MRE Review: Cinnamon Scone

Cinnamon Scone Review By Todd Farino


From the name it sounds delicious. That is of course if you know what a Scone is. Here is the actual definition of a Scone

scone  /skoʊn, skɒn/ –noun
1. A small, light, biscuit-like quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.

Obviously, the one you are getting in MREs has an added ingredient of the greatest sweet spice on the earth cinnamon. As you can tell I love cinnamon, so I was excited to try this treat the first time I had a chance. It isn't the most common snack bread dessert or treat you will fine, but you will get it. I have to admit that I wasn't happy at all with its taste and for three reasons.

1. semi-hard bread. The scone is moist, but it is one of the least moist snack breads in MREs and was a tad hard. Right off the bat the psyches a person out when getting ready to enjoy there dessert. "OH look, the bread seems stale.

2. Very dry. The Cinnamon Scone is the driest bread treat to date in MREs. It quietly reminds me of the Las Vegas Valley dry desert weather. It is a meal that requires milk, water, or just something to help you swallow it.

3. Where is the Cinnamon? Was the name given to fool us? Was a trick name meaning apposite of cinnamon. As far as I can tell, the taste of Cinnamon is barely there. You do taste sugar, but cinnamon just doesn't ring a bell in my taste buds when I was eating this morsel.

Overall, its just a bad treat. If your lucky and you get a moist one, celebrate. It still has a sweet taste, but that is about it.

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