why are animal crackers called crackers when they taste like a cookie and look like one?

Answer 1

Animal crackers are sweet crackers in the shapes of animals. These are usually animals you would see at the zoo, including lions, tigers, bears, and elephants. Despite claims that they are really cookies, they are in fact crackers due to they way they are made, with layered dough. Traditionally they come in a box with a handle on the top.

Answer 2

Barnum's Animal Crackers
100 Years of Happy Children

Some form of animal crackers have delighted children for well over a century.

In the late 1800's animal shaped cookies called "Animals" were imported from England to the United States. The demand for these crackers grew so much that American bakers began to produce them.

A number of them, including the Dozier-Weyl Cracker Company of St. Louis and the Holmes and Coutts Company of New York City, were predecessors of the National Biscuit Company, today's Nabisco Brands.

Sometimes called "Circus Crackers", other times simply "Animals" these slightly sweet crackers, if not part of a cottage industry, were certainly a local one. Each bakery made its own version, in limited supply, to meet the demands of customers in the immediate area.

As the 19th century drew to its close, bakeries began to unite. Under the name National Biscuit Company banner, Animal Biscuit crackers were made and distributed.
It was 1902 that animal crackers officially became Barnum's Animal and evoked the familiar circus time theme. Later in 1902 the now-familiar box was designed for the Christmas season with the innovative idea of attaching a string to hang from the Christmas tree. These five-cent cartons were a big hit and are still so today. (Up until that time crackers were sold in bulk or in large tins)

With each generation, there have been some changes in the number and variety of animals caged in that colorful little box. In total, there have been 54 different animals represented by animal crackers since 1902. There will probably always be lions and tigers, bears and elephants. But the dog and jaguar have fallen to the hyena and gorilla. Today each package contains 22 crackers with a variety of animals. The Koala is the newest addition, voted on by consumers, beating out the penguin, walrus and cobra. The Koala bear joined the 18 other animals in September 2002.

Although the circus box has gone through updates and changes over the years, it still remains true to its origin -- bright, colorful and fun. There have been three different and limited edition boxes produced in the last decade, still the same shape and size, but with a different design on the box. Endangered Animals box in 1995, the Chocolate Zoo in 1997 and the Marine Collection in 1998.

Answer 3

Because some crackers are sweet, perhaps you have heard of graham crackers.

Answer 4

I think that maybe parents will buy them for their kids because they think they are not unhealthy if they are crackers. I don't know businesses will think of anything to see something

Answer 5

ya

Answer 6

you can't dip them in milk