I've been wrong for a quarter century - yikes!

[susandennis]

Nabisco Graham Crackers in the red box were a staple at our house growing up. We at them for breakfast (crumbled up with milk over them - YUM!) for lunch, for desserts, for snacks - with butter, with peanut butter, with chocolate or just naked. I loved 'em. When I moved out to the west coast, I was devastated to discover that they don't have them out here.

They don't have lightening bugs either which is a shame but no Nabisco Graham Crackers is a crime.



We have Nabisco Honey Grahams (blue box) but not Graham Crackers in the red box. So for 25 years - more really since they didn't have them for the 2.5 years I lived in California, either - I have suffered. Not silently, of course. I bitch about it to anyone who will listen.

ljtourist always patiently listens to my rants and pays close attention when they are about food. And was in Pennsylvania last week and brought me back a red box!!!

But, before producing the box, he laid out two crackers - one a little darker than the other. One was Honey Graham and one was Graham Crackers. I tasted both and told him that what turned out to be Honey Graham was actually the Graham Cracker!

Turns out they do vary slightly in both taste and texture but they have the same amount of sweet (I always thought the Graham Cracker was less sweet) and they are both delicious.

So I have been suffering needless and delusionally all these year. I don't even know what's true any more. My world is now officially upsidedownsville.

Comments

[solteronita.livejournal.com]

Hee! That's pretty funny. Glad you'll no longer suffer. :D

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't surprise me if they ones in the red box were less sweet 25 years ago. Most things in the US seem to have gotten sweeter over the years. It seems to me that today's graham crackers have less graham flour in them then they used too to. They were invented by a man who was against white flour, yet the main ingredient in them today is white flour.

[susandennis]

Excellent point! I could have been decreasingly correct :)

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

We are a blue box family. :-)

[susandennis]

not that there's anything wrong with that :)

[rejectomorph]

According to the Honey Maid web site, their recipe was most recently updated in 2010, so your taste test wasn't done on the grahams you'd have been eating during previous decades anyway. Most likely the Nabisco's original recipe has been changed over the years, too. I know that a lot of products today don't taste the way I remember the same brands tasting when I was a kid.

I never knew that Nabisco's grahams in the east were different from those in the west, though. It turns out that Honey Maid was the brand name of grahams produced by the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company, which Nabisco took over in 1930. I guess they just decided to keep the familiar name for their western customers, the way Best Foods Mayonnaise had done in the east when they took over Hellman's in 1927.

[susandennis]

wow. great intel there. and, i do feel way less delusional :0

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

I pretty much ALWAYS have graham crackers in my kitchen. The blue box ones.