soda cracker

American  

noun

1. a thin, crisp cracker or wafer prepared from a yeast dough that has been neutralized by baking soda.

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Etymology

Origin of soda cracker

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

What we know for certain is that El Submarino sends its seafood cocktails out with red, white and blue packages of SkyFlakes, a soda cracker baked in the Philippines.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2021

The techniques remained as firmly traditional as "Teddy bear, Teddy bear" or "Icka backa, soda cracker."

From Time Magazine Archive

"How else is the shopper to know that something as innocent as a soda cracker contains 4 gm of saturated fat?" asks Cincinnati's Dr. Glueck.

From Time Magazine Archive

“What about,” Gilly asked, her mouth going dry as a stale soda cracker, “what about my real mother?”

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson

Cut cakes as large around as an ordinary coffee cup or cut with a knife into small, oblong pieces, a little larger than half a common soda cracker.

From Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Thomas, Edith