Crackers & Cookies

Until now, I’ve kept my mouth shut about this, but it’s time that somebody said what we all know to be true, The “Fat” Police have ruined all of the commercial baker’s crackers and cookies, and I’m mad as hell about it!

The commercial bakers, in their rush to capitalize on the “low fat” and “fat free” crazes, and to appease the “Fat Police,” have left us only crumbly, albino-like, tasteless cracker and cookie products to buy. A pox on all of their houses I say, a pox!

Now, when bringing your long cherished favorites home from the grocery store, all the while taking care as to not bang, bump, drop or bruise them, you are deeply saddened to find that the damage that you had done your best to prevent had already been done for you, by the bakers, shippers and stock clerks who seem to pay little concern to the condition of the crumbly, washed out, tasteless, remnants of your (my) childhood favorites, leaving you only a spectral shadow of the goodies that you once enjoyed with reckless abandon.

Even as they were cooling on the production line, these mere “shadows” or your childhood favorites have a lessened visual appeal; their colors are not as deep as those of your (my) memory; they look “cheapened” somehow.

Yes, along with removing (or drastically reducing) the oils/fats, they made these tender morsels more subject to breakage, less visually appealing and less tasty. This is the bakery equivalent to being a history revisionist, and the whole damned thing stinks to high Heaven.

If I had the power, I’d make all of the commercial bakeries produce both the old and the new recipes/formulations for say, three months, to give US the choice; then let’s see what they decide to do on their own after they look at the sales figures. I’m betting that, although there may be a market for both, the traditional products will far and away outsell the IMO, inferior new products, at least, among those of us with taste buds and memories.

What say you?