Today when I was out my husband had a couple with peanut butter, and he couldn't eat them because they had a strong chemical odor. I brought the box upstairs when he told me, and they were over a year old, but still, they were just plain saltine crackers, they should have never smelled like chemicals/paint thinner....or???
Opened up two more sleeves and the smell was bad, had to put them in the trash in the garage so the kitchen wouldn't stink up. I never had a cracker smell like that. I looked around online and there were sooooo many complaints about bad chemical smelling saltines, dating back to 2009 and as late as 2017, but I found no site saying exactly why this rancid odor was there. Some people said their crackers were not expired, they were in good dates to eat.
Has anyone here had any bad smelling Saltines or any other type of Nabisco crackers that had to be tossed? Some people said they actually got physically sick from them. Won't be buying them anymore, I used to eat them as a kid, but they've lost their charm.
So does matzah count, despite operating in a shady netherworld between bread and crackers? Back to the recent spike in cracker sales. It’s due in part to the new-found popularity of gluten-free crackers, which saw a nearly 44% rise in sales (unflavored ones even more, at a whopping 60% jump!). Soda crackers are a leavened bread that is allowed to rise for twenty to thirty hours. After the rise, alkaline soda is added to neutralize the excessive acidity produced by the action of the yeast. The dough is allowed to rest for three to four more hours, to relax the gluten, before being rolled in layers and then baked. A quick sniff test can generally determine whether milk has gone bad after a best by date passes. But it's harder to tell with other drinks or foods.