Cheese Nips

Cheese Nips (originally stylized as "Cheese-Nips") were a small cheese-flavored cracker^[1] manufactured by Mondelez International under its brand, Nabisco, they were originally used to compete against Sunshine Biscuit's (now Kellogg's) Cheez-It crackers.

Cheese Nips

Product type	Cracker
Owner	Mondelez International
Country	U.S.
Introduced	1955
Discontinued	2020; 4 years ago (2020)
Previous owners	Nabisco

Portion-controlled packages of Cheese Nips were also sold under the name Cheese Nips Thin Crisps 100 Calorie Packs (Thinsations in Canada).^[2]

History

Cheese Nips, originally stylized as "Cheese-Nips", were introduced in 1955.^[1] After the Kraft merger, they were known as "Kraft Cheese Nips". However, on November 21, 2019, there was a recall on Cheese Nips due to a plastic contamination.^[3] As of 2020, Cheese Nips have since been discontinued according to a Nabisco representative.^[4] They are still sold in Canada by a brand named "Christie" as "Ritz Cheese Nibs" as of 2022, however.^[5][6]

In popular culture

Cheese Nips is the name of Act 1 Track 8 of the off-Broadway musical Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.^[7] In this satire, Sylvia becomes deranged watching her guests prefer Cheese Nips to her other food preparation.^[8]

Statista calculates that in 2016, 1.5 million Americans consumed eight or more bags of Cheese Nips.^[9]

See also

• Cheese cracker
• Cheez-It

References

1. Myers, Dan (February 28, 2017), "Surprising facts about your favorite snack food brands", Fox News, retrieved 2017-10-22, Cheez-its debuted in 1921 and...today they're made by Sunshine Biscuits, which is owned by Kellogg. Nabisco, owned by Kraft, released their own version in 1955 called Cheese Nips.
2. Product Specific Archived November 5, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
3. Nabisco Recalls 11-Ounce Boxes of Cheese Nips Over Plastic Contaminaton, 21 November 2019, retrieved 2022-02-24
4. "[Beta64 Live] Phone stream! - Calling Nabisco #SaveCheeseNips". YouTube. 25 January 2021.
5. General Mills. "Christie Cheese Nips Cheddar Baked Snack Crackers, 1 Box (200g)". Amazon. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
6. "Amazon.com: Christie Ritz Cheese Nips Crackers, 200g/7.1oz {Imported from Canada}". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
7. McPhee, Ryan (July 7, 2017), "Release Date Set for Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Album, Featuring Santino Fontana", Playbill, retrieved 2017-10-22
8. Isherwood, Charles (July 28, 2016), "Review: A Vonnegut Madman Tangled in Thickets of Dark Satire", New York Times, retrieved 2017-10-22, All they want to eat is Cheese Nips, while stuffing the silver in their handbags.
9. Bags of Nabisco Kraft Cheese Nips crackers eaten in the U.S. 2016, retrieved 2017-10-22, The data has been calculated by Statista based on the U.S. Census data and Simmons National Consumer Survey (NHCS).