# Graham crackers are the best thing ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 23, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045 "2013-10-23T18:09:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/21 "2013-10-24T09:32:28Z")
I’ve been hearing about Graham crackers since _Leave it to Beaver_. Never tried one, though. I wonder why some things become international and others remain For US Consumption Only. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/22 "2013-10-24T14:07:55Z")
> [@orderfire](#): > > I have to deliberately NOT BUY the cinnamon type …! There’s a _cinnamon_ type?! Where? WHERE, DAMMIT! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/23 "2013-10-24T14:27:29Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > There’s a _cinnamon_ type?! Where? WHERE, DAMMIT! Nabisco’s Honey Maid brand has had [a cinnamon variety](http://www.amazon.com/Nabisco-Honey-Maid-Crackers-Cinnamon/dp/B00512KJXA/ref=sr_1_13?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1382624748&sr=1-13&keywords=graham+crackers) for as long as I can remember; my mom would buy them for us when I was a wee lad (late 1960s / early 1970s). ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/24 "2013-10-24T14:28:36Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > I wonder why some things become international and others remain For US Consumption Only. Because you Aussies didn’t have enough anti-sex whackos in the 19th century. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/25 "2013-10-24T17:02:45Z")
I must seach these out in my local groceries. Perhaps I will leave work early! ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/26 "2013-10-24T17:34:23Z")
When I was little I’d eat them soaked in milk. Now I eat them spread with cream cheese, and in all the usual piecrust configurations. And S’mores, of course. And occasionally, plain. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/27 "2013-10-24T22:24:54Z")
Cinnamon sugar coated graham crackers are, and have been, plentiful forever! I’m sure they are in every grocery store in the USA. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/28 "2013-10-25T06:41:18Z")
I eat my graham crackers with Nutella. Yum! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/29 "2013-10-25T12:03:04Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Cinnamon sugar coated graham crackers are, and have been, plentiful forever! I’m sure they are in every grocery store in the USA. Apparently I had a deprived childhood. Maybe my mom kept me out of the cereal aisle to keep me ignorant! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/30 "2013-10-31T17:56:26Z")
Just had a graham cracker with maple syrup drizzled over it and spread with tart cherry jam. Not too shabby. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/31 "2013-10-31T18:15:03Z")
Graham crackers are very good. But I don’t love them involved in s’mores. I don’t love s’mores. They’re a camping travesty that I assume everybody else just pretends to like. Barely warm chocolate with a too-sweet mass produced travesty of marshmallow? Yuck. Do this instead: Buy good marshmallows. Buy Nutter butters. Open two Nutter Butters and put on rocks next to fire. Roast good marshmallow. Put half of marshmallow on each Nutter Butter and reclose. Enjoy living in heaven. You can also do with your own peanut butter (though that gets runnier when hot) and graham crackers and is also very good. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/32 "2013-10-31T18:35:58Z")
Like Ned Flanders, I like mine plain “with a glass of water on the side for dipping.” Just kidding. I like them with milk. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/33 "2013-11-01T00:26:08Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Graham crackers, broken into little squares, in a bowl, add milk and eat with spoon. Yes. Also occasionally spread with cream cheese and strawberry preserves. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/34 "2013-11-01T02:38:56Z")
Not if you and every damn one of your sibs threw up graham crackers on a moving train. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/35 "2013-11-01T04:47:15Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Graham crackers, broken into little squares, in a bowl, add milk and eat with spoon. This. I don’t even bother breaking them into little squares; I just crush a couple fistfuls into the bowl. The kind with cinnamon are great this way too. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/36 "2013-11-01T21:18:50Z")
[ul] [li]Plain or cinnamon.[/li][li]Spread with peanut butter.[/li][li]Spread with cookie butter.[/li][li]Spread with peanut butter AND cookie butter.[/li][li]Spread with \*chocolate cream cheese \*spread.[/li][li]I like **orderfire** ’s lime curd idea.[/li][li] **papergirl** , I’ve had them like that, but with nuts & chocolate chips scatted on top before the gooey butter-sugar caramelization. [/li][/ul] Dang it, guess what my after-work snack is gong to be today? ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045/37 "2013-11-01T21:31:08Z")
We have some of [this stuff in the pantry- the chocolate kind](http://www.jif.com/Products/Details?categoryId=276&productId=1191) - wonder how that would go with graham crackers? I may have to buy some and find out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graham-crackers-are-the-best-thing-ever/672045.md?page=1)