[pct-l] New food

[Cris]

There is nothing sweeter than dehydrated melon.  You don't have to have the
freeze dried stuff.  Cantaloupe, watermelon and if you can find it, Santa
Claus melon is just like candy.  It's hard to save any for hiking because my
grandkids eat it all.

Cris
...mountains don't tolerate fools...
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> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:17:27 -0700
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> 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.
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