{"id":5113,"date":"2011-03-23T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2011-11-08T23:04:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T07:04:26","slug":"why-crackers-are-called-crackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/why-crackers-are-called-crackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Crackers are Called Crackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Why-crackers-are-called-cra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5114\" title=\"Why-crackers-are-called-crackers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Why-crackers-are-called-cra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Why-crackers-are-called-cra.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Why-crackers-are-called-cra-340x313.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why Crackers Have Holes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/why-crackers-have-holes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why Crackers Have Holes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The name \u201ccracker\u201d comes from a fateful day in 1801 in Massachusetts when Josiah Bent accidentally burned a batch of what we now call crackers.\u00a0 As the crackers burned, they made a crackling noise, which inspired the name.\u00a0 Bent was also the one who pioneered the cracker as a snack food, not just for sailors rations as his competition were selling them as.\u00a0 To make them popular as a snack food, he knew he\u2019d have to improve on the flavor.\u00a0 He experimented around until he eventually came up with soda crackers, which were precursors to saltine crackers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By 1810, Bent\u2019s cracker business was incredibly successful and it eventually was acquired by the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco).\u00a0 However, you can still buy crackers made by the company Bent\u2019s grandson founded, G.H. Bent Co.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why Crackers Have Holes The name \u201ccracker\u201d comes from a fateful day in 1801 in Massachusetts when Josiah Bent accidentally burned a batch of what we now call crackers.\u00a0 As the crackers burned, they made a crackling noise, which inspired the name.\u00a0 Bent was also the one who pioneered the cracker as [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1323,647],"class_list":["post-5113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-crackers","tag-food-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5116,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions\/5116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}