• Altima NEO
      link
      fedilink
      English
      18 months ago

      I mean damn, when my mom was pregnant with my sister, these were what she craved. My sister turned it ok…

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    288 months ago

    I’m gonna put butter on them and you can’t stop me. Damn, I wish I had a sleeve of saltines.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    188 months ago

    I feel like this is trying to hide the fact that it’s explicitly talking about the packaging sleeve and not the actual crackers.

  • @Ilsunny
    link
    168 months ago

    For protein, include peanut butter.

  • PatFusty
    link
    fedilink
    10
    edit-2
    8 months ago

    I used to go through these like clockwork. Now I have gout at age 32 😢

  • tygerprints
    link
    fedilink
    58 months ago

    I dunno though - I think eating the Saltines themselves would be tastier than eating the sleeves, if only marginally.

    • no bananaOP
      link
      fedilink
      38 months ago

      I’m not an American either but yes, saltines are salty biscuits.

      • Dharma Curious (he/him)
        link
        fedilink
        208 months ago

        Now just wait a damn minute here, is everything just called a biscuit outside of the US? Cookies are biscuits and now crackers are also biscuits? How do y’all distinguish things‽ “I’d like a biscuit” must be this dangerous game of roulette where you might get a delicious chocolate chip cookie or you might get a dry ass saltines or little teeny oyster crackers or God knows what else.

        Y’all need new words for shit

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          88 months ago

          If you think biscuit is bad… you should try pan.

          I’ve tried explaining the various English denominations of various bread items to Spanish speaking people and it’s just not easy. Roll, bun, loaf, baguette, brioche, pita, ciabatta, soda bread, brown bread, rye… it’s all just pan.

          • Dharma Curious (he/him)
            link
            fedilink
            58 months ago

            That’s just sad. I need my million words for breads because I enjoy having different breads! How will I properly tell the baker what I want??

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            18 months ago

            This is what annoys me about this argument.

            Im making a soup and want to thicken it “do we have any bread?” Damn near any bread (even tortillas, which are by definition bread) will do the job. If I want to make a sandwich then the difference is important.

            Sometimes its important sometimes it isnt but fuck me if Americans seem to think that we dont know what a cookie or a cracker is, like I’m utterly incapable of using a more direct descriptor to get what I want.

        • no bananaOP
          link
          fedilink
          4
          edit-2
          8 months ago

          Crackers are biscuits, and so are biscuits. Cookies are cookies. Unless you’re a Brit, then everything seems to be a biscuit or a cake. Some biscuits seem to be cakes, and some cookies also seem to be cakes. Most cakes are cakes.

          This said I’m not British and I’m talking out of my shitpost.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            58 months ago

            If there’s a question about whether it’s a biscuit or a cake, leave it out for a few days, if it gets softer it’s a biscuit, if it gets harder it’s a cake, and if it gets covered in ‘gravy’ there’s an American in your house.

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                38 months ago

                Indeed they are, as adjudicated by the courts of the land. I like the reporting here, especially:

                Customs and Excise had accepted since the start of VAT that Jaffa Cakes were zero-rated as cakes, but always had misgivings about whether this was correct.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            38 months ago

            Brit here most things are biscuits except some that are cookies e.g. chocolate chip cookies, crackers are crackers.

            I hope that clears things up

            • no bananaOP
              link
              fedilink
              4
              edit-2
              8 months ago

              I’m just trying to confuse the Americans. You blew my cover!

            • Dharma Curious (he/him)
              link
              fedilink
              38 months ago

              I thought y’all didn’t have cookies? Like, I thought everything we called cookie you call biscuit?

              Also, have you ever had an American style biscuit?

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                English
                28 months ago

                Tbh I don’t know why we call some things cookies. I have heard people say cookies have the softer ce ter buy that doesnt track 100% from brand to brand.

                On American biscuits nope I didn’t know they were a thing rill a long time friend from the states who likes playing with these language quirks as much as I do

                • Dharma Curious (he/him)
                  link
                  fedilink
                  38 months ago

                  If you ever visit (probably don’t, it’s a hellhole) try biscuits and gravy. Preferably from someone’s southern grandma or a gas station in rural Georgia. But if all else fails, Hardee’s is acceptable for someone without something to compare it to.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          18 months ago

          No. American is not correct by default.

          Crackers are biscuits, cookies are also biscuits. A Toyota Camry is a car, a Dodge neon is also a car, its not that hard. If specificity is important you specify.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            5
            edit-2
            8 months ago

            Wrong

            We took a vote of native English speakers and it turns out we’re right and the best

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    38 months ago

    Crumble them up in a glass of milk. You won’t regret it.

    The only downside is then my wife will think you’re weird, too.