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Huh, and here I thought it had to do with the cracker and the barrel on the logo.
Soda crackers/saltines have always just been called crackers here. Sometime people from out of town call them saltines but that just gets a small delay in response while we realize what they were referring to.
Why the fuck wouldn’t you just use boxes? The goddamn crackers are square. What a waste of space.
That's what I was surprised by. Maybe barrels were very common and the round shape was more resistant to stress/impacts than crates at the time? Although someone said the crackers at the bottom didn't hold up that well so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I suppose you can roll barrels, making them easier to move around. That’s the trade off for the lost space.
They used cheap busted beer barrels that the breweries chucked out.
that restaurant is so boring i hate america
Crackers take, nothing more exciting than saltines
TIL Americans don’t know what crackers are, I thought all the white people comments were just jokes.
Nothing sounds worse to me than dusty crackers from an old wooden barrel. Beer, sure, but crackers is sailing coloniser bleak.
The nostalgia is the point. Nobody stores crackers in barrels anymore, but everybody did then because it was the best option at the time. Same reason the save icon is a floppy disk.
Nostalgia for crackers in a barrel? It was (apparently badly) tongue in cheek, but also but like nostalgia really huh, interesting.