You've probably eaten one at least once in your life.

They're found at most parties in holiday gatherings, usually sitting in a bowl beside some cheese

or slices of meat.

If you enjoy your crackers thick and woven with shredded wheat, then you probably love

triskets.

Now, I didn't grow up in a trisket home.

We were more of a ritz cracker family if you ask me, but they were easy to find at family

gatherings.

But even after all these years, I've never stopped to think about what the name actually

means, because try often refers to the number three, and yet these snack treats have

four corners.

I've also heard that it's a reference to the number of layers in the cracker, but even

that has been disproven as the meaning behind the name.

No the truth, it seems, is more than a little shocking.

According to the company that makes them, the word trisket is a mashup of two words,

biscuit and electricity.

Apparently back in the early 1900s, triskets were advertised as the only food on the market

that were baked by electricity.

Thus the name.

And these mistakes are really common.

We think we know something, or someone, only to discover the truth is something else entirely.

Things we take for granted, like phrases or legends, or the honesty of people we know.

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