Why are Triscuits called Triscuits? One writer's investigation uncovers the shocking truth
Most of us have a lot of time on our over-washed hands right now, but if we’re lucky, we’ve also still got a lot of snacks in the pantry to binge on to pass said time. If you’re an enlightened snacker, however, that cabinet is likely stocked with a particular brand of tasty, sodium-packed, wheat-filament crackers known as Triscuits, which we always assumed were named after, like, three different kinds of grain or something. Until this week, that is, when intrepid sleuth and writer Sage Boggs uncovered the truth about Triscuit, and readers, prepare to have your goddamn minds blown.
“Thank you for your interest in our Triscuit crackers,” Nabisco PR began their response email to Boggs’ information request—which, if we’re being honest, kinda sounds like something a sociopath would say. “No business records survived which specifically explain the origins or inspiration for the name Triscuit. But we do know the name was chosen as a fun derivation of the word ‘biscuit.’ The ‘TRI’ does not mean 3.”
A “fun derivation of the word ‘biscuit.’” Yeah, no shit, Nabisco. Anyway, as Boggs immediately points out: If no records exist for the name’s origin, then how can anyone be sure the “Tri” doesn’t mean three? THE PLOT THICKENS.