![]() ![]() Perhaps the best example of “authentic” common crackers for sale today are Vermont Common Crackers, made and sold using an adaptation of an 1828 recipe by Vermont Common Foods and the Orton family the of the Vermont Country Store. ![]() All three are members of the soda cracker family, but nothing comes close in heft and bite to the robust common cracker. The cracker barrel was its generation’s water cooler - a place to gather and catch up on local news while recouping your cracker supply, but unfortunately, good common crackers can be difficult to find today, lost in a sea of flat, square saltines and small, crisp oyster crackers. The term “common cracker” first appeared in print in 1939 but by then the large (about the size of a Ritz cracker today), puffed cracker was already a New England mainstay, sold since the early 1800s from barrels (yes, “cracker barrels” were a real thing before they were a restaurant chain) in general stores. ![]()
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