Talk:Graham cracker

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Contents 1 This means war! 2 Hey maybe a little less hostility? 3 Photo 4 Merge Graham bread here

[edit] This means war!

The Graham CRACKER was an American invention, ergo it is not called a "digestive biscuit". If you Brits had invented it then you could call it anything you wanted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.40.221.78 (talk • contribs)

And the first record player probably wasn't called a record player. Does that mean that it wasn't? Ewlyahoocom 20:15, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

"Probably"?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.11.41.217 (talk • contribs)

OK, so you tell us. What were digestive biscuits called in America in the 1800's. For bonus points, what are they called today? Ewlyahoocom 18:15, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

There's no reason this can't be written in a dialect-neutral manner, which the comment "it is more like a digestive biscuit than a cracker" is not. That comment is rather like adding the opposite comment to the digestive biscuit of "it is more like a cookie than a biscuit."

If anything, the dialect used here ought to be U.S. as (regardless of where it was invented) it does seem to be much more of a U.S. product (my Scottish colleague had never seen or heard of the things before coming here).

However besides the dialectual difference, there is some sense to the comment, as a graham cracker is rather unlike what are commonly called crackers in the United States, in particular being sweet and therefore more like a cookie in U.S. parlance (though the shape of it makes it lean toward cracker).

I'm going to take a crack at rewriting that to be more dialect-neutral.--Ericjs (talk) 20:32, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hey maybe a little less hostility?

Its gram cracker. No reason to get work up over missed facts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.164.86.38 (talk • contribs) 05:36, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photo

I uploaded a photo, taken in my kitchen before a midnight snack, as requested. I removed the tag for "Requesting Photo". I included the dinner knife in the photo to show the scale of the crackers - for those who have never seen a graham cracker!Calbookaddict (talk) 20:27, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge Graham bread here

I have proposed to shift the Graham bread article here as the information there is redundant, and Graham crackers are more prevalent today than Graham bread. Maikel (talk) 09:46, 22 January 2008 (UTC)