cracker barrel - classic or dud?

classic

classic - def one of the top casual dining restaurants for enjoyment on the road - i love imagining the countryside w/in a 50 mile radius completely bereft of all rusty olde signs

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cracker+barrel+discrimination

google.co.uk? you fucking turncoat!

that's where i live!!

you can call me a turncoat just don't call me a tory

I didn't even know they were a restaurant until my friend got a job there! I thought they were like a more old-timey Hickory Farms store.

classic for totally great/horrible food that i want all winter long.

they generally have a 'gift shop' of sorts, i mustve bought like five raccoon skin caps there over the years. i haven't eaten at one of these since i was a kid, from what i can recall i remember liking po' folks food more. fucked up history as tracer notes.

I will forever associate CB with the unadvertised ham they put in my side of beans. That was just local ignorance on my part. Of course it's gonna have meat in it somewhere. That was off the I-85 in NC somewhere. I found the store section a bit creepy.

xp: my wife bought an owl purse there. and incredibly sweet candy.

also classic for some of the people who eat there - dude with weird portable iron lung breathing for him. guy on cellphone with his wife repeatedly telling her to "call the police" between bites. really old people who "can't eat anything" on the menu. this is in new jersey, btw.

In May 2007 Cracker Barrel temporarily removed hamburgers from its menu at most locations after a patron ate a metal fragment resembling part of a razor blade in her hamburger at a restaurant in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

This course of action makes no sense unless the razor blade was actually part of the recipe at one point.

They don't call it Cracker Barrel for nuthin'!

Yeah. A Yankee writes: is that where you get your colloquial name for your white trash?

if you want souvenir spoons and coonskin caps i'm a much bigger fan of STUCKEY'S

DUD

Stuckey's gift shop was pretty unbeatable, but I don't recall the food being anything to get excited about. They seem to have thinned out considerably, too. I can think of several abandoned, teal-roofed eyesores at lonely exits around the I 55/ I 20 nexus.

o yeah, for the record DUD

https://i.imgur.com/VhAY9Tx.jpg

can we poll these

i can practically smell that JPG

i liked the answer to question 21

How often do you get a raise at Cracker Barrel?

You get a raise every time you PAR Up. This means you are employed for the required time, complete computer courses and get a passing score on your performance evaluation. Not very often.

We purchased a rocking chair from Cracker Barrel for over $200 in June of 2021. In about fifteen months the bottom rails started to rot and fail. the right one has completely collapsed. The paint in the seat is also deteriorating. This chair has been on a porch with almost no rain or sun in Miami which means no cold weather. I called the manufacturer and the warranty is only for twelve months and they will sell me two new rails for $35. I have sent three emails to Cracker Barrel, but they have not returned my emails.

Do not buy these chairs. Also, Cracker Barrel does not respond to emails.

were perhaps these edible chairs

These Yelp reviews are poems, they've made my afternoon.

this seems like the perennial restaurant that you "only eat it when on vacation, and are still less than halfway to your destination"

all possible questions are addressed in the faq

What percentage of Cracker Barrel guests are travelers?

And that point is especially important for Cracker Barrel, which because of its roadside locations, gets a higher percentage of travelers than many competitors. “We source about 30 to 35 percent of our guests from traveling,” Ciavarra said, explaining on of the brand’s chief marketing pushes: billboards.

haha!

Those chairs sound downhome to me!

I do wonder now what the life expectancy is of those rocking chairs out front of every Cracker Barrel.

i ate there for mother's day. the parking lot was unbelievably full at 11am, and due to its convenient location next to a major highway, there was really nowhere else to park or anything else whatsoever in the surrounding area, so me and 5 or 6 other cars found temporary parking spaces by blocking in other people and waited for morning cracker barrelers to finish their breakfast and return to their cars and open up new spaces for us

What IS the correct temperature for hot box?

this seems like the perennial restaurant that you "only eat it when on vacation, and are still less than halfway to your destination"

― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal

The closest one to me in Pembroke Pines is literally where we get on I-85 to start a vacation (I haven't been to any CB since the Dubya years and someone might've given me a sedative).

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cracker barrel trivia time: what are the objects that are present in every cracker barrel, and where are the objects located?

Then, Is the stuff on the walls at Cracker Barrel real?

Décor Warehouse Fast Facts

All items are originals – there are no reproductions. Every Cracker Barrel has an ox yoke and a horseshoe hanging over the front door, a traffic light over the restrooms, and a barrel with a checker board in front of the fireplace.

i truly don't understand the hide tag

wait, the barrel isn't the restroom?

If you're traveling CB is consistently good. The country store has something for everyone, but if you're not careful you will have less room in your car . We stop in here when we don't know the area and always get a good meal, and maybe some snacks for the road. They now serve alcohol which is inconsistent with driving so we haven't tried any. Stop in and get a good meal in a clean friendly atmosphere.

lol neanderthal

Digging Alfred’s new Marilyn Haggerty style

Weird, it was just announced in the last few days that we're getting a Cracker Barrel in Annapolis. The comment section was full of people who were probably way too excited about it, as well as at least one person who took the opportunity to talk about how much they hated Waffle House.

I've only eaten there once, as a child on a road trip with my parents. I don't remember much about it. We were more Big Boy people.

I know that someday my doctor will tell me I can no longer consume country gravy, but until that day comes, I'll always have a hardened spot in my heart for their chicken fried chicken.

I like country gravy in all forms.

I love CB, mainly their sunrise sampler breakfast, lil but of everything. Gritsss

had a weird chicken fried chicken with my mom while looking at the menu yesterday. as a kid, "chicky fried chicky" was something that my whole family would say all the time, like an inside family joke. apparently i said "chicky fried chicky" when i was little and they all thought it was funny and repeated it for years afterward. BUT - until yesterday, my mom didn't realize that "chicken fried chicken" was a cracker barrel menu item, so she hypothesized that maybe when i said "chicky fried chicky" as a kid i was actually just reading the menu item and more or less got it right

I understand chicken fried steak as a concept but isn’t chicken fried chicken just fried chicken?

according to Paula Deen magazine " Chicken-fried uses eggs in the breading process for the meat, and then a milk gravy is made with the pan drippings."

there are other things the magazine said but they were all racist

i was looking that up yesterday. i guess "chicken fried" became a term referring to the cooking of any meat which is tenderized, flattened, breaded and deep fried. "chicken fried steak" became a thing. then, they applied the same process to chicken instead of steak, and "chicken fried chicken" became a menu item

xp

Isn’t it basically schnitzel? Or milanesa?

I like country gravy in all forms.

― the manwich horror (Neanderthal),

intro to a horror film

It wasn't until I went to Australia ten years ago that I realized, Hey! Where did our Mars Bars go? I didn't even notice them missing.

Somehow this came up at work and one of the designers looked at me like I was silly. "They're at Cracker Barrel, in the gift shop!"

(Naw, I thought they were on the menu, thanks.)

BUT Cracker Barrel sells these Mars Bars, based upon the original recipe.

https://i.imgur.com/pIbtSQw.jpg

Which look nothing like the Mars Bars I remember.

(Which, truth be told, doesn't matter anyway since I never cared for Mars Bars in the first place.)