nPostednon April 18, 2015
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nCelebratenanimal crackers today!
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nOfncourse, you’ll want to eat some—straight out of the Barnum Circusnbox, or maybe in the frosted cookie version, or maybe floating innyour soup!
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nAnothernway 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). |
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nAnimalncrackers were first brought to the U. S. in the late 1800s. Since nand there was a huge demand for them, so American bakers began tonmake them, too.The first U.S.-produced animal crackers were made bynStauffer’s Biscuit Company in Pennsylvania, in the year 1871. Soonnseveral local bakeries came together to form National BiscuitnCompany, which soon became NaBisCo (Nabisco).
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nThenpopular Barnum’s Animals circus-themed box was first introduced inn1902. Some brilliant Nabisco worker suggested putting a string on thenboxes, which sold for five cents, so that they could be hung on anChristmas tree. These small boxes of crackers were a huge hit!
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(Untilnthat time, crackers were almost always sold in bulk out of a crackernbarrel.)
(Untilnthat time, crackers were almost always sold in bulk out of a crackernbarrel.)n
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nI read that, overnthe years, there have been 54 different animals represented bynBarnum’s Animals!
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nChecknout how many different animals are in one box.
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nDoes every box haventhe same kinds?
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nI have no idea about the answer to these questions –nI think it would be interesting to find out!
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- Todaynmore than 40 million packages of Barnum’s Animals Crackers are soldneach year around the world.
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- They are baked in a 300-foot-long oven atna rate of about 12,000 cookies per minute!
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- The company attachesnalmost 8,000 miles of string every year to those 40 million boxes!
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nAlsonon this date:
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nRecord Store Dayn
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nHigh FivenDay
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nWorldnAmateur Radio Day
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nPaulnRevere Day in the U.S.
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nBirthdaynof lawyer Clarence Darrow (famousnbecause of the “Monkey Trial” about teaching evolution)
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nAnniversarynof the publishing of the first crossword puzzle book
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nAnniversarynof Albert Einstein’s death
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nPlannahead:
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nChecknout my Pinterest boards for:
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nAndnhere are my Pinterest boards for:
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nMayn holidays
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nHistoricaln anniversaries in May
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