My quest to deconstruct and remake everyday ’component’ foods continues, this time with some undesired results. The target this time? Graham crackers. Store-bought baked goods have a lot of special-interest groups to appease, like shelf life, shippability, sturdiness for packaging, and uniformity. Now I know that graham crackers are probably one of the best candidates to be mass-produced, because, well..they’re just crackers, and by their nature, easily shipped and stored. But part of this little food crusade involves getting to know foods from their birth onward, so it’s as good a target as any, and probably an easy way to start, right? Not so much. My first attempt resulted in some pretty, umm.. grim crackers. It seems those conniving cracker crafters with the factories are more clever than they look. Let’s look at grahams, shall we? Here are the store-bought, genetically pure little snack clones: And here are my grisly deformed little embarrassments...
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