Submit a question. Eating is not an easy task in a weightless environment. Food doesn't stay on a table.
Drinks float in droplets through the air.
Take a bite of a cracker, and crumbs will float through the cabin that could get into the instruments and cause problems. Luckily, technology has developed over time to make eating in space easier, tastier and more efficient. In the 1960s, astronauts ate from squeeze tubes. The tubes weren't popular, and were no longer used after the Mercury program ended. Starting with the Gemini program, astronauts began eating freeze-dried foods from plastic containers.