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• The reason you can’t get a straight answer for all crackers Randy is they are all made with different ingredients and have different nutritional values. White crackers like Saltine crackers are not a good option, brown, wholewheat may be better but still high in carbs so you won’t be able to have many. On the other hand, something like Dr.
• If you purchase fireworks and do not use them, there are a few things to keep in mind when considering whether or not they are safe to use. Are they expired: If you purchase them last year, chances are good they are still in good condition. To make sure, check for an expiration date.
• Apr 16, 2011 Different types of snacks have varying expiration dates: Potato chips will last one month after expiration date. Crackers and pretzels can last up to three months. One of the longest lasting snacks is popcorn, which has a shelf life of one to two years. There is a myth that Twinkies can last upward of 50 years.

Christmas crackers are festive table decorations that make a snapping sound when pulled open, and often contain a small gift and a joke. They are part of Christmas celebrations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Commonwealth countries such as Australia (where they are sometimes known as bon-bons), Canada, New Zealand and South Africa.

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A cracker consists of a segmented cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper with a prize in the middle,^[1] making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper. The cracker is pulled apart by two people, each holding an outer chamber, causing the cracker to split unevenly and leaving one person holding the central chamber and prize.^[1] The split is accompanied by a mild bang or snapping sound produced by the effect of friction on a shock-sensitive, chemically impregnated card strip (similar to that used in a cap gun).^[1] One chemical used for the friction strip is silver fulminate.^[2]

Tradition[edit]

Crackers are typically pulled at the Christmas dinner table or at parties. In one version of the cracker tradition, the person with the larger portion of cracker empties the contents from the tube and keeps them. In another, each person has their own cracker and keeps its contents regardless of whose end they were in. Typically these contents are a coloured paper hat, a small toy, a small plastic model or other trinket, and a motto, a joke, a riddle or piece of trivia on a small strip of paper.^[3] The paper hats, with the appearance of crowns, are usually worn when eating Christmas dinner. The tradition of wearing festive hats is believed to date back to Roman times and the Saturnalia celebrations, which also involved decorative headgear.^[1]

Christmas crackers are also associated with Knut's parties, held in Sweden at the end of the Christmas season.

History[edit]

The Oxford English Dictionary records the use of cracker bonbons and the pulling of crackers from 1847.^[4]

Tom Smith[edit]

Tradition tells of how Tom Smith (1823–1869) of London invented crackers in 1847.^[5][6] He created the crackers as a development of his bon-bon sweets, which he sold in a twist of paper (the origins of the traditional sweet-wrapper). As sales of bon-bons slumped, Smith began to come up with new promotional ideas. His first tactic was to insert love messages into the wrappers of the sweets (similar to fortune cookies).^[7]

Smith added the 'crackle' element when he heard the crackle of a log he had just put on a fire.^[7][8] The size of the paper wrapper had to be increased to incorporate the banger mechanism, and the sweet itself was eventually dropped, to be replaced by a trinket: fans, jewellery and other substantial items.^[9] The new product was initially marketed as the Cosaque (French for Cossack),^[9] but the onomatopoeic 'cracker' soon became the commonly used name, as rival varieties came on the market.

The other elements of the modern cracker—the gifts, paper hats and varied designs—were all introduced by Tom Smith's son, Walter Smith, to differentiate his product from the rival cracker manufacturers which had suddenly sprung up.^[8]

Tom Smith merged with Caley Crackers in 1953.

A memorial water fountain to Tom Smith and his family stands in Finsbury Square, London.^[10][11]

Art[edit]

A Christmas cracker is the subject of The Party Favor, an oil painting by American artist Norman Rockwell.^[12][13] The painting appeared as cover art for The Saturday Evening Post on 26 April 1919.^[14]

Record[edit]

The longest Christmas cracker pulling chain consisted of 1081 people and was achieved by The Harrodian School in London on 10 December 2015.^[15]

Flight restrictions[edit]

Passengers on commercial flights in and to the United States are explicitly prohibited from carrying Christmas crackers on board or in checked baggage.^[16] In the United Kingdom, rules vary by airline and airport.^[17]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdMcAlpine, Fraser (7 December 2011). 'Part 3: Crackers'. A Very British Christmas. BBC America. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
2. ^'Christmas Crackers USA'. Archived from the original on 14 December 2016. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
3. ^Rarely, they can be much more substantial. In 2009, Harrod's offered a version of Christmas cracker retailing at $1,000: 'Harrods Luxury 6 Christmas Cracker Collection: Bling it up this festive season!'
4. ^OED, Second edition, 1989; online version November 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2010. Earlier version first published in New English Dictionary, 1893.
5. ^Peter Kimpton (2005) Tom Smith's Christmas crackers: an illustrated history, Tempus ISBN0-7524-3164-1
6. ^Margaret Baker (1992) Discovering Christmas customs and folklore: a guide to seasonal rites, p.72, Osprey Publishing ISBN0-7478-0175-4
7. ^ ^abFletcher, Damien (22 December 2011). 'Christmas traditions: The history behind crackers, mistletoe, turkey, stockings, tinsel, mince pies and more'. Daily Mirror. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
8. ^ ^ab'History of the Christmas Cracker'. History. Tom Smith Crackers. Archived from the original on 27 August 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
9. ^ ^abCallow, Simon (2009). Dickens' Christmas. London: Frances Lincoln. p. 138. ISBN978-0711230316.
10. ^'London Christmas Past: The Invention Of The Christmas Cracker' (5 December 2012) Londonist
11. ^'How Finsbury Square Gave The World A Christmas Tradition' (5 December 2014) Londonist
12. ^'Wikiart.org, Norman Rockwell, The Party Favor'. Wikiart.org, Visual Art Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
13. ^'The Party Favor'. ARC (Art Renewal Center). Retrieved 20 December 2018.
14. ^'Saturday Evening Post cover, April 26, 1919'. Best Norman Rockwell Art. 20 December 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
15. ^Guinness World Records; online version.
16. ^'What Can I Bring?'. Transportation Security Administration. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
17. ^'Flying with Christmas crackers 2018: Find out if your airline will let you travel with the festive faves this Xmas'. APH (Airport Parking and Hotels). Retrieved 7 March 2019.

External links[edit]

Media related to Christmas crackers at Wikimedia Commons

Use-by dates are contributing to millions of pounds of wasted food each year.

A new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic says Americans are prematurely throwing out food, largely because of confusion over what expiration dates actually mean.

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Most consumers mistakenly believe that expiration dates on food indicate how safe the food is to consume, when these dates actually aren’t related to the risk of food poisoning or foodborne illness. Food dating emerged in the 1970s, prompted by consumer demand as Americans produced less of their own food but still demanded information about how it was made. The dates solely indicate freshness, and are used by manufacturers to convey when the product is at its peak. That means the food does not expire in the sense of becoming inedible. For un-refrigerated foods, there may be no difference in taste or quality, and expired foods won’t necessarily make people sick.

But according to the new analysis, words like “use by” and “sell by” are used so inconsistently that they contribute to widespread misinterpretation — and waste — by consumers. More than 90% of Americans throw out food prematurely, and 40% of the U.S. food supply is tossed–unused–every year because of food dating.

(MORE: Food Safety: CDC Report Shows Rates of Foodborne Illnesses Remain Largely Unchanged)

Eggs, for example, can be consumed three to five weeks after purchase, even though the “use by” date is much earlier. A box of mac-and-cheese stamped with a ‘use by’ date of March 2013 can still be enjoyed on March 2014, most likely with no noticeable changes in quality.

“We are fine with there being quality or freshness dates as long as it is clearly communicated to consumers, and they are educated about what that means,” says study co- author Emily Broad Leib, the director of Harvard Food Law & Policy Clinic. “There should be a standard date and wording that is used. This is about quality, not safety. You can make your own decision about whether a food still has an edible quality that’s acceptable to you.”

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Because food dating was never about public health, there is no national regulation over the use of the dates, although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) technically have regulatory power over the misbranding of products. The only federally required and regulated food dating involves infant formula, since the nutrients in formula lose their potency as time goes on.

What regulation does exist occurs at the state level — and all but nine states in the U.S. have food dating rules but these vary widely. “What’s resulted from [the FDA letting states come up with regulation] is really a patchwork of all sorts of different rules for different products and regulations around them,” says study co-author Dana Gunders, a staff scientist with the NRDC’s food and agriculture program. Imvu for mac 2020. “Sometimes a product needs a date, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes a product cannot be sold after a different date. Or there is no requirement at all. Even with different categories there is so much variability.” The result is a confused public — and tons of wasted food.

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Correcting these entrenched misconceptions, however, won’t be easy. The report authors say the re-education could start with a clearer understanding of what the dates mean.

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• “Use by” and “Best by”: These dates are intended for consumer use, but are typically the date the manufacturer deems the product reaches peak freshness. It’s not a date to indicate spoilage, nor does it necessarily signal that the food is no longer safe to eat.
• “Sell by”: This date is only intended to help manufacturers and retailers, not consumers. It’s a stocking and marketing tool provided by food makers to ensure proper turnover of the products in the store so they still have a long shelf life after consumers buy them. Consumers, however, are misinterpreting it as a date to guide their buying decisions. The report authors say that “sell by” dates should be made invisible to the consumer.

Jena Roberts, vice president for business development at the food testing firm, National Food Lab, studies “shelf-stable” properties of foods to help manufacturers determine what date indicates when their products are at their best. “The food has to be safe, that’s a given,” says Roberts. “[The manufacturers] want to make sure the consumer eats and tastes a high quality product.”

But she acknowledges that even if the food is consumed after its ideal quality date, it’s not harmful. A strawberry-flavored beverage may lose its red color, the oats in a granola bar may lose its crunch, or the chocolate clusters in a cereal may start to ‘bloom’ and turn white. While it may not look appetizing, the food is still safe to eat. “It’s a confusing subject, the difference between food quality and food safety. Even in the food industry I have colleagues who are not microbiologists who get confused,” she says.

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The report authors aren’t against food date labeling. The system was created to provide more information to consumers, but it’s important that people know how to use that data. “The interest is still there on the part of the consumers, but we want this to be clearly communicated so consumers are not misinterpreting the data and contributing to a bunch of waste,” says Gunders.

While the food industry could make changes to date labels voluntarily — such as having the dates read when food is most likely to spoil — the study authors also call for legislation by Congress to develop national standards that would standardize a single set of dating requirements.

Such standards may already be in the works; following the release of the report, Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-Westchester/Rockland), the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee and author of the Freshness Disclosure Act says she will be reintroducing legislation to Congress that calls for establishing a consistent food dating system in the U.S.

“I look forward to reintroducing this legislation this Congress and working with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to fix this glaring gap in our nation’s food safety laws so that American consumers have the information they need,” Lowey said in a statement.

You can read the full report and recommendations, here.

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