The name comes from the barrels of soda crackers that could be found for sale in small-town stores across the American South in the early 1900s; people would stand around the barrels chatting and catching up, similar in purpose to contemporary office water coolers.
Matrim@lemmy.world 2 years ago
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
They are joking about this en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(term)
GreenMario@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Issa joke
pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
That might be where the hate term actually came from 🤔