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"A pair of Georgia crackers" as depicted by illustrator James Wells Champney in the memoir The Great South by Edward King, 1873. Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial epithet directed towards white people, [1] [2] [3] used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States. [4]
Among some Georgians, the term is used as a proud or jocular self-description. Since the influx of new residents into Georgia from the northern United States in the late 20th century, "Georgia cracker" has become used informally by some white residents of Georgia of Scots-Irish and English stock, to indicate that their family has lived there for many generations.
The texture is close to a traditional wheat-based cracker, bringing a great crunch without any unpleasant gumminess. Our tasters broadly agreed that this is a gluten-free cracker that everybody ...
The term cracker was in use during the Elizabethan era to describe braggarts and blowhards. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack, meaning "entertaining conversation" (which survives as a verb, as in "to crack a joke"); the noun in the Gaelicized spelling craic also retains currency in Ireland and to some extent in Scotland and Northern England, in a sense of 'fun' or ...
The first thing most testers noted about this cracker from Walmart’s store brand Great Value is that it was very pale in color. Several also noted that it was pretty crumbly because of its thin ...
Edward King (1848–1896) was an American author and journalist born in Middlefield, Massachusetts.His 1875 travel memoir The Great South is an important historical document about U.S. society in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War, and it formed part of the backlash against Black civil rights during Reconstruction.
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Ingredients. 2 tablespoons unsalted butter. 1 cup white onion, diced. 2 cloves garlic, minced. 1 (10.5 ounce) can condensed cream of chicken soup. 1 cup sour cream