[pct-l] New food

[cvano at tmail.com]

Found a new item at Food Pavilion today.  This store carries the Western 
Family brands, so that might help locate this item.  Note, I am not any 
kind of salesman and not affiliated with anything here.

Festival brand dried sweet fruit, $4.99 for a 5oz re-sealable package.  
Found it near the raisins. Available today were cantaloupe, pineapple, 
mango, pear, and apple.  I bought the cantaloupe.  The package is hard 
to open with fingers and teeth, I had to resort to a knife.  There are a 
*lot* of slices in this 5oz!  Doesn't taste like a fresh one and is a 
bit chewey-er and sweeter.  Some natural liquid must remain as its not 
crunchy and you don't have to reconstitute it.  The ingredients are: 
cantaloupe, sugar, citric acid, sulpher dioxide (to preserve color) and 
artificial flavor.  First bite reminded me of fruit cake fruit, but by 
the 2nd slice I was thinking it would be quite enjoyable about the 3rd 
or 4th morning on the trail.  But then, why wait?  This package says 
'freshest by 010609' so it has some shelf life too.  Good bounce bucket 
item where there is no fresh produce maybe?

It's not the Mountains that we conquer,
but Ourselves.  Sir Edmund Hillary 1919-2008

Ol' Three Toes aka Chris
S/V Drifter ~~~_/)~~~
Anacortes, WA.