Animal Crackers Uncaged In New Box Design

CBS Boston ^ | Aug. 21, 2018 | staff reporter

[Daffynition]

BOSTON (CBS) – Animal crackers are being released from their cages after 116 years.

You may not recognize the packaging of Nabisco’s classic treat Barnum’s Animals crackers the next time you’re in the grocery store.

The exotic animals – a zebra, elephant, lion, giraffe and gorilla – pictured on the box are no longer behind bars, but featured roaming around grass and trees.

The package redesign comes after pressure from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The group called for a change saying the outdated boxes showed the exploitation and cruelty animals are subjected to in the circus.

Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus shut down because of slow ticket sales in May 2017.

[Daffynition]

[freedumb2003]

I think this is OK.

The “bars” looked pretty old-fashioned anyway. Zoos haven’t used cages in decades.

[fruser1]

They should’ve made the critter nazis pay for the change.

[Daffynition]

I, for one am triggereded by the *cracker* in the name. I'm tired of being called a *cracker*.

To heck with Nabisco anyway.

[Daffynition]

I suppose is OK with you that Barnum & Bailey Circus closed b/c of PETA?

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Harambe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NorthMountain]

Zoos haven’t used cages in decades.

Irrelevant. The animals weren't being depicted in a zoo, they were being depicted aboard a circus train. Barnum wasn't a zookeeper ...

The real story here is a reminder that the anti-human filth organization destroyed The Greatest Show on Earth.

A plague on them.

[Daffynition]

Take a Shot with Harambe

[MUDDOG]

[Flick Lives]

I kind of like the redesign. As a kid, there was something neat about your own personal box of crackers/cookies. I don’t see a string. The boxes long ago had a little string strap to carry the box.

[Daffynition]

[Daffynition]

Geez. When did they lose the string?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

What I want to know is:

Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?

[Phil DiBasquette]

When did B.Hussein’s cabinet make it into the box?

[MUDDOG]

In the dock!

[a fool in paradise]

would the lion and the gorilla be getting along like chums with those other animals?

[Fresh Wind]

An elephant but no jackass?

The liberals will freak out!

[a fool in paradise]

At least they've used an old circus banner style design for the new art.

[Fresh Wind]

I like these animals better!

[Jamestown1630]

Won’t be the same without the string...