10 Thoughts on Crackers

Matt Bors
De Gustibus
Published in
2 min readNov 7, 2015
Illustration by the author (from memory)
  1. A Triscuit® is not a bad cracker by any stretch of the imagination. Master spreading cheese on one without breaking it and you’re in for a very good snack sesh.
  2. Nut Thins® I can really get down with. Great texture. Sturdy. They snap off in my mouth—it’s love. A+ cracker in my book.
  3. Ritz®? I never did get the love for these compressed discs of sawdust. The shape irritates me. Plenty of other options. Oh — very great with peanut butter somehow.
  4. Now, Cheez-It® crackers I need to be really careful around. Don’t hand me a box thinking you’ll get it back with crackers inside. Love to luxuriate in the crumbs in mah bed.
  5. Chicken In a Biskit® is crime.
  6. Cheese Nips®, my theory goes, were made as backups for when I eat all the Cheez-It® crackers on earth. No one remembers a second place cracker.
  7. Nabisco® New England Oyster Crackers should feel free to jump in my soup anytime, in that little cute packet looking like they wanna fuck. Crushed or whole, I don’t discriminate.
  8. Original Club Crackers® should be our money.
  9. Wheat Thins® are a top-notch superb cracker, rightly celebrated for its versatility. Don’t need the flavors, thank you, just hit me with the original classic, unadorned by whatever food item you’re pushing.
  10. Premium® saltines have their uses. I will, on occasion, fill my mouth with them until I can no longer move my jaw. I call this “the cracker procedure.”

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Matt Bors
Matt Bors

Written by Matt Bors

Cartoonist and editor of The Nib. Working on the comic Justice Warriors. Sign up for my newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/hpt7zve