Black and White and Read All Over: When Tang was out of this world

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OPINION/COLUMN

Judy Beck Baker
Judy Beck Baker

Are you at all familiar with Tang, the orange drink mix?

If so, do you remember how our government utilized it back around 1962?

Now there’s a question with an answer that will date you … and good!

I asked a certain thirteenyear-old to find me some Tang in a store a few days ago and I was met with, “What’s Tang?”

I said, “You know, Tang, that orange drink mix that goes in water.”

“Nope.”

“The stuff that…