Triscuit's name has nothing to do I Am a Playthingwith the number of layers the cracker has — it's actually a portmanteau of two completely unexpected words.
According to the company, its name actually stems from "electricity biscuit." The snack's real name was revealed in response to a Twitter thread from writer Sage Boggs.
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Boggs emailed the parent company, Nabisco, after try to guess where the name "Triscuit" stemmed from.
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"No business records survived which specifically explain the origins of inspiration for the word Triscuit," the company told Boggs in an email. "But we do know the name was chosen as a fun derivation of the word 'biscuit.' The 'TRI' does not mean 3."
Boggs, "baffled" and still curious, did some digging and unearthed Triscuit's original advertisements.
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Triscuit's early selling point, Boggs said, was that it was "baked by electricity" — the company was run out of Niagara Falls and powered the production process from the then-novel invention.
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Which means, Boggs realized, that "Triscuit" stands for "elec-TRI-city bi-SCUIT."
It's mind blowing.
Triscuit confirmed the realization in a quote tweet on Thursday.
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And blessed us all with this good meme.
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So there's your daily fun fact to keep you entertained while social distancing.
