Jeri Smith-Ready: Quick poll

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Quick poll

Since my food-related posts seem to get way more comments than any others, I'd like you to settle something for me:

Graham crackers: are they cookies or are they crackers?

posted by Jeri @ 5:29 PM
17 comments

17 Comments:

cookies

Jim Young

Posted by: Anonymous at 9/21/2005 9:58 PM

crackers

Jess

Posted by: Anonymous at 9/21/2005 10:00 PM

I vote cookies, because they're sweet. Last week, I spent several minutes fuming in the cookie section of the Weis:

"Here are the Teddy Grahams, where are the frickin' graham crackers? I need to make s'mores. I want my graham in a non-Teddy format!"

They were in the cracker section. Hence the poll.

And yes, I talk to myself a lot in grocery stores.

Posted by: Jeri at 9/21/2005 10:12 PM

It's a cracker. Albeit one with sweeter ingredients than a typical cracker. Also, I imagine that the dough that is used to make a cracker is different than the dough used to make a cookie.

Besides, it's a CRACKER!

--Christian

Posted by: Anonymous at 9/21/2005 11:06 PM

Cracker. Give 'em a look. They're divided into quarters, almost perforated. So you can crack 'em.

Posted by: Rob S. at 9/21/2005 11:57 PM

Cracker.

They distribute them freely in schools and hospitals. They wouldn't do this with cookies.

Now does the addition of cinnamon sugar change anyone's response?

Posted by: PapaGoose at 9/22/2005 10:04 AM

Only if you consider involuntary drooling a response, Pavlov.

Posted by: Rob S. at 9/22/2005 10:25 AM

At least everyone seems to know better than to raise the gravey/sauce debate.

Cecilia

Posted by: Anonymous at 9/22/2005 7:34 PM

Christian is correct. The dough is different than used typically to make cookies; it is more cracker-like, even if we've trumped up the sweetness factor quite a bit.

So Sayeth The Baker.

I buy the low-fat ones and let the kids eat them with peanut butter. That still has less sugar than if I'd used jelly.

Posted by: Sharon GR at 9/22/2005 8:19 PM

Ok, honestly, I eat them with peanut butter too.

I had to come clean.

Posted by: Sharon GR at 9/22/2005 8:20 PM

Well, I have to defer to the expert (Sharon) on this one. But for the record, I was thinking of the ones with cinnamon sugar. Why buy the plain ones? I mean, really, they cost the same.

Posted by: Jeri at 9/22/2005 8:49 PM

Cracker - no doubt about it.

Posted by: Mark at 9/23/2005 6:02 AM

(singing) "I was born with scum like you -- I like peanut butter too!"

(From the Bizarro-world's Les Miserables)

Posted by: Rob S. at 9/23/2005 10:55 AM

They do make the low-fat ones with cinnamon sugar. And they're yummy.

They taste good with Nutella or peanut butter. Mmmmm...

Posted by: Sharon GR at 9/26/2005 5:42 PM

We used those exact graham crackers (low-fat cinnamon sugar-coated) to make s'mores this weekend. The campfire caramelized the cinnamon sugar to make a tasty glaze.

[insert Homer Simpson drooling noise]

Posted by: Jeri at 9/26/2005 5:53 PM

No need to prompt me for the drooling noise. It's there already.

Everyone is always all about the chocolate. We need more cinnamon.

Posted by: Andrew at 9/26/2005 11:23 PM

IF YOU CONSIDER THEIR USE IN ICE BOX CAKE, THEN THERE ARE 2 MORE IDENTITIES. CAKE OR CRUST.

Posted by: Anonymous at 9/27/2005 12:38 PM