An Internet Sleuth Uncovered the True Origin of the Name “Triscuit” - Twisted Sifter

Triscuits were the taxable of a riveting Twitter thread involving electricity. Twitter idiosyncratic Sage Boggs’ thread connected the taxable became truthful fashionable that helium changed his bio to “Triscuit guy.”

Sage’s communicative begins respective years ago, erstwhile helium randomly saw a container of Triscuits astatine a enactment and wondered aloud astir the root of the name. “It’s intelligibly based connected the connection ‘BISCUIT,’ but what does the ‘TRI’ mean?”

Several years agone I was astatine a enactment (BRAG!), and I spotted a container of Triscuits. I asked everyone, "What does the connection 'Triscuit' mean? It's intelligibly based connected the connection "BISCUIT," but what does the "TRI" mean?" (I'm large astatine parties.)

— Sage Boggs (@sageboggs) March 26, 2020

People guessed that the “tri” astir apt stands for three, arsenic it usually does. But nary 1 could fig retired the truth, adjacent aft Googling, truthful they virtually emailed Nabisco to ask. That’s erstwhile things got truly strange.

Nabisco wrote back, and they said that the “tri” doesn’t mean three, but that cipher knows what it does mean. “No concern records survived which specifically explicate the origins oregon inspiration for the sanction Triscuit,” the email says.

"The "TRI" does not mean 3." How… however bash they cognize what it DOESN'T mean, but NOT cognize what it DOES mean? HOW??

— Sage Boggs (@sageboggs) March 26, 2020

Naturally, Sage had to support connected digging, truthful helium Googled adjacent harder and recovered immoderate aboriginal Triscuit advertisements. They showed that, successful the aboriginal days of the company, the selling constituent of Triscuits is that they were “baked by electricity” — backmost erstwhile energy was a caller thing.

I was baffled. And I couldn't basal not knowing. So I did a small sleuthing online, and stumbled connected immoderate aboriginal Triscuit advertisements. Take a look astatine these atrocious boys: pic.twitter.com/jbeBUmjeCF

— Sage Boggs (@sageboggs) March 26, 2020

“That’s erstwhile it clicked,” helium wrote. “TRISCUIT MEANS ‘ELECTRICITY BISCUIT.'”

Amazingly, the Triscuits societal media squad saw this thread and retweeted it to corroborate this caller fact. “We had to spell each the mode up the ladder but we CAN confirm,” they wrote.