Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The incredible, crumbling saltine cracker

In my opinion, the Nabisco Saltine Cracker can be freely interpreted as being an institution:
An institution is any structure ….governing the behavior of a set of individuals within a given human community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institution

As a structure, I am saddened to report the crumbling of the structure know as Nabisco Saltine Cracker. It crumbles in your hand while trying to make a peanut butter sandwich which is something you have done for years.

Making a sandwich using Nabisco Saltine Crackers may very well have been your first successful experience in the kitchen and progressed to your working years of preparing a quick and fugal lunch to having various toppings on it at evening gatherings with old friends and relatives. In your world, the Nabisco Saltine Cracker was one of the truly reliable structures.

In total disbelief and denial, you watch in horror as the little square vessel you are holding in your hand trying to spread peanut butter on does literally dis-integrates before your eyes. You watch as the history of your relationship with the now thinner Nabisco Saltine Cracker bites the dust. You watch it breaking apart with its crumbs scattering onto the countertop and onto the floor around your wheelchair and you find yourself fighting back the tears.

As always,
BB

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