Plain oyster crackers are sometimes seasoned with various spices or pepper sauce and served as an appetizer or snack.

In other areas of the United States, they are among the choices for crackers with soup or salads and are often available in restaurants in single serving packages.

Many different companies produce oyster crackers with different combinations of shortenings and other ingredients, but retaining the same general shape and size.

He invented a machine that rolled and docked pastry and solved the sanitary problems of hand-rolling crackers.

Manufacture of the Exton oyster cracker was started in Trenton, in the same location now occupied by the company's factory of Center Street, in 1847.