This time we asked over the years how many different animals have been presented in cookie form in Nabisco’s Barnum’s Animal Crackers? And which animals have always been, and can still be found in the box? To answer: “Over the years, 37 different animals have been included in Barnum’s Animal Crackers, but the only ones to have survived the product’s entire lifetime are bears, elephants, lions, and tigers.”
Read more about animal crackers in: Hopkins, J. (2015). animal crackers. In The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 18 Nov. 2022.
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