Please pass the butter!!!

Crackers and butter.  Has there ever been a better combination of foods?  I don't think so.  I'll bet I've been eating these things since the day I started walking.  Earlier than that, probably.  I'll be eating these things until the day I die, I'm sure.  Or the day they stop making them.  Whichever comes first.  Both are pretty horrible to think about, so let's move on.

As I ate a Sailor Boy Pilot Bread cracker yesterday, with just the right amount of butter spread across the top of it, the thought of those old yellow metal butter cans came to mind for some reason.  I guess you just don't forget the things you really love, huh?  One pound cans, were they?  And stored at the bottom of the freezer?

Being a regular cracker eater over the decades, I've noticed that the crackers have come in what seem to be different batches.  Inconsistencies at the plant?  Who knows.  Some batches seem to have been not cooked or baked enough.  Or whatever it is they do to make a cracker a cracker.  My all-time favorite batches have been the ones that come with little dark crispy bubbles on the top.  I know some people that pop them into the toaster, but I don't like them that way- they seem soggy.

When I was 7 or 8 years old, I was at a friends house and we decided to have one of our favorite snacks.  While this friend was buttering their cracker, we got into an argument over which side of the cracker was the top.  Seems like very sloppy preparation to butter the bottom side of a cracker.

So which side is up on a cracker?  Does anyone remember the brand of butter that came in those yellow metal cans?  How many cans did you buy at a time?  Did the butter come wrapped in paper inside those cans?