Crackers, So Many Choices Now

Lee

Lee

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They even have breakfast crackers now made with oats and honey. Back in the day we just had saltines that we crumpled up into soup.

So how do you take your crackers? In soup, or a snack, or not at all.

Occasionally when I just want a little something a cracker or two with Laughing Cow or Philly is my little snack.
 

When I was a teen and working full time.. my father took all my wages aside from my bus fares to work.. so I if I walked to work one day ( 6 miles )... I could have enough money to buy a Pack of Jacobs crackers.. and a pack of Dairylee triangles. ..which would give me 3 crackers with one cheese triangle spread over them for my lunch at work...
Nowadays of course, and for many years now, we've been able to buy every type and every flavour of crackers.. but altho' I'd have loved to have had a proper lunch at work, I will always remember those life saving bland Jacobs crackers with some affection
 
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hawkdon said:
I no longer buy any crackers, don't use them often enuff before
they go stale....
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Same here. I have rosemary and sea salt crackers in the cupboard, but prior to that I've always kept 3 or 4 flavours of crackers in the cupbaord at all times.. Soon2BEx liked crackers and cheese , and it took me several months after he was gone to remember not to buy them..
 
hollydolly said:
When I was a teen and working full time.. my father took all my wages aside from my bus fares to work.. so I if I walked to work one day ( 6 miles )... I could have enough money to buy a Pack of Jacobs crackers.. and a pack of Dairylee triangles. ..which would give me 3 crackers with one cheese triangle spread over them for my lunch at work...
Nowadays of course, and for many years now, we've been able to buy every type and every flavour of crackers.. but altho' I'd have loved to have had a proper lunch at work, I will always remember those life saving bland Jacobs crackers with some aaffec
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I think I bought some Jacobs recently. The package is gone. They were thick, plain, but almost creamy.
 
I think cracker prices are pretty high (more expensive than beef for instance), and always have been. They're not in my diet plan now, but my wife eats them frequently. She often makes crackers with the discard from her sourdough starter. They seem to be pretty easy to make and have less bad stuff in them than store bought. It's easy to make a variety in the same batch by varying the additives such as sesame seeds, poppy seeds, minced dried onions or herbs, spices or what have you.
 
Sometimes I like saltines or oyster crackers in my soup but I don't buy them. I'd have them when ordering soup at a restaurant. After the pandemic hit, our senior center closed and sent out 5 care packages over a year's time. Each had a bunch of saltine packets in them. I gave away one of the boxes and some items from another to a neighbor and still had plenty of saltines left.

I've tried townhouse crackers but they are too delicate and so is the packaging. I get a great deal on Ritz when Costco has the 18 pack on sale and I like them just as much. Now that my husband is gone and my son does not eat them often, I had to find a way to make them last. I found out that they last more than a year past the best by date when stored in the fridge. Sometimes I have them with peanut butter, sometimes with jelly and sometimes with sliced Meunster cheese.
 
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jujube said:
Speaking of Ritz crackers....do you remember when they used to have the recipe for "mock apple pie" on the back of the box? I don't know when they stopped doing that, but it was a long time ago.

I've never had mock apple pie. Have you?
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No, though people that had it swore exactly like apple pie.

Usually I buy a couple of boxes of crackers around Christmas. Throw them out in June.

I replenished my supply with some Mary‘s crackers. Maybe I’ll have some with aged white cheddar tomorrow.
 
jujube said:
Speaking of Ritz crackers....do you remember when they used to have the recipe for "mock apple pie" on the back of the box? I don't know when they stopped doing that, but it was a long time ago.

I've never had mock apple pie. Have you?
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My father used to ask my mother to make that when certain relatives or friends were coming.
He thought it tasted just like apple pie and loved to fool them.
I don't really remember eating it. I probably just thought it was apple pie. 🤔
 
jujube said:
Speaking of Ritz crackers....do you remember when they used to have the recipe for "mock apple pie" on the back of the box? I don't know when they stopped doing that, but it was a long time ago.

I've never had mock apple pie. Have you?
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We've had mock apple and mock pumkin pie
Ingredients unknown to me
Couldn't tell the dif

Speaking of Ritz
Andy Griffith had a commercial back in the day

'Cheese on a Ritz.....MMM-MMM....Good Cracker'
(or something like that)

Now if he'd had some cream cheese 'tween two wheat thins?
His commercial would've been more like;

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My family, going back to Great Grandfather in territorial days, has always eaten what we call "toasted crackers" which are saltines, lightly buttered and put under the broiler until golden brown.

I think this goes back to the time when saltines came in large barrels and in the wet climate of WA would become stale rather quickly. Toasting them brought back the crunch and the butter masked any stale taste.

Anyway I love them even today.
 
Lee said:
They even have breakfast crackers now made with oats and honey. Back in the day we just had saltines that we crumpled up into soup.

So how do you take your crackers? In soup, or a snack, or not at all.

Occasionally when I just want a little something a cracker or two with Laughing Cow or Philly is my little snack.
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My preference is a plain water cracker, it goes with any topping—cheese, peanut butter, smoked salmon, or whatever. I like them because they're not flavored with herbs, seeds, etc. The flavor of what's on top of the cracker is what I want to taste!
 
Blue Diamond brand has brought out a new cracker, made of pecan meal and rice flour. We tried a box and they were pretty good. An artisanal bakery in Sonoma County, Rustic Bakery, makes very fine sourdough flatbread crackers in various flavors, often with dried fruits and nuts.
 
hearlady said:
We don't eat many crackers but I like to have some on hand. I picked up these. I'm pretty sure it's individual sleeves so they'll stay fresher.

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I opened these today and I was disappointed because the different crackers weren't individually wrapped. We don't use them fast so I put them in large glass containers to keep them fresh.
If you are using them for a party, they do come in a plastic serving tray. A lot were broken though as the wrapping over the tray was not tight.
Anyway, there's my review of them.
They taste ok! Glass keeps them fresh a long time so it will be ok.
 

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