Anonymous
Anonymous
08/23/2025 12:07
Subject: Re:What going on with Cracker Barrel ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Seems to me that CB is doing what every chain restaurant is doing - going for a minimalistic aesthetic void of any personality. Not that I enjoyed their aesthetic before, aside from the porch with rocking chairs. But it makes me sad that every restaurant just wants to be a gray box right now.
Anywho, haven’t been there in decades, but if conservatives are PO’d that they scrubbed a redneck mascot from their logo, I will be giving them some business this weekend.
I’m a liberal who doesn’t like the remodel.
We always visited Cracker Barrels on every road trip. It’s nostalgic. It’s tradition. They were always the same. We have decades of memories playing checkers on the front porch and commenting about the farming tools on the walls. It’s how my kids learned how corn is planted.
I won’t see the shadow of our former road trips the next time we visit. My gen Z kids have also expressed disappointment. They appreciated the tradition.
This isn’t about politics to me. It’s about family, tradition, and memory.
My hometown used to have a Shakey's Pizza. We should have rioted with pitchforks when they took it away. Now we only have our high school named after Robert E. Lee and no one remembers Shakey's Pizza.
My country is dying.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 12:04
Subject: Re:What going on with Cracker Barrel ?
I'm wondering if there's a point when the wholesale attacks on women in the public sphere are going to become an issue for women (especially white women) or not. I kind of feel like not is what is happening. It's pretty chilling.
Anonymous
Anonymous
08/23/2025 12:02
Subject: Re:What going on with Cracker Barrel ?
Anonymous wrote:This is the controversy:
Online carnival barkers/professional grievance stokers are making a huge hissy fit.
Frankly, I am almost certain that the consultants who changed the logo did it on purpose to pick up the outraged eyeballs. All news is good news.
I honestly have never noticed that white dude on their logo before, but now that they have removed him I am outraged as a person who once had ancestors in Tennessee. My heritage is being erased.
Anonymous
Anonymous
08/23/2025 11:36
Subject: What going on with Cracker Barrel ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They were doing horribly because the food and service weren't the same. Lots of millennials like me had a tradition of Cracker Barrel for road trips and would have kept it up for nostalgia reasons with their own kids but the place is awful now. No basket of biscuits, painfully slow service and the food tastes frozen. I gave them a few chances and it wasn't worth the 60-90 minutes extra to our driving time anymore.
We ate there twice this summer on road trips, and they brought us biscuits, service was fast, and the food tasted the same as always.
I believe you but corporate policy on the biscuits has changed. They used to bring you a basket full as soon as you sat down. Now you have to request them and then they bring you one per person in your party, on a plate, usually with the meal.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 11:33
Subject: What going on with Cracker Barrel ?
Anonymous wrote:Go woke, go broke. Sometimes it really is that simple. Another example of how to alienate your customer base, without having a new target customer base.
They should start giving out annual “Bud Light” awards to companies that have large marketing blunders like this.
These companies are run by people who do not use the product and loathe the people who do. They are brainstorming about how to make the brand attractive to the type of people they would socialize with. If they destroy the brand in the process, oh well...there's always a golden parachute and a new C-suite job handed to them on a platter.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 11:27
Subject: What going on with Cracker Barrel ?
Go woke, go broke. Sometimes it really is that simple. Another example of how to alienate your customer base, without having a new target customer base.
They should start giving out annual “Bud Light” awards to companies that have large marketing blunders like this.
They should start giving out annual “Bud Light” awards to companies that have large marketing blunders like this.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 11:22
Subject: What going on with Cracker Barrel ?
Anonymous wrote:I actually feel like you can argue that the previous logo was derogatory toward white people. I mean, they put a redneck white dude next to a barrel and call it Cracker Barrel. Lol. To be clear, I am not offended by it. It’s just funny to me that they removed the “cracker” and Rs are in a tizzy over it.
IKR?!?! Lol
Anonymous
08/23/2025 10:00
Subject: Re:What going on with Cracker Barrel ?
Anonymous wrote:Seems to me that CB is doing what every chain restaurant is doing - going for a minimalistic aesthetic void of any personality. Not that I enjoyed their aesthetic before, aside from the porch with rocking chairs. But it makes me sad that every restaurant just wants to be a gray box right now.
Anywho, haven’t been there in decades, but if conservatives are PO’d that they scrubbed a redneck mascot from their logo, I will be giving them some business this weekend.
I’m a liberal who doesn’t like the remodel.
We always visited Cracker Barrels on every road trip. It’s nostalgic. It’s tradition. They were always the same. We have decades of memories playing checkers on the front porch and commenting about the farming tools on the walls. It’s how my kids learned how corn is planted.
I won’t see the shadow of our former road trips the next time we visit. My gen Z kids have also expressed disappointment. They appreciated the tradition.
This isn’t about politics to me. It’s about family, tradition, and memory.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 09:53
Subject: Re:What going on with Cracker Barrel ?
All this upset when a refresh and/or name change may be all it takes to turn the place around. Who's to say that many years from now, people who love "CB-Zone" or "CB's Place" (or whatever new name they go with next yr) won't be upset when those logos get changed. Stay positive people.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 09:17
Subject: What going on with Cracker Barrel ?
I thought this was the new conservative approach, scrubbing people out of history and logos and removing words like “black” and “female” from DoD websites so we can pretend that everyone has an equal shake and all the “isms” are solved. Now suddenly when the old white guy is erased, it’s a problem?
Anonymous
08/23/2025 09:03
Subject: Re:What going on with Cracker Barrel ?
Anonymous wrote:Why it's the Uneeda Biscuit made the trouble
Uneeda, Uneeda put the crackers in a package, in a package
The Uneeda Biscuit in an air-tight sanitary package made the Cracker Barrel obsolete, obsolete
Worst rap I've ever seen.
Anonymous
08/23/2025 08:59
Subject: What going on with Cracker Barrel ?
I actually feel like you can argue that the previous logo was derogatory toward white people. I mean, they put a redneck white dude next to a barrel and call it Cracker Barrel. Lol. To be clear, I am not offended by it. It’s just funny to me that they removed the “cracker” and Rs are in a tizzy over it.