• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    You’re missing context.

    Look at the dead logos.

    Now look up how Cracker Barrel had to be sued in 2004 to stop segregating their dinning room.

    • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      Link to lawsuit

      That is pretty fucked up, never heard about it. It’s the usual suspects, “Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia”. Probably not an unspoken nationwide Cracker Barrel policy, more of a Southern thing, but it’s likely corporate knew it was going on & tolerated it.

      The dead logos & old Southern country styling…WAS…their thing. It was their whole thing, now it’s gone, and they have nothing. Idk personally I don’t see it going well for them. Time will tell.

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      2 days ago

      Right, but the point still stands. The type of person to frequent cracker barrel probably is an ancient racist. The rebrand will end them.

      • Psythik@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        2 days ago

        Not everybody, though. I’m with CoffeeJunkie; I go to Cracker Barrel because I like the food (and because they sell Hydrox cookies in the general store). I had no idea that it’s apparently a hang out for racists. If they’re around then they’re well hidden at my local Cracker Barrel locations.

        • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          2 days ago

          I don’t think it’s like a nazi bar, I just know that the demographic is old white people and I just kinda assume. I haven’t been in ages but their biscuits are FANTASTIC.

          • smikwily@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 day ago

            Both them and Bob Evans offer “take home meals” that we’ve started ordering for the major holidays since my mother, aunt, and grandmother have passed. It is nice to be able to have a “big holiday meal” without all the prep/cleanup. Not exactly “cheap”, but considering the amount of time you save and stuff you’d have to buy, not much of a “splurge” either if you want a nice family meal like that for the holidays.