Council to Decide on Plastic Bags for Big Island

[Kelena]

If you think it is a bad term, then you must not be a cracker. If you are a cracker and you still think it is a bad term, then you are an unschooled cracker.

[Jon]

Glad to see you like to use the term...
I find it offensive.

Transplanted Texan

[Guest]

You guys are cracking me up[:o)]

Hi Ho!

You dang Keebler Elves.[][]

To keep this on topic....

Those Bubble wraps that contain Crackers, Cheese and Meats... those are such a waste of plastics...

But the convenience of these buggahs make them so dang appealing.

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[Kelena]

No intent to offend. The book would make you proud of the term. Just because some people use it pejoratively doesn't make it inherently pejorative. My friend doesn't resent being called a cracker. The English DO think it is a pejorative term. We have a pejorative term for them: Yankees.

[Likalizard]

Damn Yankees! (in Boston this weekend....) LOL - back to
plastics...

Lika


"To err is human, to forgive divine"

[Kelena]

Get a Chicobag! Made by certified crack......uh, by some nice jews who live in Northern California. Available in Pahoa at Island Naturals.

[oink]

Jon and Glen,
You are both right and both wrong. In a milder sense, it's kind or like the "N" word. When referring to yourself or friends or family it's ok and sometimes a badge of honor. When used by someone who does not consider themselves a cracker it is often an insult. My understanding is that it originally referred to a very poor rural (farmer) white person who lived a very meager existence(cracked corn) and was uneducated. A large percentage were/are of Celtic heritage, myself included. (Half Scotch with a touch or Irish and easily traced to Scotland. The other half is either Irish or English. I'm not sure on the latter half as it can only be traced back to N.C. and it can be an Irish or English name. There is some red hair on that side too.) Back to the hijacked topic. Being called a cracker by someone that isn't, generally means they are calling you poor, ignorant and uneducated. If you are a Southerner and call yourself a Cracker, you are claiming that you are Southern, rural and proud of it. It can also refer to early Florida or Georgia cattlemen who were known for their whips which they would crack. Bottom line. If you call me a Cracker, you best be one or have a big open friendly smile on your face while doing it, showing that there was no ill will intended.

Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.

[Guest]

One thing they could do... is drop a law currently in place.

The law that states that retailers must cover up Beer sales with a Bag.

I don't know how many times I've run in for that single Heineken and HAD to accept that damn bag for that one single beer just because it's the law.

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[dirk1609]

That one drives me nuts. Especially when they cover a single beer or a six pack but I can walk out with a case or half rack and no one says a word. Costco will let you walk out with 1.75 liters of Vodka and no bag.
What is the bag for anyway. Do people get offended seeing beer? Maybe the next step will be frosted glass doors where they chill the beer so people cant see that. I would think they would refuse to bag a single beer so that bag isn't hiding that beer for those that drink and drive. I always feel like telling them they have done their job and followed the law then removing my purchase from the bag and leaving the store. Honestly I see more beer cans and bottles along side the road and on the beach than I do leaving the store.

I would REALLY love to have this one explained by the law writers.

[Kelena]

And so, Oink, my usage would have been correct: I referred to my the parents of my lifelong friend, who are also lifelong friends, as crackers --something they would cackle at and admit to. I, myself, am a cracker (born in California though, and jokingly called a "prunepicker" by my parents). I am classic cracker: Scotch, teeny bit of Irish, they migrated to the south over 200 years ago and consorted with indians (Cherokees). One cracker calling another a cracker is not insulting. But point taken -- there are those that might take offense even if it was not directed at them, so I amend my statement to provide that my friend was born to caucasians of the trailer park persuasian and is about as jewish as my left foot. But she's going to the synagogue now, and that synogogue came up with a great idea: Chico Bags. Get them at Island Naturals and support my friend's synogogue. I'm irreligious but these folks are very civic minded.