National Animal Cracker Day
Today is National Animal Cracker Day.
A day that takes us back to being kids, when a simple box of crackers somehow felt like something more than just a snack.
We didn’t just eat them. We looked at them first. Tried to figure out what each one was supposed to be. Some were obvious, others less so, but that never seemed to matter.
Animal crackers have been around since the late 1800s, originally imported from England before becoming a staple in American snack culture. The familiar circus-style versions arrived in the early 1900s, packaged in small boxes with a string so they could be hung like ornaments. Even then, it wasn’t just about the food.
This is my photograph of animal crackers, piled together, no order, no hierarchy. Just a mass of indistinct shapes. Once you take away the packaging and the nostalgia, they become something else entirely.
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Twinkies, Twenty of Them
Twinkies, twenty of them for National Twinkie Day today!
April 6, 1930 — James Dewar invents the Twinkie in River Forest, Illinois. He names it after a roadside ad that read: “Twinkle Toe Shoes — the kids’ favorite”. Banana filling at first. Vanilla took over during WWII, and never left.
Since then, they’ve been everywhere: bunkers, lunchboxes, courtrooms, campaign speeches, urban legends. They were discontinued in 2012, mourned like pop stars, then brought back in 2013. This is nostalgia. And a little bit of history.
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