I’d ignore the old and buy the new. I barely noticed the older design was pushing an interesting variant on the core Ritz cracker. I don’t mind classic Ritz crackers at all, but almost never seek them out, even if there is an entire bay of value added variants, because they don’t seem different enough.
I find it mildly disturbing that I can’t think of them without the Andy Griffith ad coming to mind now.
I ate them much more often before that campaign.
Ritz product diversification seems to be taking the same route as Triscuits and Cheez-its. With either ‘flavor added l’ on one hand, or crispy chip form on another
By the way, the crispy chip form of Cheez-its is very good imo.
I often prefer the original but in this case the new one is way better.
The position of the crackers in space made no sense on the old one, especially since the cheese was still forced to adhere to the laws of gravity. Now the crackers have to sit on the ground too, which works better.
But the tiny cheese on the old one made more sense because the crackers were closer to the viewer and larger.
Now the cheese looks comically small and I’m left wondering how big the crackers are.