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

Well-cured and dry, it lent itself to grating and tasted fine on an old-fashioned buttered soda cracker.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton