Chocolate Banana Nut Dessert Bar

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Chocolate Banana Nut Dessert Bar

Post by hannonmc » Tue May 17, 2011 1:14 pm

I just had a dessert bar (manufacture 11/2008) that came in one of Treesuit's FSIRs... I was quite pleased with it...

At first I was expecting some sort of miniature powerbar. Instead, it is more of an "airy" brownie. Strong cocoa flavor. Maybe a hint of chemical in there, but this is, after all, a MRE item. It sort of reminds me of chocolate mousse, but much denser.

This one is just hard to explain...

So, on a scale:

<-- less dense / more dense -->
choclate mousse / filling of a 3 Musketeer bar / dessert bar / brownie / chocolate bar

If you get your hands on one, I think you'll enjoy it.

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Re: Chocolate Banana Nut Dessert Bar

Post by Treesuit » Fri May 20, 2011 11:15 am

Was there any hint of banana?

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Re: Chocolate Banana Nut Dessert Bar

Post by hannonmc » Fri May 20, 2011 5:40 pm

Actually, there was a hint of banana. I detected it more afterwards, but it was there.

All in all, I would stock up on these.

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Re: Chocolate Banana Nut Dessert Bar

Post by housil » Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:13 pm

Today I had one of these too:

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The very first time I had one of these new bars.

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Just three years young

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Nice smell

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It had a nice banana taste and also nice pieces of nuts. I´d like it to have it again.

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Post by Name_not_found » Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:02 pm

Thanks for the pics, i haven't found one of these yet

how would you compare it to the banana chocolate muffin top?
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Re: Chocolate Banana Nut Dessert Bar

Post by housil » Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:01 am

Name_not_found wrote:...banana chocolate muffin top?
Sry, don´t know these :cry:

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Re: Chocolate Banana Nut Dessert Bar

Post by Name_not_found » Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:14 am

I will do another review if requested, but i did find this one from 08 to give you an idea of what it is

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Re: Chocolate Banana Nut Dessert Bar

Post by TurtleNomad » Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:47 am

+1

I recently tried three of the dessert bar varieties (c.b.n., peanut butter, mocha) as part of CheaperThanDirt's "MRE side items", and was very pleasantly surprised by all of them!
Mocha is my favorite, CBN my 2nd.

In contrast, I was disappointed by the apple cinnamon First Strike bars.
They have a far more "tacti-kewl" name, but have the strongest chemical aftertaste of any MRE item I've ever had. :(

I'm with the rest of you on the the muffin top.
It's not horrible (better than the FS bars), but was disappointing. To be fair, the word "muffin" had me preconditioned to expect a freshly baked muffin, which was rather naive on my part. ;)
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Re: Chocolate Banana Nut Dessert Bar

Post by mreheater72 » Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:04 am

housil wrote:Today I had one of these too...
That dessert bar looks very, very yummy :D !

Olli, from which ration is that bar? MRE? I did not found it on any menu list!
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Re: Chocolate Banana Nut Dessert Bar

Post by housil » Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:00 am

mreheater72 wrote: Olli, from which ration is that bar? MRE? I did not found it on any menu list!
A "fairy godmother" (Gute Fee) had send it to me from the States (from "CheaperThanDirt") :D

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