Monday, 26 September 2022 02:08

Pupusas reach space

Written by Evelyn Alas

A few hours before the takeoff of our compatriot Frank Rubio, the first astronaut of salvadoran origin to fly in a space expedition; Pupusería Suiza makes one of the most important deliveries in its history, the mission: to take a 'rimero' of pupusas from El Salvador to outer space in a very particular experiment.

In a recent interview, Rubio said "I love pupusas... I'm going to miss all of that", and his words echoed in our minds, so we looked for an alternative and decided to launch our pupusas into space.

To carry out this experiment it was necessary to travel to Monterrey, Mexico, and thanks to the advice of experts from the North American country and with the help of a weather balloon filled with helium our pupusas flew more than 35 thousand meters high (four times higher than the height reached by a commercial airliner), experienced temperatures of less than 64 °C and after an hour and five minutes of flight the balloon finally burst starting the dramatic descent Video Tik Tok

"We could not conduct the experiment from El Salvador because of geography, since the country is small and the radius of fall of the pupusas was up to 160 kilometers around, which meant that they could fall into the sea or in Honduras", explained Cecilia Quijano, general manager of Pupusería Suiza and who led the mission.

This large-scale experiment, carried out for the first time by a pupusería, is an initiative of Pupusería Suiza, a 100% salvadoran company, which has stood out throughout its 23 years for developing innovative ideas for the commercialization and projection of the typical product par excellence: pupusas.

In short, with our astronaut Frank Rubio in a very important research for humanity (study the human body and how it is affected by micro-gravity in order to bring humans back to the moon and eventually give way to human exploration on Mars), and with the launch of our pupusas into space, in the patriotic month all salvadorans can not feel more proud of our roots, our cuisine and especially our people, our blue and white heart is exalted because we have taken part of El Salvador to the top.