I mean the Cracker Barrel building is just made up. I don’t think they changed the design of the exterior. Cracker Barrel isn’t a repurposed Best Buy now. Don’t know if I added anything to the conversation here 😂

incredible post. no notes.

Maybe just one. Fuck off with your disinformation you fucking moron

Communism is when logo change

i like how you can’t really tell if mancow is endorsing or disagreeing with communism here

It’s so perfectly 2014

*Brutalism 🤓☝️

pff, that's not even real soviet brutalism.

I can’t tell if this is right-wing (claiming all the changes are communism) or laughing at those assholes (showing 4 rebrands and labeling one as communism sarcastically).

Capitalists, seeing something capitalist in capitalism: What are we, fucking COMMUNISTS?

So communism is when we capitalism ourselves into the most boring people? Got it.

What the fuck is wrong with you America is so fucking screwed

That's literally Capitalism

I'm at the pizza hut! I'm at the cracker barrel! I'm at the combination pizza hut and cracker barrel!

Cracks me up that they don’t realize the capitalist pressure to be all things to all people to “maximize and increase profits” is the reason for the rebrands. Being “mild” is the definition of end stage capitalism.

New Communism album looks dope.

Under communism you still eat shitty fast food, but in new buildings.

Not just new buildings, new buildings with absolutely no individual character. It represents how all citizens need to be equal or something.

The push towards minimalism and brutalism is a signifier of fascist tendencies. This was a subtle but consistent part of the visual aesthetic of fascist regimes throughout the 20th century.

the nice thing about the new Cracker Barrel sign is I spend less time figuring out what it is and more time not thinking about eating there

FailCow hasn’t been the same since his short radio career flamed out and he’s been pushing sketchy supplements to make ends meet

Mancow is still around?

these people are just dead weight at this point there is no recovery from this level of brain rot

Communism is when square

Lol ok

And all of the older designs were unique and fun. This new style of “everything is just a box” is gonna look like dated garbage In 20 years.

Private Equity

They’re cancerous

communism is when private equity firms buy multinational brands

These shitty, modernist buildings are 100% because of capitalism

Didn't notice the use of Creed here

I see this and think, "oh the food tastes like shit in the buildings on the right."

When really, this is peak communism bsky.app/profile/coda...

The Leatherface of fast food lmao

Communism is when international corporations make it easier to close stores and sell of assets by designing everything to be as generic and easily replaceable as possible.

This is capitalism. They're reducing iconic brands to fungible assets, as buildings with no particular identity are easier to sell.

Why are you worried about that? This is clearly capitalist.

Communism is when roof flat.

communism is when things change

once Stalin introduced Макдоналдс to America it was over 😔

the double beet burger really changed america's mind about the cccp

what goes in in these people's minds. why are they like this.

Nothing but fascist propaganda. and Because the fascists keep them stupid intentionslly

Today I learned from one of the country's stupidest men that Communism is when Late Stage Capitalism happens.

Seriously, I can't believe ManCow is even alive anymore, let alone somehow "relevant" :D

They need real things to worry about.

Why is there a period? Lol

Mancow Muller, now there's a name i haven't heard in ages!

this is what happens when you refuse to have actual history and culture

Communism is when square building

no jobs no hope no cash :(

I mean, I'd call it low-effort contemporary brutalism

Evolution.

Its so clearly due to capitalism that it hurts. I hate it here. We all want the same things but the conspiracy theorists can't ever see the correct cause.

the new buildings look modern

What a tool. Fucking mancow...is he still relevant?...or alive.? Another reason white American men turned into hot garbage.

(observing the vampire shedding its human disguise) what is this touchy-feely bullshit

Communists have been messing with McDonald's ever since they opened in 1954 www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-fo...

they just demolished one of those in SE portland a few years back-- it was being used as some kind of party annex for the actual mcdonalds

pizza hut reverted their branding to the old logo like 8 years ago??

Yeah, and every major fast food chain started adopting that boxy, “modern” styling at least 10-15 years ago to give all their locations a uniform look. They make big styling updates at least once a generation, it’s called refreshing your brand’s image.

And it's the cheapest way to build a functioning building quickly. Not sure if thats Comm. or Cap.

Definitely more capitalist. They all have a McMansion vibe about them, there’s an easily identifiable style but it’s generic, unimaginative and soulless. Communist fast food joints would be more strictly utilitarian and probably pre-fab for maximum efficiency.

it’s why every fucking new build apartment complex is the same 5-over-1 construction; it ain’t because contractors are woke libs who love minimalism, it’s because it’s cheap as fuck and fast to build

Trying to pull a fast one. Real Taco Bell's had a fire pit.

I love that one!!

hell yeah i like taco bell*

pop in there and grab an enchirito

Bell Beefer...

Capitalism is literally the reason for these changes. It's so that land can be easily resold. Communism is when Capitalism

are we in communism? Siri play Creed-higher

Communism is when capitalist fascists hold control of the executive, legislative, and Judicial branches of the federal government.

At least they stopped going on about A-19 lightbulbs

30 years ago we used to skip school just to drive around getting high and listening to Mancow on the radio, this is the first time I’ve seen his name in decades

No no this is an architectural push by capitalism to make everything sleek and modern to appeal to the tech industry. It’s why McDonalds started serving Coffee they were trying to be Starbucks and it works too. This is the market adjusting to the people who have wealth. Which again is tech people.

Satire but still, that’s where this bs comes from

What the fuck do people keep mistaking capitalism for communism? It’s the weirdest goddamn thing. This is capitalism. If they want to close the franchise and sell the building they don’t have to completely demolish it if it’s an anonymous rectangle. What do you think communism means?

Nothing to do with communism. Brands are just adopting a minimalistic style.

it's hard to imagine mancow going to any of these places, but i do think i remember a story he told of going into a cracker barrel and seeing a bunch of troops so he bought everyone's meals 😢🫡

Is he as horny on Instagram as he is on Twitter?

Not so much. It’s more just memes that call things that are very capitalist “communism”

Grok is enabling his divorced mode more than I realized.

Communism is when capitalism 💭

www.instagram.com/reel/DNyYYYu...

Communism is when cracker barrel

Communism is when capitalism does capitalist things.

These idiots would be on our side if they took a minute to have principles

This is t real capitalism, real capitalism has never been tried.

I promise you privately owned corporate design trends changing to maximize privately owned corporate profits on resold real estate is not communism. Quite the opposite actually.

Communism is when corporations spend money on renovation

Mancow was the last person to talk to the guy on the Cracker Barrel sign before he died

Mancow's Madcow Moment

all these corporations decided to change their builds into simple boxes because they learned their lesson on having iconic shaped buildings no one wants to buy. just look how easy it would be to turn any of those redesigned buildings into something else. any of those could be a chiropractor

I cannot honestly believe that Mancow is still alive

GOP who call Dems communists and chastise them for it.... the GOP have no problem siding with Russia and actually engaging in communism.

...what?

www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

No I know that obviously, it's the idea that Russia, a hyper-capitalist country, and the Republicans are somehow doing "communism" that is confusing.

Tell me you don’t know what communism is without telling me you don’t know what communism is

Communism, when your favourite brands spend millions on rebranding. Can never forgive USSR for introducing New Coke, but fortunately Ronnie Reagan tore down that wall and brought back old Coke

Ronnie's "new coke" was the CIA cooking crack.

Communism is when private equity groups choose similar designs for all of their real estate holdings so that vacant buildings can be filled by other subsidiaries without extra build out cost. Or something like that.

Really seems like an issue with Building Codes

I suggest: Expand your horizons. Embrace new & positive change. Don't sweat the small stuff. And logo change is definitely small stuff.

communism is when corporate design trends change

But definitely not when the government takes a 10% stake in the means of production.

The nature of the government determines that. Considering this government is fascist, and the 10% stake is not being evenly distributed to the citizens, this is in fact fascism and not communism/socialism in the slightest.

They can take the fast food restaurant roofline from my cold, dead hands!

Communism is when landowners require flexible architecture on their property to increase resale value.

Bro this is capitalism

On the one hand, Communists murdered 60 million human beings. On the other hand, this.

Communism is when no more slanty roofs.

"back in my day." rebranded to "communism"

The wild thing is it’s the opposite. Corporations want a building easy to repurpose later for another owner. An old Pizza Hut or McDonald’s will always look like an old Pizza Hut or McDonald. Bland boxes can be something else in a week.

Crappy, bland corporate rebranding is communism. Having to see gay couples existing in public is communism. The pitch clock and runner on second base in extra innings? It’s the Red Menace. His $1150/mo payment on an F-150 King Ranch? You guessed it.

They keep threatening the sick with health...

eight indistinguishable pictures of shithole dining places serving you frozen bagged prefab at a 50% markup is actually also not capitalism

youtube.com/shorts/kO-E7...

Communism is when sleek corporate design.

I’m….not sure you know what…communism is lol

Did Cracker Barrel repurpose an IKEA?

Not an expert but so of these refits seem more cost effective than communist

We aren't, it's fascism. The polar opposite.

Just realized this is satire lmfao

communism is when architecture

They didn't teach us that simplified logos = communism in art school. Weird.

I mean... all these logos are worse. This does seem like something Stalin had in mind 🤷‍♂️

How does fucking Mancow still have a following

Communism is when there are rectangles.

I thought communism was when someone with blue hair served you coffee.

Yes. They are non-binary and their name is rectangles.

The "R" in USSR stood for rectangle. Few people realize this.

I mean you're not wrong. The USSR was named Union of Soviet Socialist Rectangles after the famous Malevich painting

Basically shame on anyone who doubted me.

I am still mad at the rectangles. 1990s Taco Bells, Stained Glass Pizza Hut Chandeliers, and the pre-paintjob Nickelodeon Studios were peak design.

Bring back swooshy graphics on small trucks and paper cups.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_%2...

It's funny how even knowing a little of the timeline of this design now, it still feels timeless, as though it was always already when I was a kid, but that was a decade earlier.

I just feel like im in a mall when I see this

Never forget what they took from you.

Burnout 3: Takedown-ass graphic

The international symbol of free market hyper-capitalism.

Jazz mentioned! 🙌🙌🙌

Bring back small trucks. Big trucks are communism.

Resisting the urge to scream about emissions regulations and auto-lobbyists killing the ability to for anyone make or sell small trucks in the US in response to what I fully understand is a joke comment.

I’m just glad someone got the joke. It’s everything bad about communism but the workers don’t control the means of production, a bunch of suits and bean counters do.

80s and 90s mini-trucks were a perfect thing and capitalism took that from us. Pickup trucks are now all luxury SUVs with sandboxes attached to the back. Single cabs died off because the salesmen who can afford new $90k trucks need quad cabs to take other salesmen to business lunches. AAAAAAAAAAA

Okay I feel better.

what the fuck are these people even mad about anymore dude

no this is cummunism

Communism is when you rebrand the Taco Bell

Mancow? Now thats a name I haven't heard in a long time

They're literally Little Boxes. Maybe if they were on a hillside, or made of ticky-tacky?

Smartest mancow thought

I welcome our brutalist fast food future

That new Communism logo sucks

Bring back the beloved hammer-and-sickke!

Communism is *Check notes * capitalist companies crushing our souls in the cheapest way for them. Noted.

You are clearly ignorant as fuck.

Sees capitalism in action "Look at all that communism"

Huh. Weird, all this time I thought everything rebranding to look like a prison was a damning endictmenr of capitalism, but I appreciate this dude enlightening me via Creed.

Mancow out there making my point for me. bsky.app/profile/clay...

"Creed - Higher" *chef's kiss*

How would he know, he famously couldn’t afford any fast food in his misspent youth….unless

Communism is when fast food restaurants look like boardroom window frames, got it

Things change.

how are they still mad about the pizza hut redesign from 20 years ago

I mean, I'm still mad about it honestly.

Because any change they dislike is a slight against them, even past change.

My brothers a magat. This is exactly what he’s been like his whole life. Things were always better before & why can’t things be like they used to be. ‘92 version of him why can’t things be like ‘88 ‘88 version why can’t things be like ‘84 ‘84: thing were better in ‘80 ‘80: it should be like ‘76

They don't have a lot going for them, so they have to invent problems.

I personally love all the nail salons, Chinese restaurants, and optometrist offices in old pizza huts.

bro, fuckin MANCOW

That’s not, that’s not how, that’s not how this works. Also please use the /s if this post was a joke

I'm actually surprised the orange man hasn't yet seized the means of McDonalds production. His access to hamberders is critical to the national interest.

holy shit mancow is still alive? (i don't know why this surprises me so much, but it does)

Communism for Shareholders ass design language.

Communism is when fast food restaurant

"Make the mcdonalds grey and square" -Carl Mark

Obligatory / The three true guy outcomes

Communism is good because the Taco Bell is a Peter Francis Geraci law office

CAN YOU TAKE ME HIGHER? TO A PLACE WHERE BLIND MEN SEE! *Guitar riff* CAN YOU TAKE ME HIGHER?!? TO THE OLD MACDONALDS…

Imagining creed playing behind this as oop intended really takes this post higher

Imagine making this collage and not including the Arby's hat.

“Creed - Higher”

It means he likes it

communism = cheap brutalism, the more cheap brutalism and when all of the buildings are cheap brutalism its Democratic Kampuchea

Ahem.

communism is when fast food corporation

Accept no substitute (when ordering greasy cow anus)

Someone needs to go back to school urgently

bsky.app/profile/midn...

Wait - they're saying that spending hundreds of millions on corporate rebranding is "communism?" I don't get it.

omg mancow was the last person to talk to capitalism before it died ...

Communism is why we cant McRib ALL the time

Has the proletariat seized the means of production of hash brown casserole?

wait is cracker barrel the communism or is it all of them i don't understand

the ones on the right aren't even photos, they're renderings lmao

you don't understand! square buildings are communism!

Don’t even get me started on Ponderosa!

It's incredible that the people who fear-monger about communism use examples of life under capitalism to show how bad communism is. Every time. Like, you'd think that they'd get it right occasionally, but nope.

He was actually in the McDonald's Play Place when they closed it down.

I also don't know what words mean.

That said, every one of those restaurants looks worse after the rebrand.

There's a saying about opinions and assholes.

We did it everyone

"Communism is when buildings are square" Meanwhile, Actual Communist Architecture:

Definitely needs to make a comeback, Communism also

Maybe with less authoritarianism this time, though. Like a LOT less.

Honestly I really like these designs. Would love to see someone take a couple colours of fresh paint on them and they'd be really cool.

Yo that third one tho

This post would be perfectly at home in 2015

Taco Bell changed to the purple jazz look in 1992. It predates The Madhouse!

communism is the urge to reboot a fading brand to increase profits for the shareholders.

Communism is when box

Nah man, thats Capitalism. Gotta make sure something else can move in if the current occupant goes out of business.

keep in mind. cracker barrel caters mostly to the elderly and hillbillies. you can’t take the cracker off cracker barrel when that’s your customer base it’d be like renaming old country buffet to country kitchen and serving food with salt on it.

He got banned from the movie theater where he lives for complaining about the pride flags in the lobby to staff excessively. Mostly spends his time getting smoothies around town, so it tracks that this is his quadrant of the culture war.

Oh mother of God mancow is still a thing!? Why!

Someone needs to subscribe to Guys+ and get up to speed, because Mancow is VERY much alive.

I'm on episode 3!

I’m a weirdo and listen from current to oldest. I’m always like “Oh, that’s where that bit came from,” and I get excited when I get to the first appearance of a guy.

hahahaha i didn't notice that

*capitalists do something capitalist* "Is this communism?"

Free serving of biscuits 'n gravy on presentation of valid International Communist Conspiracy membership card.

Our Cracker Barrel, Comrade

You wish, fast food is actually good in China.

Capitalist oligopolies stop needing tonadvertisenbecusee they've killed the competition. That's very much capitalism in its final stages.

I will say that it makes me a little that it’s almost impossible to find a Pizza Hut restaurant anymore, except off a highway

i really think a lot of these people want to be graphic or industrial designers and just don't know it

Damn, guys. Wrap it up, I guess. We won

Communism is when capitalism

Communism is when late stage capitalism.