crackers

i am thinking that we don't have these in England. thank goodness! i think that if we did they would be like the "local" people from The League of Gentlemen.

when i was much younger, i used to think cracker referred to the pale pasty color of white people's skin... like a saltine.... oops. anyhow, cracker is much more fun to say as "cracka!"

My online #Sinister chat nickname is Crackers, as the first time I went on it was post-Xmas lunch about 3 years ago. It stuck.

that's just crackers mark! hohohooohooooohooooooo :):):)

What about Crackers from Female Trouble? "I can getcha a job at the baths, Mary.

I've heard 3 different explanations of how "cracker" came to be slang for poor white southerners.

1. from "whip-cracker" referring to brutal slave-owners.

2. from "corn-cracker" referring to the practice of cracking their own corn into flour, rather than paying to have it done at a mill.

3. from "cracker barrel", referring to where they would sit in general stores and socialize.

Supposedly #2 is most likely true, if I remember correctly. I wrote a paper on the etymology of racial slurs years ago.