TIL that crackers have class levels.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in the UK with Carr’s and oat crackers and really good cheddar.
DH loves the flaky crackers here (Ritz, etc) and puts all kinds of dip on them.

Oh well.

[Anonymous]

OP, I am now craving Ritz crackers. I blame you.

[Anonymous]

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!

My FIL was an oil landman (bought and sold mineral rights). He really was in the oil business. They had Ritz crackers. I love them.

[Anonymous]

Where I am from, everyone was in oil and it meant rich and trashy but also being just fine with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.”

I think of digestive biscuits as closer to a cookie than a cracker. They even sell them chocolate-coated.

[Anonymous]

Fancy crackers-inedible cardboard!
Ritz crackers-heaven in your mouth!
If we are all being honest, Ritz crackers are like crack!
Your MIL is a serious biatch. Plus, lol, lol, lol!
How low class is she to criticize you for having low class crackers! Pot meet kettle, or well your MIL can just look into a mirror!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, maybe she is just trying to help you and give you some advice? I do not think I would serve Ritz to non family members either, and I live in Herndon. Maybe it was just about the information and not a huge blown/up deal you are making it.

LOL. Well, I live in Alexandria - and DH is bona fide UMC European! - and we definitely put out Ritz, and TownHouse, and Saltines when we host. Ritzes are, in fact, DH's favorite cracker. I also put out water crackers because I like them and occasionally some other kinds based on what caught my eye in the grocery store. But yeah, the Ritz, etc. invariably get eaten first. Of course I'm also GenX, and our pretensions are different to Millennials/Boomers (or maybe I'm just old enough not to GAF about feeding my guests what they are "supposed" to like instead of what they actually enjoy eating).

OP, your MIL sounds enjoyably nuts. Thanks for the laugh!

I am a bona dine European! Nothing better than Ritz crackers. The taste of butter, even fake... makes me melt!

[Anonymous]

Ritz crackers are the best with tomato soup! MMMMM

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I opened this thread while eating Ritz crackers with peanut butter on top. Sooooo good. If I had banana slices to add on top then I'd really be in heaven!

Ha! I went and got Ritz and cheese when I was on page 3, and came back.

PP here, I am following up with some Trader Joe's Green Goddess Gouda cheese for the final 1/3 sleeve of Ritz. Actually I think they might be the TJs "Ritz" crackers so not sure where they fit on the cracker class scale.

My TJ's hasn't had this in weeks and I miss it so much!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ritz crackers are the best with tomato soup! MMMMM

Ma'am, have you tried garlic and cheese croutons?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I opened this thread while eating Ritz crackers with peanut butter on top. Sooooo good. If I had banana slices to add on top then I'd really be in heaven!

Ha! I went and got Ritz and cheese when I was on page 3, and came back.

PP here, I am following up with some Trader Joe's Green Goddess Gouda cheese for the final 1/3 sleeve of Ritz. Actually I think they might be the TJs "Ritz" crackers so not sure where they fit on the cracker class scale.

TJ's is basically 7-eleven for fancy people. So you are in good company!

[Anonymous]

As a kid in the 80’s NY we also had carr water crackers on fancy occasions/when hosting. Ritz were def seen as kid snacks. My parents both grew up poor and blue collar so maybe they were making a conscious effort to be fancy with the crackers?

[Anonymous]

Nothing says class like complaining about the food when you're a guest

[Anonymous]

Triscuits are the best. If plain, I like to eat them stripe by stripe and then stand up and wipe the crumbs off my shirt. I like to get fancy sometimes and nuke them with kraft single pieces on top, then a slice of jalapeno n the melty cheese.

Saltines broken are actually better than oyster crackers in soup.

Wheat Thins are nasty

Melba Toast is lovely.

If we are talking dip-oriented chips I actually prefer pita chips.

[Anonymous]

I’m curious why you didn’t serve her Chicken in a Biskit?