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Buttery?

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I've never had a 'buttery' oyster cracker. They usually taste similar to plain saltines.PrometheusX303 16:08, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(Don't make gospel out of those %s: such figures seem to be rounded to nearest 5 cal.)
I'm a crushed-saltines-&-milk fan, and i remember noticing (with the rest of the box where i first read figures that show they're not low fat, before switching to the fat-free ones) that when skim milk covers those crushed dry-looking saltines, there's a fatty or oily film on the milk.
--Jerzyt 05:33 & 05:57, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The city of Mansfield Ohio also claims to be the birthplace of the oyster cracker, at the corner of West Sixth Street, and North Main Street at the National Bisket Co. (NABISCO) the building still stands there. I dont have the News Journal Article on this, giving the date, but I'm sure it's still in there Archives. Gordon J. Wendling

The article on Nabisco states that the conglomerate was formed in 1898 from the merger of many other conglomerates (some apparently dating back to the 1830s). Is the company from Mansfield, OH named "Bisket" or is it the Nabisco we know today (headquartered in New Jersey)? When was the Mansfield company started?

Westminster crackers of Rutland, VT

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The Westminster Crackers Company of Rutland, Vermont main page is at http://www.westminstercrackers.com/home.cfm Their Oyster Cracker page at http://www.westminstercrackers.com/fs_products.cfm?id=13758 claims they have been making them since 1828 with: "Westminster Old Fashioned Oyster Crackers are baked with the same care and attention originally created in our kitchens in 1828." 67.86.73.252 (talk) 03:09, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Oysterettes

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The old-fashioned ad i mention above, under #Buttery?, states "Oysterettes" as the trademark for the product, carries a slogan close to "The oyster crackers" or "The real oyster crackers", and has a graphic in the upper left corner that is obviously a version of the Nabisco logo, but without the word Nabisco, and maybe without the closed figure under the complex cross. Instead, it had N, B, and either C or Co, probably with N and B left and right of the staff of the cross, above the last (2nd or 3rd) cross-bar, and the C or Co below it. I may have forgotten seeing the name "Oysterettes" before, or never seen it, but my love remembers either seeing or hearing it used in her home of origin. Perhaps this early American history of the product can be verified and included.
--Jerzyt 05:51, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Less Salty than Saltines

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Refs from Foodfacts corroborate this, but these are blocked links in Wikipedia.


  • www.foodfacts.com/NutritionFacts/Wheat-Crackers/Premium-Soup-Oyster-Crackers-10-oz/15926 Oyster Crackers 170mg of sodium in 15g serving (Nabisco brand) foodfacts.com
  • www.foodfacts.com/NutritionFacts/Wheat-Crackers/Premium-Original-Saltine-Crackers-8-oz/3844 Saltine Crackers 220mg of sodium in 15g serving (Nabsico Brand) foodfacts.com