TIL that crackers have class levels.
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Anonymous
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We hosted my ILs, my SIL, my sister and her kids, and a few neighbors and their kids for Halloween. It was a very low key event of the kids playing before trick-or-treating and the adults watching football before going out.
My ILs live out of state and came down for the weekend on their way to visit friends in SC. When I found out they were staying with us, I let them know that we were have some people over (we take turns in the neighborhood for football games), and they were fine with this. Food served was munchie finger foods that are both adult and kid approved. We had a variety of different dips from Trader Joes and Costco served along with Ritz crackers. My MIL pulled me aside to ask if I had any other crackers as Ritz were very "pedestrian" and when I said no, we liked to keep it low key and adult & kid approved, she said "wow, this is just so embarrassing. I'm honestly embarrassed for you right now." Over crackers. Crackers! MIL can sometimes be a bit much. She grew up in CT and likes to pretend she's WASPy but she's not at all. Her favorite lie is "my father was in the oil business" when he was really a mechanic who owned his own shop. Anyway, according to her, Ritz are low class crackers and as soon as she said it, I was like "OMG, I HAVE TO LET DCUM KNOW CRACKERS HAVE CLASS LEVELS!" She kept fretting over the crackers and asking everyone if they liked a dip and when they said yes, she'd follow up with "but don't you agree it'd be better on a different cracker?" Even though it was Halloween and all of the kids looked adorable, the cracker saga was the highlight of my day. Thank god she's leaving to spread the cracker gospel to others and leaving me and my Ritz alone for the rest of 2021! |
Anonymous
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Well I come from a low class and we love Ritz so maybe she’s right!
They’re sooo good with salmon spread. Mmmm… |
Anonymous
| I would have said "yes" and then pulled out a sleeve of saltines and put next to the Ritz to really piss her off! |
Anonymous
| Sure. But ritz are fing tasty. Perfect for tonight. |
Anonymous
| Well, to be fair, Ritz crackers are gross. |
Anonymous
Store brand. Unsalted. |
Anonymous
I'm sorry you have to deal with that-- she would hate my house. My all time favorite cracker is trashy, low class Club Crackers (they're so buttery!). You can probably buy them at the gas station. |
Anonymous
Yes! Op, I am a cracker lover and agree there are class levels but they are truly negligible, all crackers and basically the same thing. Ritz are going to be tastier to more people than a water cracker or some assortment where the butter crackers get picked off first. |
Anonymous
| She sounds pretentious and insecure. It’s great that you can laugh about it. |
Anonymous
| This is so funny. I’ll admit that in my middle class family when we were hosting the one set of rich relatives (my very handsome uncle married an insurance company heiress), we would put away the Ritz and Triscuits and get the Carr’s mixture with the table water crackers and a few others. And my mom would put out Brie instead of cheddar. Brie on a table water cracker really doesn’t compare to cheddar on a triscuit, IMO. |
Anonymous
| I’d do faux-concern. “Oh, Betty, that’s such a rude thing to say. Are you having impulse control issues lately? Should we be talking to your doctor about that?” Big smile, then carry on. |
Anonymous
I love you. |
Anonymous
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Fancy crackers:
Carr’s water crackers, the digestive biscuits, and the rosemary crackers, and the sampler box Pedestrian: Ritz, Triscuits, Club/Townhouse Low-class, only-when-sick: Saltines [Donald Trump voice and gesture] “Everyone knows this.” |
Anonymous
| This is fake. |
Anonymous
Nothing hits like a saltine when sick |