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Police hires are going to get a lot worse once the ICE money kicks in. Every PD in America is going to get headhunted and replenish the ranks with ICE rejects.
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Police hires are going to get a lot worse once the ICE money kicks in. Every PD in America is going to get headhunted and replenish the ranks with ICE rejects.
I don’t care about the politics here but rebranding a company whose identity is entirely built on mid-century rural/southern nostalgia is certainly a choice. I don’t think it’s going to go well for them. Also I hate the Joanna Gaines minimal farm house look they seem to be going for, which has been on its way out for a while.
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Agreed. I’m with you, I don’t really understand what they are going for. Seems totally counterintuitive to me and unlikely to be a net gain for them in the long run. But it is going to be absolutely, positively hysterical watching the right wing griftosphere turning Cracker Barrel into the next great culture war battlefield when something like 99.996% of people on “#TheLeft” are going to have exactly 0 idea what the fuck any of them are talking about….again.
I’m sure Nate Morris regards that old Cracker Barrel logo as just behind statues of JEB Stuart, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Nathan Bedford Forrest in the pantheon of Confederate heroes.
Honestly as long as I can still play the peg game I’m probably good for 4-5 trips there per year. My wife loves it- we ate there the day we got married before getting on the flight to our honeymoon lol. And it looks like the core menu is still there, you can still get an Uncle Herschel’s or Old Timer’s.
But now you can also get a hasbrown casserole shepherd’s pie which sounds pretty dang good.
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But now you can also get a hasbrown casserole shepherd’s pie which sounds pretty dang good.
Cracker Barrel’s controversial rebrand won’t be stopped — here’s how the menus are changing
Cracker Barrel is barreling along with its modern makeover.
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People just want to go back to the good old days when Cracker Barrel wouldn't let black people eat there. I mean that liberal DOJ under <checks notes> George W Bush, really started the downfall of the great restaurant that it was,
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Cracker Barrel Race Discrimination Class Action
David Sanford was lead counsel in a race discrimination class action suit against Cracker Barrel restaurants. The case concerned discrimination in pay and promotion, and also involved discrimination against African-American customers. The United States Department of Justice intervened in the...
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This fool is running for Mitch McConnell's Senate seat!!!!!!
One of his campaign issues is to stop ALL immigration until ALL undocumented immigrants are deported.
It’s very risky to alienate your core constituency/client base-old white southerners. Not sure of the motivation here. It certainly won’t boost sales.
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Honestly as long as I can still play the peg game I’m probably good for 4-5 trips there per year. My wife loves it- we ate there the day we got married before getting on the flight to our honeymoon lol. And it looks like the core menu is still there, you can still get an Uncle Herschel’s or Old Timer’s.
But now you can also get a hasbrown casserole shepherd’s pie which sounds pretty dang good.
Cracker Barrel’s controversial rebrand won’t be stopped — here’s how the menus are changing
Cracker Barrel is barreling along with its modern makeover.
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Are they talking about the brown guy on the left?
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My guess is that their brand was appealing to a Johnny Cash/George Jones demographic that for age/mortality reasons doesn't eat there as much anymore. They probably decided that they needed to update to appeal to the Morgan Wallen/Joanna Gaines demographic.
Not the same demographic, but when I think of the trajectory of Cracker Barrel, I think Western Sizzlin', Shoney's, Chuck E Cheese, and Applebee's. Shoney's is probably the best comp.
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My maternal grandfather, died in the mid-1990’s at about 92 years-old, always called himself a “Florida Cracker.” Which he was. He loved sitting on the porch in a rocking chair. He had a western porch for breakfast and dinner……and a northeastern porch for post-supper relaxing and conversing and story-telling. Grandad loved telling stories.
He liked the Cracker Barrel logo. He would say, “That’s me in the rocking chair…….a Florida Cracker sitting next to a barrel.”
He liked the Cracker Barrel logo. He would say, “That’s me in the rocking chair…….a Florida Cracker sitting next to a barrel.”
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This story - like so many others - makes me think that perhaps our political world might be improved if everyone were somehow "forced" to understand and contemplate a single story involving the current POTUS.
The professionals at the Smithsonian are at the top tier of an incredibly competitive profession.
Meanwhile, there is a huge amount of information to absorb and communicate to the public about the history of slavery, as studied in a host of different disciplines.
It seems as if Trump and his people are upset when the museum folks (and the history departments etc.) present the history of slavery as unpleasant. Or, perhaps they are just upset when they feel that too much attention is spent on blacks in exhibits and/or classrooms.
This conversation invites some obvious followup questions:
These people just celebrate their ignorance.
But what percentage of voters really share these opinions? No deference to expertise?
The professionals at the Smithsonian are at the top tier of an incredibly competitive profession.
Meanwhile, there is a huge amount of information to absorb and communicate to the public about the history of slavery, as studied in a host of different disciplines.
It seems as if Trump and his people are upset when the museum folks (and the history departments etc.) present the history of slavery as unpleasant. Or, perhaps they are just upset when they feel that too much attention is spent on blacks in exhibits and/or classrooms.
This conversation invites some obvious followup questions:
- Has Donald Trump ever read a book about slavery?
- Have any of his people ever read a book about slavery? Which ones? How many?
- Do MAGA folks hear what Trump says and somehow agree that those museum folks are pushing a "liberal agenda" about slavery? What would that be?
- Have MAGA people studied slavery?
These people just celebrate their ignorance.
But what percentage of voters really share these opinions? No deference to expertise?
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At least 35-40%? That’s of the people who voted in 2024.
5-15% are leftists who “‘Bo-side.” Some leftists ‘Bo-side so hard they vote MAGA.
They're in the pickle barrel.
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