PINEAPPLE in first run MREs (I to V)?

[mreheater72]

Maybe the menu booklet is slightly innacurate in some menu item details? It can happen..

Hi BB -

Could be. Wouldn't be the first time, I'm sure!

I'm just wondering if they "intended" to release the pineapple as a future item so they listed it anyway. Possibly to test its acceptance before production began? Like the cookies. I ate a ton of those Dehydrated Pork Patties and never once encountered cookies let alone the pineapple.

I remember the cookies packed in the older MCI's and in the current MRE's. But throughout the 80's - not that it never happened - I never ate an MRE with cookies or pineapple included. The only "wet" fruit I remember is the Applesauce and the dehydrated fruit cocktail which I liked better dry as the flavor to me was more concentrated.

So, it could be a mis-print. Could have been listed but intended for future procurement, possibly due to production problems.

Tim, you do not remember the awesome COOKIES, CHOCOLATE COVERED ! They were great! See here:

http://www.mreinfo.com/reviews/mre/1982-pork-patty.html

So long mreheater72

[LogDayFreshHots]

DOH!

I'm sorry Hagen. I was thinking of the more modern cookies in the current MRE's.

I remember these and you are right, they are AWESOME! I remember the square ones and never could figure out why some "genius" decided to stop including them in the meals later on. I don't clearly remember the round cookies but that is not to say I never had them. But I definitely remember the square chocolate-covered cookies.

We were still calling them "John Wayne bars", "John Wayne cookies", and "gorilla cookies" because you had to be as tough as the "Duke" or a gorilla to chew it sometimes....

Thank for the reminder!

[mreheater72]

...I remember these and you are right, they are AWESOME! I remember the square ones and never could figure out why some "genius" decided to stop including them in the meals later on. I don't clearly remember the round cookies but that is not to say I never had them. But I definitely remember the square chocolate-covered cookies...

Here are two close ups of the brown (the very early ones were grey/olive, but those I do not have in my collection) wrapper of the round COOKIES, CHOCOLATE COVERED, packed by STERLING BAKERY :





So long mreheater72