Why Do They Call Them Club Crackers?

The crackers had their distinctive time-intensive cuisine — swamp cabbage, hoppin’ john, corn pone — and favored architectural styles meant to make cooking in the brutal Southern summers more bearable. There were baseball teams called the Crackers.

It was in the late 1800s when writers from the North started referring to the hayseed faction of Southern homesteaders as crackers. ” [Those writers] decided that they were called that because of the cracking of the whip when they drove slaves,” Ste. Claire said.

Originally branded as a product of Keebler, it became a product of Kellogg’s after Kellogg’s sold the Keebler cookie lineup as well as rights to the Keebler brand name in 2019. Club crackers are a “Light, Flaky, Buttery” snack. In the small snack stack package there are seventeen crackers.

Why did African Americans protest the Florida Cracker Trail?

But many in the county weren’t having it. “African-Americans protested because they thought it was racist and whites protested because they thought it was racist, ” Ste. Claire said. (The school kept the name.)

She told Don West, George Zimmerman’s attorney, that she didn’t think the phrase was racist; West argued that it was . Hold up a second.

By the early 1800s, those immigrants to the South started to refer to themselves that way as a badge of honor and a term of endearment. (I’m pretty sure this process of reappropriating a disparaging term sounds familiar to a lot of y’all.)

Last week, Rachel Jeantel took the stand in the murder trial of George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin after an altercation. Jeantel was on the phone with Martin moments before the fateful encounter. Jeantel said that Martin told her that a “creepy-ass cracker” was following him.