National Animal Cracker Day: Date, History, Activities, Fun Facts

Do you remember eating animal crackers as a child? For many, these sweet animal-shaped crackers bring back memories of their childhood. You can even now feed your kids animal crackers for a snack. They have become a classic because they taste great and they also have a fun look. Below, we’ll reveal what you need to know about National Animal cracker Day!

National Animal Cracker Day:

Every year April 18th National Animal Crackers Day is a childhood favorite celebration. A box of these sweet animal-shaped crackers not only gives a delicious snack but also gives a little entertainment!

Celebrations bring back memories of our childhood and bring back many boxes of animal crackers we share with our friends. Animal cracker refers to a type of small cookie baked in the form of circus or zoo animals such as tigers, bears, lions, or elephants.

The most common varieties are slightly sweet and light in color. However, manufacturers also offer chocolate and frosted varieties. Although animal crackers are made with layered flour, much like crackers, they are as sweet as cookies.

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History Of National Animal Cracker Day:

Animal crackers have been essential for American childhood memories since the last part of the 1800s when they were first imported from England where animal crackers were invented. When recipes for popular animal-shaped biscuits arrived in America, independent bakers began to bake animal herds to meet growing demand.

In 1871, when Stauffer’s Biscuit Company began making their original recipe circus crackers commercially, there were pushes of animal crackers from grocery cracker barrels in American shopping baskets. Stauffer’s one-of-a-kind baking process made a slightly crispy, sweet, cracker-like biscuit that dominated the developing animal crack classification for a really long time. Then, at that point, in 1902, an enormous rivalry showed up that changed the animal cracker industry until the end of time.

Some big changes have taken place, for example, in 2018, the creator of Barnum’s Animal Crackers, Nabisco, changed the image so that animals can roam freely in nature, not inside train cages.

Activities Of National Animal Cracker Day:

• Play With Animal Cracker Poker:

Instead of Penny-Ante Poker, why not increase your participation in today’s game and play for Animal Cracker?

• Surprise everyone with animal crackers:

If you want to spread some love and see a smile on National Animal Crackers Day, greet everyone you meet today with a small box of animal crackers. Remember to treat yourself.

• Take the day-long dunk test:

Have you ever wondered which drinks are best paired with animal crackers? It is a good day to explore with some good old-fashioned unscientific research. Start your day by dunking a few tigers, bears, and tigers in your morning cup of coffee. Then dunk abundantly throughout the day — lemonade, milk, tea, water, cold brew.

After a day of delicious dunking, finish it off with your animal friends immersed in your favorite adult drink. We think red wine pairs, especially with real biscuit-type crackers. And you can post your results on social media.

3 Fun Facts About Animal Crackers:

• That’s quite the menagerie

Nabisco Barnum’s Animal Crackers box contains 37 different animals over the years – Nabisco’s menagerie currently has 19 different animals, the last addition being the koala.

• No rabbits in Curly Top’s soup

In the 1935 movie “Curly Top”, adorable round-faced children’s film star Shirley Temple sang about animal crackers in her soup, including “Monkey and Rabbit, Loop the Loop” – the rabbit was never shown in the animal cracker we are aware of.

• Stauffer’s has an ‘Animal Identifier’

There is help for those of us who have difficulty understanding animals by the cracker shape alone – Staffers Biscuit Company has a “Biscuit Animal Identifier” page on their website with photos of the various animals they are currently creating.

Dates Of National Animal Cracker Day

National Animal Cracker Day Messages & Quotes

• I’d like to wish you a very happy National Animal Crackers Day. Let’s savor the delectable animal crackers that remind us of happier times.
• National Animal Crackers Day serves as a reminder of the good times we had as kids, which never fails to make us smile. Greetings on National Animal Crackers Day.
• On behalf of everyone, happy National Animal Crackers Day. The focus of today is to savor and appreciate the animal crackers.
• Animal crackers are timeless since they always taste so good and make us happy. Greetings on National Animal Crackers Day.
• I’d like to wish you a very happy National Animal Crackers Day. Don’t forget to enjoy the deliciousness of these crackers made with eternal love.

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