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a slice of dry crunch designed entirely to be a vehicle for something better on top.
means a thin, dry, usually unsweetened baked good made from flour and water, engineered for snapping and holding toppings.
from named literally for the sound it makes when broken, from the verb crack; the hardtack biscuit was refined in 19th-century america into the graham cracker and saltine we know now.
saltine patentthe term dates to an 1876 trademark.
graham crackerinvented by a minister pushing dietary reform, not dessert.
military hardtackancestor cracker that could survive years unspoiled.
slang usagealso a loaded american term for white southerners, contested origin.