这里做的就是为美国军队制作和设计口粮。
We are the only people in the world who make it, and these are tube foods.
我们是世界上唯一能做这件事的人，这些就是管状食品。
We have approximately 19 different varieties that we make here.
我们这里有大约19种不同的品种。
Apple pie, key lime pie, beef stew, truffle mac and cheese.
苹果派，酸橙派，炖牛肉，松露芝士通心粉。
The products used to be very pureed.
这些产品以前都很浓稠。
It looked a lot like baby food.
看起来很像婴儿食品。
In fact, many of the pilots used to think that Gerber manufactured the tube-foods for them, but about five years ago the pilots came up to us and they wanted something that had texture, more like regular food.
事实上，许多飞行员过去认为格伯公司为他们制作管状食物，但大约五年前，飞行员找到我们，他们想要有质感的食物，更像普通食物。
If you have a beef stew, they wanted to be able to taste the peas, and the carrots, and the meat, and the potatoes separately, not just as one mashed-up product.
如果你做一款炖牛肉，他们希望能分别品尝到豌豆、胡萝卜、肉和土豆的味道，而不是把它们混合在一起。
So Dan and his team of food scientists in this lab set to work.
所以丹和他的食品科学家团队开始在这个实验室工作。
We try to grind things up so that they do have a particle size that's small enough to fit through this tube, yet still gives the texture that the person would normally have.
我们试着把东西磨碎，这样它们的颗粒就足够小，可以装进这个管子，同时还能保持一种平时吃起来的质感。
Those tube-food flavors aren't the only thing they've developed in this lab.
这些管状食物并不是他们在这个实验室开发的唯一东西。
From powdered cheese to instant coffee, they've invented a number of products that eventually made their way into civilian life.
从奶酪粉到速溶咖啡，他们发明了许多最终进入平民生活的产品。
So is tube food our future?
那么，管状食物是我们的未来吗？
There hasn't been an effective use of these products in this country outside of the U2,
在这个国家，除了U2，这些产品还没有得到有效使用的场景，
but we can see where it might be useful for students in a dormitory, campers, anyone who wants to have an easy eat on-the-go item.
但我们可以猜测，它可能对住宿舍的学生、露营者、任何想在路上轻松吃东西的人有用。
