Wheat Thins or Salt Licks?

So yesterday I decided to buy some good cheese and some Wheat Thins. The cheese was great…Red Dragon (mature cheddar with mustard seeds and ale), but the Wheat Thins seemed very excessively salty.

Is it just me or are they making them saltier now? They’re pretty much inedible, they’re so salty. I went to their Web site and finally found a link to contact them. After filling out info like the UPC code and the manufacturing code, I sent them this message:

Good morning. I purchased a box of your original Wheat Thins yesterday and found them exceptionally salty….so salty they’re practically inedible. I have eaten Wheat Thins for years and never found them this salty. Have you changed anything that would account for this change? I’d hate to not buy any more Wheat Thins, but this box will likely end up in the trash and I wouldn’t really want to risk another excessively salty box.

I’ll let you know how they respond, if at all. I bought Triscuits today instead, and they let the great flavor of the cheese come through.

But good grief those Wheat Thins were salty!