Posted
on April 18, 2015
Celebrate
animal crackers today!
Of
course, you'll want to eat some—straight out of the Barnum Circus
box, or maybe in the frosted cookie version, or maybe floating in
your soup!
Another
way to celebrate them is to listen to Shirley Temple's “Animal Crackers in My Soup.”
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| Stauffer's crackers (above) are not as detailed as Nabisco's (below). |
Animal
crackers were first brought to the U. S. in the late 1800s. Since
and there was a huge demand for them, so American bakers began to
make them, too.The first U.S.-produced animal crackers were made by
Stauffer's Biscuit Company in Pennsylvania, in the year 1871. Soon
several local bakeries came together to form National Biscuit
Company, which soon became NaBisCo (Nabisco).
The
popular Barnum's Animals circus-themed box was first introduced in
1902. Some brilliant Nabisco worker suggested putting a string on the
boxes, which sold for five cents, so that they could be hung on a
Christmas tree. These small boxes of crackers were a huge hit!
(Until
that time, crackers were almost always sold in bulk out of a cracker
barrel.)
I read that, over
the years, there have been 54 different animals represented by
Barnum's Animals!
Check
out how many different animals are in one box.
Does every box have
the same kinds?
I have no idea about the answer to these questions –
I think it would be interesting to find out!
- Today more than 40 million packages of Barnum's Animals Crackers are sold each year around the world.
- They are baked in a 300-foot-long oven at a rate of about 12,000 cookies per minute!
- The company attaches almost 8,000 miles of string every year to those 40 million boxes!
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