TIL that crackers have class levels.

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Your MIL is insecure, OP, and her snobbiness about crackers has nothing to do with being from CT. My CT family has served each of the cracker brands you've named to guests on various occasions, with the exception of the saltines, not because we think of them as low-class (it never would have occurred to us to think of crackers in connection with social class, actually) but because we eat them in or with clam chowder or as a stand-alone snack.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, you're taking your hate of your MIL to a whole new level. You really need help. She made a comment. You disagreed. But your willingness to mock her here makes you look 1000 times worse than the comment she made. I really pity you that you don't understand that.

MIL has joined the thread! Welcome. I'm so glad the Ritz crumbs from page 3 are still clinging to my sweater.

Jeez, grow up. I am not even old enough to be a MIL. I am just barely old enough to be married without my parents written consent. But even I, at my young age of 20, can see that OP can't stand her MIL. I think it is a sad statement about OP's poor self-esteem that she is getting off on making fun of her MIL. Poor OP. It must suck to be her.

You’re 20 and you poke around middle-aged parenting sites? My goodness. Go live life!

Right? I've been skewered here for being a 38 year old childless person (got twins now!), but my goodness! A 20 year old schooling everyone on MIL etiquette is a bit much lol.

+1. Come on over to the job forum kiddo, and help us out with careers.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, you're taking your hate of your MIL to a whole new level. You really need help. She made a comment. You disagreed. But your willingness to mock her here makes you look 1000 times worse than the comment she made. I really pity you that you don't understand that.

MIL has joined the thread! Welcome. I'm so glad the Ritz crumbs from page 3 are still clinging to my sweater.

Jeez, grow up. I am not even old enough to be a MIL. I am just barely old enough to be married without my parents written consent. But even I, at my young age of 20, can see that OP can't stand her MIL. I think it is a sad statement about OP's poor self-esteem that she is getting off on making fun of her MIL. Poor OP. It must suck to be her.

You’re 20 and you poke around middle-aged parenting sites? My goodness. Go live life!

Right? I've been skewered here for being a 38 year old childless person (got twins now!), but my goodness! A 20 year old schooling everyone on MIL etiquette is a bit much lol.

+1. Come on over to the job forum kiddo, and help us out with careers.

LOL you guys. I've been watching my parents post on DCUM my whole life. Just like all of my friends. You think we're not here posting, too? Although it is cute that you think that because we don't have kids we can't post here.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

Your MIL will get a rude shock if she meets any actual Southerners in SC. Both Saltines and Ritz show up on the cocktail table along with the pimento cheese. Definitely NOT a class distinction.

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She could have said it nicer, but she's right.

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This is the best, OP. Thanks for posting.

It’s funny, I do have crackers in two categories in my mind: fancy/not fancy. But most people just want things that taste good together.

Where would you all rank stoned wheat thins? In my mind they are classy because my wonderful grandmother used to serve them at holidays. She also served a round ball of cheese covered in nuts of some kind and I always thought of that as the height of class. Haha!

Anyone interested in a spin-off thread where we discuss which crackers go with which cheeses? Water crackers + soft rind-ripened cheese like Brie or Camembert. I’d never want a water cracker with cheddar.

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I would never serve ritz to guests thought I do like them on their own once in a while. We buy quality cheeses so would serve with crackers that would go better with them. They're not necessarily cheaper - Carr's are the same price as Ritz and we get several from Trader Joe's like a rosemary or fig and olive.

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I once served Ritz crackers and Cracker Barrel cheddar to my friends at an explicitly all comfort food dinner, and they hoovered right through a couple columns of Ritz. They were all pretty foodie at other times, but come ON. The Ritz deserves our respect.

Also, why is everyone talking about rosemary and fig? What about cranberry and hazelnut, huh?

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Anonymous wrote:She could have said it nicer, but she's right.

There is no way to criticize what your host is serving "nicely." So she's not right. In any definition of polite society, if you don't like what is being served, you simply don't have any.

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Anyone interested in a spin-off thread where we discuss which crackers go with which cheeses? Water crackers + soft rind-ripened cheese like Brie or Camembert. I’d never want a water cracker with cheddar.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/951121.page

[Anonymous]

I am definitely not reading 8 pages on snotty MILs or crackers. Just wanted to say that Triscuits are the best crackers. I am sorry if others have already made this point, but it's important to get it out there.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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I feel like this is exactly the kind of thing an actual WASP would serve and your MIL is a phony.

WASPs eat stuff like cream cheese and cocktail sauce on a ritz, or kraft pimento cheese and a green olive on a wheat thin. Just a quick-pick-me up snack before they take their golden lab to the vet in their 20 year old diesel Mercedes.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, you're taking your hate of your MIL to a whole new level. You really need help. She made a comment. You disagreed. But your willingness to mock her here makes you look 1000 times worse than the comment she made. I really pity you that you don't understand that.

MIL has joined the thread! Welcome. I'm so glad the Ritz crumbs from page 3 are still clinging to my sweater.

Jeez, grow up. I am not even old enough to be a MIL. I am just barely old enough to be married without my parents written consent. But even I, at my young age of 20, can see that OP can't stand her MIL. I think it is a sad statement about OP's poor self-esteem that she is getting off on making fun of her MIL. Poor OP. It must suck to be her.

You’re 20 and you poke around middle-aged parenting sites? My goodness. Go live life!

Right? I've been skewered here for being a 38 year old childless person (got twins now!), but my goodness! A 20 year old schooling everyone on MIL etiquette is a bit much lol.

+1. Come on over to the job forum kiddo, and help us out with careers.

LOL you guys. I've been watching my parents post on DCUM my whole life. Just like all of my friends. You think we're not here posting, too? Although it is cute that you think that because we don't have kids we can't post here.

I love this kid.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, you're taking your hate of your MIL to a whole new level. You really need help. She made a comment. You disagreed. But your willingness to mock her here makes you look 1000 times worse than the comment she made. I really pity you that you don't understand that.

MIL has joined the thread! Welcome. I'm so glad the Ritz crumbs from page 3 are still clinging to my sweater.

Jeez, grow up. I am not even old enough to be a MIL. I am just barely old enough to be married without my parents written consent. But even I, at my young age of 20, can see that OP can't stand her MIL. I think it is a sad statement about OP's poor self-esteem that she is getting off on making fun of her MIL. Poor OP. It must suck to be her.

You’re 20 and you poke around middle-aged parenting sites? My goodness. Go live life!

Right? I've been skewered here for being a 38 year old childless person (got twins now!), but my goodness! A 20 year old schooling everyone on MIL etiquette is a bit much lol.

+1. Come on over to the job forum kiddo, and help us out with careers.

LOL you guys. I've been watching my parents post on DCUM my whole life. Just like all of my friends. You think we're not here posting, too? Although it is cute that you think that because we don't have kids we can't post here.

Oh, go ahead and post, sweetie. But it's kind of you to disclose your age, so we can value your comments appropriately.

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Anonymous wrote:I am definitely not reading 8 pages on snotty MILs or crackers. Just wanted to say that Triscuits are the best crackers. I am sorry if others have already made this point, but it's important to get it out there.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

TED talks don't have snacks? Stop wasting my time!