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Crackers

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We hardly ever buy potato chips or corn chips. I like snacking on fresh fruit and cheese. Husband prefers to have olives, figs, and dried apricots for an afternoon nosh. He also loves saltine crackers and nuts, though, the crunchier the better. I can’t stand hearing his crunching. To be fair it really is my issue, since I can’t stand hearing anyone crunch on things.

I occasionally need some graham crackers for pie and cheesecake crusts. I have to hide them after I buy them, as Husband will eat them all before I bake. Most crackers I can take or leave, but I recently got some extremely thin sea salt and herb crackers from this Italian import place we like to order from. They are called Pane Carasu, and are from Sardinia. You can see them in the header photo. They are really quite delicious. I can even tolerate Husband’s crunching on them.

The new crackers have inspired Husband to get out our Nordic Baking Book and choose some crisp bread recipes to try. He also plans to make crackers from his sourdough discard. I am sure they all will be noisier to eat than the Sardinian crackers. I will just go into another room when he eats them.

What are your favorite snacks? What noises irritate you? What do you imagine it is like in Sardinia?

36 thoughts on “Crackers”

  1. I have a favorite cracker. Trader Joe’s Trail Mix Cracker that Occasional Caroline turned me onto a couple of years ago. I also really like a trail mix that I get at Aldi’s called the Indulgent Mix. It has nuts and raisins and three kinds of sweet chips (chocolate, white, and butterscotch). I have to limit myself with this by measuring out one helping or I could just eat it forever.

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  2. Currently I don’t snack. I could say meals are my snacks. I don’t start eating until about 1:00 and then I eat meals in parts until about 8-9.
    Clyde

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  3. I am a huge potato chip guy. They call out to me oldies kettle chips are best Plain and barbecue, although almost any chip will do crackers. I enjoy, but they don’t call out to me for snacks last night. I had a peanut butter and orange marmalade jelly sandwich, and the leftovers of a bag of chips and that was perfect along with a cup of iced tea. Tortellini calls out to me and I mix that with tomatoes, feta, black olives, olive oil, and that sort of thing calls out to me for my snacks I tend to whip up a lot of potato and onion kind of things and beans get a big part of my mix in the Bean variations are endless and I haven’t found a Bean yet that I don’t like black beans and some fancy kinds of black beans are probably my favorite in that category. Sardinia is rocky Craigie gusty and 70° with salty old fisherman and rustic wonderful restaurants.
    my sound irritation has always been crunching ice and chips. Come to mind but only because those are the most regular if someone’s eating celery or radishes or something even of that constitution and I’m in the same room I need to plug my ears or leave the room people get really pissed because I can chew my own potato chips and make all the noise in the world and it doesn’t bother me but when I hear somebody else do it it’s like fingers on the blackboard and I can’t stand it. It doesn’t seem fair, but it is reality kind of like life.

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  4. I like peanuts?
    Upspeak is noise?
    Making every sentence a question is annoying?
    I’d imagine Sardinia is hot and dry?
    I’ve just annoyed myself?

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  5. I love mixed nuts (50% salt at Trader Joe’s is best), and just about anything with a cream cheese dip – esp. TJ’s Fig and Olive crackers. Also a coconut milk-based pudding I find at the co-op, will have to learn what it’s called so I can find a recipe, make it at home.

    Husband gets the lumps out of Malt-o-meal by just tapping at the lumps with his spoon (thinking he’ll spear them?). It can go on for several minutes, and I start to grind my teeth. I’m trying to model STIRRING behavior…

    I believe tim about Sardinia.

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  6. Rise and Shine, Baboons?

    Favorite snack: toast and jelly

    I sometimes eat chips, but not regularly. When I do eat them, they taste so good, but I find them easy to say no to. I cannot say no to toast and jelly. As I said above, the Trader Joe Trail Mix crackers are delicious and thank you to occasional Caroline for that. I am mobile again, so I should be able to resupply later this week.

    My grandmother left behind a recipe for what she called Flat Bread, but it is a very fragile cracker. She made huge batches of this for holidays, then stored it in an old hat box lined with waxed paper. Ihave made several attempts at making this, but I must do it in smaller batches than her recipe. It takes practice rolling it thin enough which is what I need to do. I would love to keep it around for snacking because it is a delicate texture with a mildly sweet and tangy flavor that loves a little butter on top. Grandma taught me to make many of her recipes, but I was not present when she made that one. I am sure she made this when the house was empty, then hid the flat bread or it would have been eaten immediately but the hoards of grandchildren.

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    1. I forgot to respond to sounds: neighbors on both sides have gas powered leaf blowers. So noisy and obnoxious. The sounds drive me buggy. You can hardly talk in your own house. And the Bad Neighbor uses his incessantly.

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  7. I have such a weakness for Saltine crackers that I had to stop buying them about 6 years ago. Lately, for salty-crunchy, I’ve been having pretzels, which are rather innocuous.

    I imagine Sardinia to look much like the wilder parts of Southern California, where I grew up.

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  8. Noises? Explained often on here about my sensitivities to all sensory input.
    A mystery for you. A storm cell moved through last night. During the storm five little plastic bags appeared in front of my patio. Couple of the bags had a Dried leaf or two in them. Care to explain in fantasy or in real world terms?

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    3. These are dime bags. Someone smoking weed in the building, which is illegal. But why did they appear in a storm? Had he left them on his deck above me and the rain washed them off? If he is caught, it is immediate eviction.

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    4. Did the leaves have any identifiable scent? Could be someone packaging dried catnip to distribute to the pets of their friends. Lemon balm or mint for iced tea flavorings. Oregano and basil for sauces.

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  10. Living in the city with lots of houses close to me and no air conditioning, which means lots of windows open, and on a busy street, I’m kind of inured to neighborhood noise.

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  11. Favorite snacks:
    pretty much anything sweet or containing chocolate
    Food Should Taste Good multi-grain chips (Costco on occasion)
    Four Brothers Mango Habanero salsa (Cash Wise here in town) with either the above MG chips or blue corn tortilla chips
    Triscuit
    Nuts of all kinds–cashews & pecans are faves

    Irritating noises:
    leaf blowers
    loud car/motorcycle engines
    TV volume too loud
    Mumbling- or Low-talkers, and those who pause every other word (not like stuttering, which is forgivable. More like unsure of what to say or how to express what they’re trying to say.
    The announcers yelling “Goaaaallllllllllllll!” when someone scores during a soccer match.
    gas lawnmowers at dinnertime when we’re eating on our porch
    Etc., etc.

    Sardinia?
    Since it’s in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, I assume it has a temperate marine climate (maybe on the warm side), but probably fairly green because I assume it gets decent rainfall every year.

    Chris in Owatonna (who just got decent rainfall in the past 24 hours: 1.625 inches. Drought has been staved off for another few weeks at least But the AQI??? Yeesh! 800 something in poor, unlucky Grand Portage today. No one seems safe from climate change anymore.)

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  12. When we came up, the faint shape of land appeared ahead, more transparent than thin pearl. Already Sardinia. Magic are high lands seen from the sea, when they are far, far off, and ghostly translucent like ice-bergs. This was Sardinia, looming like fascinating shadows in mid-sea. And the sailing ships, as if cut out of frailest pearl translucency, were wafting away towards Naples. I wanted to count their sails—five square ones which I call the ladder, one above the other—but how many wing-blades? That remained yet to be seen.

    – D. H. Lawrence

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  13. But soon we begin to climb to the hills. And soon the cultivation begins to be intermittent. Extraordinary how the heathy, moor-like hills come near the sea: extraordinary how scrubby and uninhabited the great spaces of Sardinia are. It is wild, with heath and arbutus scrub and a sort of myrtle, breast-high. Sometimes one sees a few head of cattle. And then again come the greyish arable-patches, where the corn is grown. It is like Cornwall, like the Land’s End region. Here and there, in the distance, are peasants working on the lonely landscape. Sometimes it is one man alone in the distance, showing so vividly in his black-and-white costume, small and far-off like a solitary magpie, and curiously distinct. All the strange[Pg 130] magic of Sardinia is in this sight. Among the low, moor-like hills, away in a hollow of the wide landscape one solitary figure, small but vivid black-and-white, working alone, as if eternally. There are patches and hollows of grey arable land, good for corn. Sardinia was once a great granary.

    Usually, however, the peasants of the South have left off the costume. Usually it is the invisible soldiers’ grey-green cloth, the Italian khaki. Wherever you go, wherever you be, you see this khaki, this grey-green war-clothing. How many millions of yards of the thick, excellent, but hateful material the Italian government must have provided I don’t know: but enough to cover Italy with a felt carpet, I should think. It is everywhere. It cases the tiny children in stiff and neutral frocks and coats, it covers their extinguished fathers, and sometimes it even encloses the women in its warmth. It is symbolic of the universal grey mist that has come over men, the extinguishing of all bright individuality, the blotting out of all wild singleness. Oh democracy! Oh khaki democracy!

    The Sea and Sardinia

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  14. Peanut M&M’s… or Reeses cups. And cheetos. Or corn chips. I like a lot of snacks! Too many!

    I’m not sure it’s specific noises as much as just when and how. Daughter in the other room, talking out loud while I’m trying to watch a show will just grate on me. Kelly says just to ‘tune it out’. Yeah, right.

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