None of that Dixie deep south crap is my culture anyway, this guy needs to speak for himself
None of that Dixie deep south crap is my culture anyway, this guy needs to speak for himself
“Americans” like it’s the country. 🤦🏽♀️
"Whitest" should have said white trash.
Perpetually aggrieved white people
The restaurant literally started in 1969… this is like getting mad about cultural erasure of Johnny Rockets.
I mean food is apart of culture and a fairly big one, but cracker barrel isn't fucking culture. Grits, biscuits and gravy, in Maine soup is more watery and in my state MI there more cream. That's culture and notice none of its "white culture" cuz it really don't exist
Right wingers be stupid.
It’s a mediocre national chain that is in decline and has been for years. That’s a pretty lousy culture and heritage to claim.
That’s not my culture and heritage! Is that your culture and heritage?
Americans are such fat moronic cry babies.
Hm
I mean, these are the same people who will consider the Confederacy part of their heritage despite said Confederacy lasting less than the Annoying Orange YouTube channel
That’s not fair. The confederacy lasted for 141 Scaramucci’s. Thats about his long it took to build the new “in and out burger” in Vancouver WA.
Not even the restaurant, just the old man in the logo!
I'd like to get Stubb or Flask's opinion, as well.
They should’ve changed the logo to this one if they really wanted MAGA to lose their damn minds:
They treat it like it's been around since the dawn of the nation. They opened in like the 70s
They bottled a show on TV called Hee Haw only it has music that won't scare Gma Those old enough will recall what the decor was going for, they saw it every week when they wanted to catch up on the music scene in Nashville. The other big show was Soul Train, much better restaurant (QuickE2).
If you're in Tacoma and want vegan, QE2 is your go to
If you like faces, Southern Kitchen
“Then they came after Denny’s - and there were no more mediocre overpriced chain restaurants left.”
Chili's is still at large.
can't even say Chili's anymore it's Chilx's
It's so kind that you're willing to bring Denny's up to mediocre.
"Nostalgic Americana" - white people who have never been to a rural area. Wanna know what they sell at the actual old country store? Head cheese and flashcubes that have been on the shelf since 1988.
Make it real and call it Dollar Barrel.
I'm from an actual rural area and I thought Cracker Barrel was just a cheese company until I first saw one of the restaurants after moving away for college. At first I was confused and thought it was some kind of cheese-focused restaurant chain.
...man I remember flashcubes.
This might have been my favorite camera I ever owned. Might didn’t have even beat my SLR camera that I took out a loan for when I was 18 that cost $300
Kodak went from 60,000 employees To 3000 A book of the fall of the company: "Out of Focus"
sad!
I love change and technology. But there was something about those flash cubes. Getting a new box of them and knew that you had that many pictures you could take. Then sending your roll of film off getting it in the mail 2 wks later And you get the surprises of man did I take a crummy picture!
Ah yes, the "what the hell was that photo of?", "who photoed their thumb?" "Argh, this would be a lovely photo except glare 😢"
True Nostalgic Americana is that feeling when you realize you didn't load the film correctly, so you have zero photos of your cousin's wedding, but it's fine because they get divorced less than a year later.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That sound they made when they went off -- crackling ignition.
"eat a mat" but who was Mat
What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs at your doorstep..?
You had to be there whelp
I looked at that and thought it said "99¢" Rum. My brain was all, "damn their Fotomat sold Rum?" 🤣
So it wasn’t as painful when you looked through the prints and only found 1 satisfactory shot out of 20.🤣
Oh it was…. The problem is even with digital I still have to take about 100 shots before I get one that I would let anyone see
But…where’s the rum gone…?🥺
I have no association or affiliation with this YouTuber but he regularly makes me laugh & his dramatization of Kodak's digital camera saga in particular youtube.com/shorts/InkJ8...
🤣🤣
Growing up in Rochester, NY, Kodak and Xerox were THE shining jewels and if you were lucky enough to land a job at either you were set for (a good middle-class) life. Sad to have witnessed their downfall in real time.
My dad bought a Polaroid instant camera back when they first came out. $300. I actually still have a couple photos back from 1974 that tucked away in a scrapbook are still in decent shape
I had one of those!
Need any?😃
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That is some nasty looking "mac 'n cheese"
These people have led *very* charmed lives.
It speaks to how privileged and entitled these people are that they have the spare time and energy to dedicate to being offended by this stupid shit.
It's kind of remarkable how they were able to brand something this mundane as "woke."
Cracker barrel's version of "dumplings" would offend all of their ancestors. Cracker barrel is no ones heritage. It's just a junk shop and a restaurant that sucks...
oh be nice, they've got nothing else. to claim actual white American cultural heritage they'd need to have engaged with any of it, and that means icky things like reading and thinking with your brain and stuff.
Not even the restaurant, just the old man in the logo!
They did remodel the restaurant, it looks like shit. Like every modern bar house style house. But again if that’s your culture… [cringe]
I also remember some furor over plant-based sausage…
Yeah, how dare restaurants give options to people who can't or don't want to eat something.
which the funny thing is bland rebranding is ...very much white culture and has been since like. house flipper shows started
ok i was joking that this would be a thing yesterday but holy shit i did not expect to see it to quite this degree immediately
So is Starbuck "the conservative activist" a Melville scholar? If so, then his rant holds more sway.
When I think about what America really stands for all I can imagine is the cracker barrel gift shop🫡
In the UK pubs started serving cheese, bread and pickle as “ploughman’s lunch”. It had in fact been invented by a marketeer in the 1970s to boost pub revenues at lunchtimes with a ‘meal’ that didn’t require a kitchen or any actual cooking. Manufactured nostalgia for a past yet to actually happen.
That goofball is pissed because they took the Cracker and the barrel out of the logo.
Manufacturing white outrage is a cottage industry.
But Starbuck wasn't American. He never even reached Earth, he got stuck on a planet "Enemy Mine" style with a lone Cylon warrior!
did the evil governor from 'o brother where art thou' write that?
So the thing is, this was reported after the change up, people reported new hires were bullying the white workers there trying to make them quit
It’s a fucking logo for God’s sake. As long as they have their wildly delicious hash brown casserole it’s all good.
It’s also a redesign of the interior. Now instead of “cluttered hoarder Grandma’s house” vibe, it’s “rural newly built Burger King” vibe.
Oh no. I love all that crap.
Yeah, that’s actually one of the things I liked about CB, aside from the fact that it has a menu similar to most decent non-chain family style restaurants. Gives you something to look at aside from your phone while waiting for the meal.
Feel sorry for these guys, that's as good as it got for them
Dennys is a hill that I really want to die on...
A very small select group of people have nostalgia for cracker barrel Damn shame a small minority of peoples heritage is getting attacked right....? They should really be standing up for other small minorities being attacked to set an example RIGHT?
They are so fucking weird about everything. WHY CAN'T IT BE 1982 FOREVER
I have German, Irish, Russian heritage and I have NEVER felt white enough to consider Cracker Barrel my heritage.
If cracker barrel is your heritage? You might be a cracker...
Cultural heritage? Hell, *I'M* older than Cracker Barrel. Want Southern Culture? Go to Waffle House.
Have you heard. WH is changing their lattice structure to triangles so as to differentiate themselves from the Dutch and Belgian inventors of waffles. And of course French speakers have no word for entrepreneurs.
Isn't "entrepreneur" a word Trump made up? I think that's what I heard. Him got all the best words.
Entrepreneur is French. George Bush Jnr CLAIMED in a public presser when being disparaging of the French that the French had no word for it.
I know. I was making fun of the fact that Trump recently made up the word "equalize" which definitely has not been in use since 1599.
Us antipodean folk woul write equalise
Would that be where beer does flow and men chunder?
And where women give strange men Vegemite sandwiches.😄😄
Ah I missed that reference. Thanks
"constantly being stomped on" So much projection
Between this and the sudden obsession with St George Cross/Union Jack flags being flown around in England I'm starting to suspect white people might be having an identity crisis.
I'm pretty sure white Americans, like the English, just steal whatever identity they find from darker-skinned and/or less-privileged people.
Elvis was, correctly, accused of singing "colored music" when he first hit the charts. Now white supremacists pretend Elvis music is "white culture."
Correctly? He stole nothing. Covering songs isn't stealing. Elvis is on video and audio giving credit to the original sources. Every black artist whose works he recorded was paid for the privilege and their names appear on his record labels. But never let facts get in the way of a good story, eh?
they're realizing they didn't have one to begin with. personally I'm running with it, I'm trying to build something worth having from first principals
And the saddest part is, they have one. They just reject it because its shared with people they hate. My family has always kept parts our German and Irish heritage and traditions. These idiots seem to think that "white" is something more than not having dark skin, and that it's somehow superior.
I wish every British person of colour would don a t shirt emblazoned with the Union Jack, and wear it 24/7. Imagine how much it would piss off the racist idiots. I’d love it so much!
This is a serious problem. It is a serious problem that they have nothing better to be concerned about than Cracker Barrel changing their logo. This is very troubling.
Having just spent time in a part of Italy where not buildings were younger than 500 years old, the vines centuries old and the food just as timeless, this is like saying that poptarts are American haute cuisine
Compared to that, they might as well be
Nothing more perfectly encapsulates the argument that white Americans have no culture than this.
Wait until they find out the Waffle House has only been around since 1955. 😂
It *is* called Cracker Barrel
Someone who's never been once asked me to describe cracker barrel food. Imagine food they would serve in a nursing home, take all spices out of everything, and somehow make it blander than that.
I mean, for God's sake, how do you make country fried anything bland?
😂😂😂
The irony of him choosing to name himself 'Starbuck'
I mean, it does say "Cracker" right in the name. It's THEIRS, damn it.
Are they wrong, though? Are mediocre bland food, tacky decor and uncomfortable seating not cornerstones of white culture?
Oh no, without a picture of a cracker leaning on a barrel in the logo, their customers will have to be able to read to find the place.
Time to ban woke graphic designers 🙄
I have made it my life's mission to give myself to Christ at every single Cracker Barrel parking lot in the USA. These precious memories are being stolen from me by woke corporate owners who want to ram their values down my throat over and over again.
Please put the racism back into the mashed potatoes and meatloaf the way Jesus intended it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
White people have no culture, giving it up is a mandatory part of being accepted into Whiteness
Getting screwed over by private equity *is* American culture and heritage
Yes, and also, Cracker Barrel has only existed for 56 years. I don't think it actually qualifies as 'nostalgic Americana' if it's not even as old as The Brady Bunch.
i mean, white "culture" is literally all mediocrity
Starbucks? the coffee place that commercializes and bastardizes italian coffees? Oh fuck off.
im pretty sure starbuck is the last name of the guy who said the quote, but i saw someone else say he's also cuban so lol
Are they named after the character in Moby Dick or the shit coffee chain?
I would be surprised if this person has ever heard of Herman Melville.
Its so pathetic lol
You know, I am a white people, & strangely I am not obsessed with being a white people. If you've seen my posts you probably know I'm more obsessed with being a half Latvian people. ♥️Mom🙏. I'm also a bit of a German people, & apparently a bunch of other European peoples on the other side. I really
wish other white people would give more of a shit about their people's ancestry instead of default to the easily translated to the racist "I'm a white people."🙄 There's not a fucking country called Whitelandia, assholes.
Thank you. So true. Below mediocre I would say.
Jesus calm down, Waffle House is still there so Southern Culture is safe.
None of these fragile fucks would last two minutes in a Waffle House
But where did this appear?
I googled it: www.foxbusiness.com/media/cracke...
My flavorless steamed vegetable and wet meat meal. The pillar without which this country cannot stand.
We need to save these people from themselves
I'd rather let them drown in the pool of shit they've forced us all into.
I want to be paternalistic to them because they'll hate it
I like the way you think.
Naaaaaah. Let them continue to wallow in their self-inflicted misery.
Must we?
Americans love their slop
And when you claim the image of a "Cracker" as part of your culture and heritage . . .
I wouldn’t go so far as to call it, “My Culture”, but the new look is a distinct downgrade. The new inside decorations look like someone gave up making an IHop halfway through
I mean, keep attacking like idiots? Lower that stock price so that I buy and then make coin when the financials are exactly the same and shareholders realize that money is good.
First they came for Cracker Barrel and I said nothing. Then they came for Applebees and I said nothing. Then they came for Chili’s and I was forced to choose from about 10 other exactly similar casual dining restaurants.
As long as they keep making the cheese all is well
Who does this goofball think is doing him wrong? Does he really think some deep state leftists went creeping around during the night changing the signs?
Cracker Barrel is culture? They aren’t closing. They changed their logo. These freaks can still eat their mediocre breakfast.
Starbuck is really his last name??? Ooooffff (I’ve never been to a Cracker Barrel, but the corporate take over and genericification of brands with pay-to-play algorithms pushing out the independent middle market of business is the deeper conversation)
Where is the uproar for these changes? I bet Don Jr nor Daddy Trump have never ever stepped foot in a Cracker Barrel. Stop with the fake outrage.
To be fair, a mediocre breakfast restaurant IS the most cultural heritage the average american has.
Assuming that’s Robby Starbuck, his “culture” is Cuban-American—he just adopted white supremacy because it made him popular with the Nazis.
Being white is so embarrassing
I hate being associated with these fucking mutants.
I dont either but even the not horrid stuff is embarrassing.
In fairness if white people gotta be mad about something it being called "cracker barrel" is about as literal as it can get
The jokes write themselves.
“I’m not mad - I’m just disappointed. (and a little chilly.)” —— Crakka T Barrel
'Saltine American" 😁Thank you for your attention to this matter😂
I mean, they left Cracker in the name; what got stripped from you weirdos?
Like I think changing the logo was dumb but I'm not going to throw a tantrum about it
It's utterly exhausting modernizing a logo is not to exclude people omg
Is this actually Dirk Benedict or is that just some guy's screen name?
As if, Cracker Barrel is 'fine dining' for the conservative base. The actual culture and heritage eats at Golden Corral's all you can eat buffet. Cheesecake Factory is where you take someone you're _really_ trying to impress on a date and hoping to make it beyond over the pants hands stuff.
I picture any gathering of right-wing conservative activists to be like being in a room full of the most distempered screeching colicky toddlers on the planet. These people cannot be happy about any goddamn thing.
You aren't far off. One could make a similar description of Libertarians as they are cut from the same white hood.
first they came for the ponderosas, and I did not speak out…
Hurtful but we did it to ourself.
Spot fucking on!
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho has spoken!
"Heritage". It's only 55 years old.
in all fairness, they also serve a mediocre lunch and dinner, twice-fried mystery meats covered in beige gravy-slop.
We get it Starbuck, you hate change. We all do too, but we’re not all publicly embarrassing ourselves over by bitching about it. For so many fragile people, it’s easier to complain about dumb shit like this, then actually getting upset over REAL problems we’re currently experiencing.
Trying to imagine living a life so removed from actual struggle that a corporation changing its logo would rank on my to-give-a-shit-about list.
Not my kind of white.
Mediocre is generous
Conservatives, by definition, are averse to change and hold on to traditional values. So, this explains why they are resistant to Cracker Barrel changing their logo. What it doesn’t explain is why they are so fucking whiny about it.
Chuckle Chuckle chortle
To be fair, what is more American than mediocre restaurants and chain stores?
They removed the Cracker from the barrel.
Overall, the restaurant in question is VERY bad to me. The food is trash in comparison to equivalent items at most buffet restaurant chains, and the vintage aesthetic of the place caters to a dead generation and is alien to contemporary customers. This restaurant has NO place in modern America.
Its a restaurant for gosh sakes. Didn’t you have a grandma who cooked? That’s where culture comes from. Cracker Barrel is just a manufactured version of that.
I need to know what specifically has been taken. When was the last time someone stood around a barrel eating plain ass crackers? Did they even change their ugly ass decor? I bet not. I bet the Cracker Barrel experience is literally the exact same
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Well hey y'all can have Cracker Barrel and Arby's and Chick-fil-A and hamburgers and hot dogs
As the Marlboro man slips out the back.
When you get your heritage and culture from a second rate restaurant logo you have hit bottom.
All but two people I know voted for Harris and most of them, all white, enjoy Cracker Barrel as is. It may not be their favorite, but they like it. And it's not "a breakfast restaurant" so you don't seem to be familiar with it anyway. Stop making assumptions.
Next the snowflake "right" will be pissed when Denny's rebrands to Den and IHOP to I.
Funny never knew cracker barrel was a culture icon to anybody! Just because they have cracker in the name? Wow!
Dat bish, like me, is Cuban American, Cracker Barrel isn't part of our culture, FFS. Rampant racism, however, definitely is. 🇨🇺🇺🇸
Let's be honest, it's not even mediocre
I’m so white I get a sunburn when I open the refrigerator. I like Cracker Barrel, but I don’t go there often because I don’t live near an exurban highway exit. I couldn’t care less that they changed their sign, but then I don’t claim grievance whenever the Pyongyang News Network tells me to.
They’re mad because there’s some slavery shit in there. It was explained to me that the whips used on slaves were stored in a barrel. If you look at the line around the logo, it looks like a whip. This is all about their racist little dog whistle. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it 🤢
It's okay, but it's never been All That. Certainly shouldn't be a MAGA hill to die on.
Mediocre is an understatement. I went to a Cracker Barrel in 2023 and it was some of the worst food I have had, period. I recall it being better?
the food isn't even that good
The way that it's said by someone called Starbuck seems a little too on the nose
Oh, look, it's some shit from Fox Business, and the person quoted is "conservative activist Robby Starbuck," whom no one has ever heard of. But carry on with the empty-headed rage bait. www.foxbusiness.com/media/cracke...
Grow up, pathetic asshole.
WTF is YOUR problem? Why didn't this person include the source for this bullshit, AND let so many people assume this had something to do with the StarbuckS coffee chain? That, to me, is some pathetic, attention-seeking assholery. Guess that's your thing. I find it manipulative.
I'm talking about the Starbuck guy not you. The whole issue is silly to me.
I'm glad you understand. Apologize for my fit of disgust, we're on the same page.
Wait. 1, what is the source of this nonsense, and 2, who the fuck is "Starbuck"? That's NOT the same as Starbucks. Why does anyone post partial, meaningless, untraceable garbage like this?
Just my guess: the target audience has been conditioned since early childhood by being punished for any critical thought, and rewarded for uncritical obedience; i.e., an audience that is all but guaranteed to take whatever is given to them at face value, even if contradictory, requiring doublethink.
Ha! As if muricans had any culture and heritage worth preserving. 🇨🇦
This is peak American, our chain restaurants are our culture and heritage
What's next, will they take away our chicken nuggies?
Fox news broke my people.
also, as far as I know it didn't get changed for "woke" reasons or whatever; it was just a logo change like corporations do all the time
Its the same as right/far-right claiming that American Eagle proved the left hates beautiful white women. Desperate attempts to spin culture war in their favor.
As Steve Bannon put it - just flood the zone
The only reason they changed it is that their primary customer base was literally dying because the average age is 65. They hop taking Uncle Herschel off the sign will signal younger would-be customers that they can come too and don't need to bring grandpa. I suspect the manu is less deep fried too.
Logo simplification is a trend in large part because of mobile(See the Starbucks' mermaid) and for a highway rest stop it makes even more sense. I don't know what people are arguing about.
Not that I actually care about the logo change, but as an observer the change they made last year (removing the old man and the barrel, keeping the odd shape) should have been sufficient to keep a unique mark to make it easily recognisable from a distance on a rest stop/exit sign.
But I get what you mean, the regular shape will render more quickly and efficiently on a web page or phone. It's a shame that microseconds on a computer have become the guidance for a logo. Hand drawn art is of the past.
Generally, rest stops and gas stations have very simple logos and names to make them easily recognizable and remarkable, far simpler than "Cracker Barrel". I would have redesigned both the logo and the stores(And added gas stations), but, I'm not their CEO.
They are not convenience stores or fast food joints. They are also not rest stops. Never designed as such.
I think that's *precisely* the problem for Cracker Barrel.
It's really impossible to figure out what their particular bitchfit is about in this case. It just feels like they have a perpetual canker sore in their asses and anything is gonna set them off.
Logo change and a whole change up inside the stores. I mean, they were already cookie cutter restaurants, now they're...worse.
Basically - less clutter in the logo and also on the walls. Same theme, same stores selling overpriced kitsch and toys you can find anywhere plus some old school candy.
white Americans In Europe we don't call shops culture. Unless, it is an artisan whose shop have existed for 2 centuries and it is a landmark for the locals.
The thing is, the US hasn't been around long enough to have a real mainstream "traditional" culture that isn't inseparably rotted through with close connections to chattel slavery. So notalgia for sanitized fauxrealities created by for-profit companies gets fixated on instead.
But this example? This is bullshit. This is just people who don't know how to do anything but get angry and scream about being victimized, and who just look for things to claim are why.
Starbucks is America. Sub standard
The “Starbuck” refers to Robby Starbuck, a conservative activist. I thought it was about the sh!tty coffee place too though at first. Either way, you’re not wrong.😂
Cracker Barrel rebranded cause YOU abandoned it and private equity bought it up after it went into liquidation. This is its headstone and its YOUR fault. Ya dumb cracka's
Culture can't be taken away because its collectively owned and can't be privatized. Bratwurst is culture. McRib isn't.
The Caucasity of it all is mind boggling.
It’s a tarted-up dennys
Lord have mercy if Best Foods mayonnaise changes its label.
That and their entrenched aversion to seasonings.
"Starbuck" is the guy that meta recently hired to "make sure our AI platforms are not biased". 🤦🏼♂️
I'm not sure we should trust Starbuck's assessment on this one.
Cracker Barrel is really living up to its name
These people haven't even been inside a cracker barrel recently, they fuckin suck. American culture to whites is skin deep aesthetics tho so it tracks
Or inside of a literal barrel.
Deplorable Barrel. Shoulda changed the name.
wtf is cracker barrel
A restaurant
Don't they know how to say they just don't like it
Any cheap diner I ate in during the 1980’s had better food. Cracker Barrel is the white trash version of culture.
Hold on a second. Isn't Kentucky Fried Chicken our culture and heritage?? I mean a plantation owner up on the sign says it all doesn't it? I thought Cracker Barrel was where the kkk took their break after a long night of sweating under those sheets and pointy hats
I’ve seen people upset that what they think is a whip was removed. I saw always thought it was a lasso surrounding the logo. They have to be sick to want a whip in their restaurant logo. Things change all the time. Get over yourselves.
Its some real small dick energy with these people
Conservatives when literally anything happens that they didn't demand or initiate:
All because they took pawpaw off the logo. FFS people, figure out your priorities.
Wait, is this a real thing on their menu? I’ve eaten cardboard and packing peanuts that had more flavour than that would
yep, real, taken from the online menu doesn’t look like they updated it too much in the last few decades not all of it looks bad, but some dishes look dreadful, like the catfish with canned veggies
At least the broccoli is a nice colour. Those beans look like they were abused and buried in a shallow grave then exhumed for plating
The one that makes me gag *looking* is the dumplings!! I mean… I am embarrassed for them because those are not dumplings. Blech.
Actually, for those not familiar with your American “heritage” cooking, which ones are the dumplings? I don’t see anything I’d associate with dumplings.
wouldn’t feed that to my dog
You shouldn’t feed any table food to your dog. Good call.
Mmmm. Hungry Man frozen dinner. Just like Mom used to make.
Wait, your frozen dinner looked like it was made of food? I need to have words to mum about what she was feeding us
No, just the picture on the box looked like food. The photo above looks about like the hungryman box picture. I've been to Crackerbarrel. The contents inside the box aren't much better than a tv dinner in my experience. But mileage may vary.
Please sir, what is the white mass in the bowl?
Chicken and dumplings (i think)
🤮🤢
You seem to be right but I don’t see how??? Why are they square and flat??
I have no idea why they’re shaped like that 😅
Dumplings should be thick enough that the outside gets saucy but the inside stays dry and delicious! I can’t even conceive of what these feel like. They’re almost like…crackers.
hand-made chicken and dumplings also, a crime against humanity
Omg they are dumplings grossssss
Asking the hard questions.
They will one day sing songs called “Remember the Cheesecake Factory” and “Battle of the bowling alley”
Some mf named Starbuck making that statement is wild!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣
It's such an amazing self-own compounded by the fact that they don't realize it.
I just looked it up. The "nostalgic" culture of Cracker Barrel began around the time of the Civil Wa--ah mean, the War Of Northern Aggression! Okay, I'm lying. It was 1969. Sesame Street debuted in 1969 (and Trump took away their funding). The Archies were Number One. Any culture war in a a storm.
Don't blame us. I don't think anyone was campaigning for a logo change.
I think the term "conservative activist" is so hilarious 😂😂 like they're just a whiny snowflake crying that other people exist, that's not activism it's literally bigotry 🤣🤣
Black & brown folk have done nearly all agricultural work in the US, including as slaves & prisoner slaves, but they still demand that anything "country" is "white culture". It's the Hollywood cowboy fantasy of white supremacy.
yeah, I was an actual cowboy when I was younger and it's almost entirely Latinos. Which makes sense because the original cowboys were all Mexicans. If you're east of the Rockies and not in Texas, you don't have real cowboys.
Do you think it’s tied to how people may have learned U.S. history at some point? It is a strange affection.
It's Hollywoodized versions of the Old West, the deep racism of the country music industry, but mainly it appeals to rural & western suburban communities where whites are landowners, run the counties & like the patriarchal white supremacy narrative that lets them cosplay as tough & special.
I think it is also tied to television and film culture. I have a deep appreciation for mid-20th Century Italian and Spanish film making while thinking 1960s-70s American cowboy Westerns are mostly formulaic trash. Boomers believed cowboys and injuns fighting on the teevee 1950s-60s as real life.
Nope had a lot to say, or rather, show about this.
You as an individual may be smart, politically informed and outspoken about deep values but Boomers as a generation gave us Trump and they were in fact brainwashed by cowboy junk as little kids, and greedy idiot neoconservatives in the Reagan era.
I was actually referring to movie Nope. A lot of Hollywood cowboy cliches destroyed
Oh hahaha! I'm sorry. My bad.
The erasure of Mexican culture is absolutely unhinged in Western/ranch/cowboy lore. A lot of what Nazi types think is theirs, too, came from Mediterranean countries like Spain and Italy - 100 y.o. Meds were considered brown by the Western European whites who were here in 1700.
Dude the Nazis were obsessed with the American West and frontiers and shit. They even adopted the ideas of “manifest destiny” and “reservations” for unwanted individuals while planning their invasion of the Soviet Union
You bring up such an excellent point, thank you! I also know about Spaghetti Westerns in Italy which was still reeling from earlier fascism. When I say I love Italian films, that isn't what I mean.
Actually, the majority of the Italian Western directors were openly left wing, and in about 95% of these films the bad guys turn out to be very white people of power and authority.
Another thing is that while I watch more serious and socially aware films called poliziotteschis, I don't watch all of them or exclusively. Film is usually an escape for me so I lean towards non-serious experimental art house, giallo and horror. I don't pretend to be a film scholar.
That's why I do not engage with Spaghetti Westerns any more than US Westerns, not sure what your point is. Fascism hit Italy in the 20s-40s, in the 60s it still polluted the culture on some level and Cosa Nostra in South Italy led to much more sophisticated films about social order.
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Why do people buy into this nonsense? These people are trying to enrage you so you will click on their social media posts, and they can make easy money. It’s just stupid.
Heritage?! It was founded in 1969!
Oh god! This is worse than they offered a vegans sausage option. What will we do?
Hey, uh, quick question for the original guy who is mad: Who is “they”?
Imagining a lily white good old boy past that never really existed
Starbuck talking about 'culture'? Starbuck as in the chain that is younger than me? :D
No. That's Starbucks. Two S's. "Starbuck" is Robby Starbuck, a "conservative activist" nobody ever heard of. Evidently the person who posted this crap (that she neglected to source from Fox Business) didn't think that additional info was important.
Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification.
bSG? That Starbuck??? Nooooooo 😆
it's about them not being openly bigoted against us queers no more
Cracker Barrel is nice idk they put antique rural shit on the wall and sell toys from the 50s like yeah its a chain store but it has an actual identity is very personal to a lot of people
Its identity is literally "lets make cheap knockoffs of actual antiques and sell nostalgia for the 50s to people who werent even alive in the 50s" Its entire identity is literally capitalism weaponizing false nostalgia for a world that never existed
Fair enough and true but will you tell me what you like because you can deconstruct anything enjoyable to its most base parts until it seems dumb as shit
I think the mediocrity that every 80s and 90s pop restaurant has descended into is bland as hell, but this Cracker Barrel story is so stupid. Snowflakes have to make everything about being woke. They’re trying to save money by decorating cheap because their stock price has been dropping for 5 years.
Companies: "As a company who's sole purpose is to make money, I am making a change to make more money" Conservatives: "I can't believe the left is persecuting the only important minority. The conservatives"
Conservatives WHAT ARE YOU CONSERVING?!!!! They aren’t ready for that question yet.
Employee compensation, I think...
If that were true there’d be hire wages but alas the ceo controls that department
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Cracker Barrel is still there. They are still serving the same food. They still have the rocking chairs out front. Never mind the absurd claim that it represents their culture and heritage, I'm struggling with the absurd claim that his has been taken from them.
They no longer have a white guy representing the he “cracker” next to the barrel. That’s the culture.
Same people who think a battle flag from an uprising that lasted five years is "culture" and "heritage."
The quiet part is that their entire "culture and heritage" is that they hate black folks, and wish they could still own people like property. That part is never-ending.
Milli Vanilli lasted longer than the Confederacy. I love that comparison.
Now this would be a stupid thing if it was the usual kind of conservative backlash like if Cracker Barrel put up rainbows in June or made the guy on the logo black or had a trans influencer put over their Beans N' Greens on 420. But a small minute logo change depicting nobody?
I mean, I kinda get this one, but only because it's boring, not any other reason. My favorite restaurant to go once was music themed, with huge half records on the booths, now they're all the same looking.
Their culture is somebody else’s shitty restaurant’s logo?
They see the restaurant logo as clear message of “whites only” and as s result they are mad
This What goes in a barrel of monkeys? Monkeys. What goes in a--
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Starbuck?
This guy is only 36 years old. Cracker Barrel is the only connection he has to "Americana."
In America, consumerism is culture.
European whites also laugh at what US whites consider culture and heritage 💀
LOL wipeepos
So that’s what flash bang would look like it you made into words to read
Counter point: American culture is chintzy franchise restaurants copy pasted on every highway exit.
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This whole thing is so weird.
Trump voters are weird. They thought they could stop culture and business realities with their votes.
It’s not weird when you realize people are angry about this because they can’t claim victory or superiority about anything ACTUALLY in the news. So they created something new to be upset about.