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As we came home today pretty late, I decide to have MRE dinner for all the family
Nothing special, just MREs but I figured out nobody did until today a "Molasses Cookies" review yet.

So: They came with the 2005 #18 "Sloppy Joe". I don´t know if everybody is familiar with "molasses"?
We live right across a huge sugar factory so we have to smell it every day. If do you squeeze out sugar beet´s and cook that "juice" until it´s very thick, tough you call it "molasses". During WW2, molasses was used in Germany as "replacement honey" (Ersatzhonig).
So it´s a very own taste you can compare maybe with roasted malt.

Olli, thank you for your MOLASSES COOKIES review . I´m surprised they were still edible with an age of eight years, that is not self-evident for MRE cookies (remember the SHORTBREAD COOKIES )

I guess I have eaten them at least once, but I really cannot remember the taste . According to NATICK PAM 30-25 2012 9th edition they were first issued 2004 (MRE XXIV) and last 2006 (MRE XXVI), that is only for three years. I guess here we can see that they were not accepted by US soldiers, because of a weird taste .

kman also shows a MOLASSES COOKIE (one cookie ) here:

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=401

So long mreheater72

P.S.: You are very charitable, opening four MREs (if I see right on your pics) at one day !

mreheater72 wrote: P.S.: You are very charitable, opening four MREs (if I see right on your pics) at one day !

Too bad we weren´t enough peoples for having a T-18

housil wrote:

mreheater72 wrote: P.S.: You are very charitable, opening four MREs (if I see right on your pics) at one day !

Too bad we weren´t enough peoples for having a T-18

Speeking of shortbread cookies - one of my favorites! One of the MREs came with shortbread cookies and as feard they were rancid opened another from a previous 2004 case - same nasty smell...

sugar beets yuck

you need some Blackstrap Molasses

haaah, you are really ready to eat regards!