A new employee at the company had to tell their boss the bad news, but he saw a window of opportunity to get a promotion. When he got to his boss, he told him that the customers really preferred crackers to donuts.
The new employee told the boss that they know two facts;
1) Crackers are better than nothing, and
2) Nothing is better than donuts
If you put two of them together, you get that crackers are better than donuts.