Can someone explain these to me?

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As we sat down to our Christmas lunch this year (well, last year now, but you know what I mean) Little One asked if we had any crackers. We hadn’t bought any, because they are normally relatively expensive for what is basically a cylinder of thin card with a terrible joke, a paper hat that makes you look like an idiot and a useless gift that almost always gets thrown away immediately or else just clutters the place up for years afterwards. Just a waste of money and materials. We all agreed that they are a waste of time, and that we should have made our own instead. But of course it’s no use thinking of that just a few minutes before you need them! So with that in mind, I thought I would plan ahead. Crackers aren’t particularly difficult to make, since they mainly consist of a cylinder of card and some decorative paper, and we already have a large collection of toilet roll inner tubes and plenty of used wrapping paper we can re-purpose. The only part that can’t be home-made are the snaps, which are of course what make them ‘crackers’. So I thought I would have a look now, and then we could be organised in plenty of time! I Googled ‘cracker snaps’ and found a few suppliers. I was intrigued by these (see link below) which claimed to be eco-friendly and which suggest you re-use your crackers - but I was stumped by the description of them as ‘silent and pet-friendly’. If a thing, the sole purpose of which is to make a ‘bang’, is silent, what does it do? And what’s the point? Maybe they just confer that bit of added tension as you pull the cracker - but then anyone who’s ever pulled a cracker that failed to go ‘bang’ would know what a disappointment that is! Anyone ever tried them? All rights reserved. © Text copyright Fleur 2022. Image from Pixabay.