From what I saw no one ever suggested it had to do with race or being woke.
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-- wot -- — 7 months ago(August 29, 2025 04:52 AM)
I think people are just annoyed that it just another example of insane wokeness taking over. "
Oh we cant have a hhwhite guy on our logo, not when other races exist in this world
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They are so afraid of offending that they removed the cracker and the barrel from cracker barrel and many people over the age of 47 were upset. -
CrystalRaindrops — 7 months ago(August 29, 2025 04:57 AM)
Maybe they were receiving complaints, like, "If there's a barrel in the picture and a white man in the picture and your name is Cracker Barrel, that means you're calling the guy a cracker! That's racist, you SOBs!"
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JustinCase — 7 months ago(August 29, 2025 07:32 AM)
LOL Crystal!
Too funny!
And it brings up other things.
I find being thought of or called a, "cracker," nowhere offensive as the N-word.
It's tame.
If I really was a cracker, literally, I think I would be a Ritz or a saltine.
How about you?
A Crystal Cracker?
Uh oh.
That seems racist!
Oh no!
We just can't win with woke.
I seem to recall some kind of Cracker Barrel racist incident from a few years ago and I don't think it had to do with the word of, "Cracker."
I'll see if I can dig it up and share it.
How you die does not redeem how you lived. - A black pastor on the life and death of Charlie Kirk -
JustinCase — 7 months ago(August 29, 2025 05:05 PM)
About a decade later, in 2004, Cracker Barrel was sued for a handful of racist practices toward African Americans, including seating them later than customers who arrived after them, putting them into a different section of the restaurant, and workers refusing them service. The establishment was fined $8.7 million in the settlement and was called upon to change the way it operates. However, it was as recently as 2022 that some Cracker Barrel employees were said to again discriminate against customers, allegedly using the term "Canadians" as a code word when referring to African Americans.
Even children have been targeted by the chain. In December of 2024, a group of elementary-level students with disabilities was brought into a Cracker Barrel as a way to further practice social interactions. But that effort was thwarted when they were turned away and forced to get takeout instead. The employees responsible were fired, though the damage was already done. These are sadly a few instances in which Cracker Barrel has received backlash, with the chain also getting into sexual harassment lawsuits and once declining a job applicant because they were deaf.
How you die does not redeem how you lived. - A black pastor on the life and death of Charlie Kirk -
JustinCase — 7 months ago(August 30, 2025 04:52 AM)
Cool.
I doubt it offends too many of us.
I was asking what kind of cracker you would like to be if you could be one.
(Sorry if my question got lost in those thoughts.)
All In The Family is more my bag where George did say the N word once.
TJ was a spin off from AITF.
Have you watched that show and seen the Jeffersons on it?
I loved the way Lionel would play around with Archie's bigotry.
How you die does not redeem how you lived. - A black pastor on the life and death of Charlie Kirk -
JustinCase — 7 months ago(August 30, 2025 08:21 AM)
I've watched AITF a bunch of times on TV and have a few seasons on DVD.
Ooooooooo!
That's thinking outside the box and I like that!
Though I should perhaps wear a cup protector around you.
How you die does not redeem how you lived. - A black pastor on the life and death of Charlie Kirk -
CrystalRaindrops — 7 months ago(August 29, 2025 04:59 AM)
The man is just a generic figure created by Nashville designer Bill Holley, who wrote it on a napkin in 1977. His aim was to “create a feeling of nostalgia with an old-timer wearing overalls,” according to Cracker Barrel.
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JustinCase — 7 months ago(August 29, 2025 09:03 AM)
According to their website, and a couple of other articles I read the man at the cracker barrel for Cracker Barrel: Uncle Herschel was Cracker Barrel Old Country Store’s founder Dan Evins’ real uncle.
You can read a bit more and see a pic here if you like from their website:
https://www.crackerbarrel.com/about/uncle-herschel
How you die does not redeem how you lived. - A black pastor on the life and death of Charlie Kirk