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“New options for 2005 include: the Ranger Bar, an oat-based meal bar similar to commercial health snacks; Cheese Nips; raisins; white chocolate and raspberry cookies; smokehouse almonds; cinnamon scones; and blueberry-cherry cobbler. Also coming in the new batch of meals is a blast from the past: Walnettos.
Long forgotten, these walnut caramels were introduced in the United States in 1919 and were a top candy through the 1950s, even becoming a running gag on the classic TV comedy “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.” The product line was retired in the 1960s.
“It was a submission from the company,” said Jeannette Kennedy, a food technologist for six years at the US Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass. “It held up well, so we field-tested them, and the soldiers loved them.”
Indeed, even Military Times’ volunteers had nothing bad to say about the taste of the walnut-flavored treats.
“These are the best ones,” said Army Sgt. Martha Arroyo, 40, logistics specialist for 18th Contracting Command at Fort Bragg, N.C., the site of another taste test. “I don’t like candy that’s too sweet, so this is just perfect.” (The Military Times, page 36) Click here to read the soldiers comments featured in the Army News survey.
