Trivia: What food was first eaten in space by an American astronaut?

I belong to an internet thingy that sends daily trivia to my e-mail.

This was one of the questions the other day.
I got it wrong.

No prizes, just bragging rights.

No cheating or looking it up, I didn't, so you can't !

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pastrami on rye comes to mind.
Rex
*edit*
'nope I was wrong', he said after looking it up. the sandwich incident didn't occur until Gemini (and it wasn't pastrami).

Something in a (toothpaste style) tube? Peanut butter?
Washed down with Tang.

Probably on Vostok 2. Vostok 1 only went one orbit, but Titov did not go 24 hours with nothing to eat. He probably pastes of different flavors ate out of a tube.

That one was John Young and a corned beef sandwich. Don't know about the OP's trivia question, though.

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I know that Glenn ate applesauce from a squeeze tube aboard Friendship 7...not sure if that was the *first* food, however...

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Comrades:

Yuri ate meat and chocolate from squeeze tubes and Gherman spent most of the time throwing up. But I have no idea what Big Al had. It was Cinco de Mayo so maybe he had Mexican.

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"The Vixen" guesses chocolate pudding. I'm guessing peanut butter.

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Well, the question was AMERICAN space food. Does feeding the chimps bananas count?

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I miss being SAM 062

Awaiting First Launch: Too numerous to count
Finishing: Zooch Saturn V; Alway/Nau BioArcas; Estes Expedition; TLP Standard
Repair/Rescue: Cherokee-D (2); Centuri Nike-Smoke; MX-774
On the Bench: 2650;
Dream Stage: 1/39.37 R-7