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Graham crackers and digestive biscuits are also treated more like cookies than crackers, although they were both invented for their supposed health benefits, and modern graham crackers are sweet. Similarly, animal crackers are crackers in name only. Animal crackers and Graham crackers may have docking holes. [citation needed]
The graham cracker was inspired by the preaching of Sylvester Graham, who was part of the 19th-century temperance movement.He believed that minimizing pleasure and stimulation of all kinds, including the prevention of masturbation, coupled with a vegetarian diet anchored by bread made from wheat coarsely ground at home, was how God intended people to live, and that following this natural law ...
Triscuit is a brand name of snack crackers which take the form of baked square whole wheat wafers. Invented in 1900, a patent was granted in 1902 [1] and the Shredded Wheat Company began production the next year [2] in Niagara Falls, New York. The Niagara site being chosen due to its proximity to the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power generating ...
American businesses were quick to pick up the slack and companies like Stauffer's Biscuit Company, which still exists today, made their first animal crackers in 1871 out of York, PA.
The World's Largest Christmas Cracker was measured at 63.1 m (207 ft) long and 4 m (13 ft) in diameter and was made by the parents of children at Ley Hill School and Pre-School, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, UK on 20 December 2001.
Animal biscuit crackers were made and distributed under the National Biscuit Company banner. In 1902, animal crackers officially became known as "Barnum's Animals" and evoked the familiar circus theme of the Barnum and Bailey Circus. Later in 1902, the now-familiar box was designed for the Christmas season with the innovative idea of attaching ...
Mar. 22—Here's a delicious Dayton connection: the Cheez-It was born here 100 years ago. The cracker — square in shape and orange in color — was invented by the Green & Green Company in 1921 ...
The 1970s and '80s were filled with memorable but not-so-healthy foods. ... Hershey's Bar None was introduced to the world in 1987 (and in Canada was called a Temptation). ... featuring kids in ...