It's good to know these things

Here's a little quiz for you.

Well, not exactly a quiz because I'll be telling the answers here. But anyway.

Let's say you have a box of graham crackers and you pull out one of the packets of crackers. How many graham crackers are in that packet? That's the quiz question.

Here's the answer. Nine.

Certainly you have noticed the box getting thinner as the years have gone by. I have.
Perhaps you don't count the graham crackers. I do. And I know there used to be 12 crackers in a packet. Just right for the Yum-yums recipe my mother-in-law passed along to me.

So I noticed when there were only 11. A couple of years later, 10. Now nine. This means that instead of getting 36 graham crackers in a box, we're getting 27, and don't be thinking the price has gone DOWN. No sirree. It keeps going up.

I suppose it's possible they could cut it down to eight. Heck, I know it's possible. And then what?

Here's what I don't know. Are the graham crackers themselves as big as they used to be? I hope so. I'm making Yum-yums today, and I want them to be at least okay.