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| Montpelier Crackers |
Well yes. A picture. Writers prerogative.
I've mentioned a hundred times that on Sunday night, growing up of course, my father's favorite dinner was tomato soup (Campbell's) and egg noodles - the fine ones.When he was a kid, his father had some issues and was put into a home. His mom kept things together. That was their meal, he, Jimmy his brother, and Mary, his sister. I don't think they had a lot else by Sunday night.
When my dad got a promotion with Gulf Oil sometime in my early remembrance his big deal splurge was to order a tin of Vermont Common Crackers. They started in 1828 as Montpelier (Vt.) " Cross" crackers and then went to a more generic name. When he was a little kid in northern Vermont, there was a "cracker barrel" in the local store (in Common Cracker history - a cracker barrel held 1200 crackers and a family bought a barrel to eat with soup). It would last them the winter. These little buggers were hard as rocks but my dad loved them. He remembered when he was 5 and going to get them to eat with local jam.
Now, in what may be my last really "with it" Christmas, I sent off my order for all my family.
Makes me happy.