When I was quite young my dad let me watch Spaghetti Westerns with him. Specifically The Man with No Name trilogy was usually on TV so we’d watch that. I thought the movies were way too long and they moved along as slow as molasses. It took a while for anything to happen. As a kid I definitely did not have the attention span for this so I would fall asleep.
I have a better appreciation for these films now although there is a trigger for me to fall asleep every time they are on. There are exciting moments but it takes a while to appreciate the big pay-off.
This is also true with Carr’s Water Table Banquet Crackers. They are very thin crackers used primarily as a hub for other ingredients to lay around and take all of the credit. There isn’t much going on with them. They are made with wheat flour vegetable oil and salt. They are thin enough that you would get nervous piling other ingredients on the cracker but the circumference of the cracker is large enough that it kind of makes it easier for spreads and light cured meats to rest.
I had my crackers with goat cheese and salami. The goat cheese spread evenly onto the sturdy cracker and the salami wasn’t overbearing for the thin little guy. They are a perfect companion to your charcuterie board.
But are they good on their own? Yes. They are in a very bizarre way. I enjoy them because they have no real flavour. They are so thin that there isn’t a lot to deal with.
It’s the most uneventful event in eating something I have experienced. It is the purgatory of snacking and I love it. There is a refreshing feeling of eating something that isn’t overloaded with flavours. That’s usually the selling point for a lot of snacks but not this. It is the perfect minimalist cracker to dip into your soylent.
