It’s Not Just the Logo - Cracker Barrel Has Been Chosen as the Latest Boycott Target to Send a Message to Woke Corporations

Corporations often re-brand their logos and redesign their stores. In recent years, a bland minimalism has been in vogue. So why is there such outrage at Cracker Barrel and its CEO for de-cluttering its restaurants and simplifying its logo? The answer is two-fold.

First, this action is the final straw in the hijacking of Cracker Barrel by activist executives who have made it abundantly clear that they despise the company’s image and that they despise its customer base. The old country gentleman has been removed from the logo, along with the words “Country Store.” That matters greatly to the chain’s legacy customers. As I have written about on previous occasions (see below), under the left-wing activists that are in control of the company, Cracker Barrel doesn’t want to serve you comfort food, they want to re-educate you.

Second, Cracker Barrel just drew the unlucky ticket in a lottery where outraged “normies” pick one company to visibly seek retribution as a warning to all woke corporations and executives.

If you’ve been employed at a publicly traded corporation over the past decade, you have almost certainly been through racial “struggle sessions,” been compelled to “celebrate” the sexual habits and religious practices of people who don’t share your values, seen hiring and promotions administered with a focus on race, gender, and sexual behaviors, etc. If you are straight, white, male, Christian, or patriotic, you have likely felt vilified by corporate America.

Consumers who want to fight back against “woke capital” have learned just how powerful they are when they target one egregiously woke company.

After Gillette ran its notorious ad campaign in 2019 accusing its loyal male customer base of being sexual predators, men abandoned the product in massive numbers. The damage was so severe that since that offensive ad, Procter & Gamble has had multiple write offs for losses due to Gillette’s impaired asset value. The amount that Gillette has cost P&G since that disastrous ad now exceeds $9 billion. The debacle has been so bad that Gillette has subsequently stopped publishing information on its share of the U.S. men’s wet shave market in its annual reporting.

Anheuser Busch had the number one selling beer in the United States with Bud Light, but its executives detested the customer demographic that actually consumed Bud Light, so Anheuser famously engaged a cross-dressing “influencer” to become the face of Bud Light. Outraged and energized consumers retaliated with perhaps the most famous consumer boycott of them all. The Bud Light brand lost tremendous market share, which it cannot recover.

After Target made it clear that men are always welcome in the women’s restrooms, and after pushing LGBT merchandise on children, Target sales stumbled and its stock price collapsed. Its hyper-woke destructor of a CEO, Brian Cornell, was finally pushed out just this past week.

Robbie Starbuck has done an amazing job of letting major corporations know that woke won’t be tolerated anymore, and when he shows up at a CEO’s door, the CEOs have started to realize they can either back off the woke agenda, or a crushing boycott is imminent. Tractor Supply has a very conservative customer demographic, and also a very left-wing CEO who was pushing a radical left-wing agenda on its employees. When Robbie showed up, the CEO immediately capitulated and dumped its DEI/ESG nonsense rather than go through what Bud Light had inflicted on itself.

It's now Cracker Barrel’s turn. It has a left-wing CEO, Julie Masino, whose career includes 12 years at Starbucks Coffee before coming to Cracker Barrel, and she clearly wants to remake Cracker Barrel into an operation that the cultural communists at Starbucks would be proud of.

Consumers have amazing power, and tens of millions are very angry about corporate America’s capture by left wing activists. Fed up Americans are seeking retribution, and they also know the power of making an example of a specific company to help educate other woke executives.

I have twice written about Cracker Barrel’s offensive activism. In June 2023 I wrote about a growing disgust with Cracker Barrel’s promotion of the LGBT agenda, stating that “When I want a catfish dinner and some old time candy, I could not possibly care less about the sexual behaviors of the restaurant’s staff or patrons. I’d be grossed out if Cracker Barrel was devoting a month to celebrating heterosexual sex.”

In May of 2024, with Julie Masino plowing full speed ahead with the re-making of Cracker Barrel into a place where Seattle leftists would want to dine, I wrote:

In June of 2023 Cracker Barrel went woke, deciding that it could bring in new customers and investors by sexualizing the front porch with rainbow-striped rocking chairs. As it turned out, that was not a good marketing strategy, and it had the effect of repulsing existing customers who don’t want country cooking to be sexualized, be it gay, straight, or otherwise.

Cracker Barrel had implicitly smeared its existing customers, touting how it is becoming more “welcoming” by slathering rocking chairs with rainbows, and sponsoring pride events. About this I wrote:

I have been to Cracker Barrel with gay relatives. They did not feel unwelcome. Sexualizing the place does not make it any more welcoming. I’m straight, but I don’t need cleavage or tight outfits on waitresses to make me feel welcome. I would be just as disgusted if Cracker Barrel had decided to become a Hee Haw Hooters in order to attract more straight men.

With the recent brouhaha, in addition to the logo change removing any “country” imagery, Ms. Masino is also changing the restaurant’s interior design from the warmth and comfort of “Gramma’s parlor” to cold and austere. Seattle hipsters would love it. Cracker Barrel’s customers hate it.

Cracker Barrel’s Board of Directors have a crisis on their hands. They can fire Masino, apologize for the woke activism, and return to a focus on excellent country cooking (which has also suffered.) If not, the company can expect to go the way of Bud Light and never recover.

*****

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1 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:00 AM (N1tpc)

2 (And yes, I'm referring to the trans monkey at the top of the post.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:00 AM (N1tpc)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 25, 2025 11:00 AM (GYt5+)

4 I told the art thread.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 25, 2025 11:01 AM (ExV1e)

5 Crack Whore Barrel.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 25, 2025 11:02 AM (qXiZz)

6 Kirsche has a term for these rebrandings that make logos bland and almost interchangeable:

Globo Homo - Global Homogenization.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 11:03 AM (pfggt)

7 If you are straight, white, male, Christian, or patriotic, you have likely felt vilified by corporate America.
———-

More than a “feeling”.

Posted by: Boston at August 25, 2025 11:04 AM (wzsAY)

8 The left is far more zealous for their religion than most Christians.

WHEREVER they are, they will use their position to promote their religion. They especially love to weasel into businesses, franchises, and nonprofits opposed to them.

There, they will either turn the enterprise to promoting their religion or burn it to the ground. Either is a win for them.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:04 AM (N1tpc)

9
"WHY IS IT STILL NAMED AFTER OLD WHITE TRAILER TRASH REDNECK HILLBILLY HICK RACISTS LIKE JD VANCE?!?!?!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: Fighting Fire With Gasoline! at August 25, 2025 11:05 AM (EeAvm)

10 I'm not sure what Cracker Barrel is going for other than bankruptcy. I was never going back even before this foolishness, and I doubt it will attract new customers. Maybe it's just a strategy to put the company out of it's misery.

Posted by: fd at August 25, 2025 07:23 AM

Craker Barrel has been woke for a LONG time. This logo change was simply the final stage of the complete dismantling of the former company culture by the DEI management of the company.

Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck

Cracker Barrel has been one of the most loved brands in America for decades... That changed this week with a logo redesign that infuriated the public but... the problem goes MUCH deeper than a logo.

@CrackerBarrel has gone fully woke and now it’s time to expose everything.

Here’s the highlights you need to know:

X: https://bit.ly/41XaOon

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 25, 2025 11:05 AM (P5BPp)

11 Where do all these Leftist CEOs come from?

The documentary series Law ampersand Order showed quite convincingly that CEOs are straight white males who are conservative and murderous.

So where do these Leftists come from?

Posted by: blaster at August 25, 2025 11:06 AM (RoO7G)

12 Cracker Barrel’s Board of Directors have a crisis on their hands. They can fire Masino, apologize for the woke activism, and return to a focus on excellent country cooking (which has also suffered.)

This snippet from your posting highlights an alternative viewpoint: Cracker Barrel was already well into an untenable financial situation and the chain was busted out by hiring a woke CEO to burn it down.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 25, 2025 11:07 AM (/HDaX)

13 The new CB logo is ugly. It barely qualifies as a "logo." Just an ugly font spelling out the name on an ugly yellow-orange background. The background color looks like snot. How much did they spend on this?

Rebrands are popular for some reason. Bentley changed its flying "B" logo from a distinctive wingspan to a ... less distinctive wingspan. Why? Nobody knows.

Lamborghini changed its logo a few years ago from a raging bull to a .. raging bull. Even fans had a hard time telling the difference. If you look very close, the bull now looks more like an icon than an actual bull. The change was supposedly done in part to communicate that the cars themselves were evolving in a new direction (which they were).

Kia changed its logo a few years ago from a recognizable "KIA" roundel to a ... weird-looking modern-art interpretation of "KIA."

Toyota changed it's logo years ago to a ... mess.

Does any of this matter? I highly doubt it. While it certainly makes piles of money for marketing firms, I doubt actual customers care or even notice. People buy exotics in part because they want the logo on the hood of the car. They don't care what the logo looks like.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 11:07 AM (iFTx/)

14 If you are straight, white, male, Christian, or patriotic, you have likely felt vilified by corporate America.

I'm just putting in my time until retirement.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 11:07 AM (L9gr5)

15 Crack Whore Barrel.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 25, 2025 11:02 AM

*perks up*

Posted by: H. Biden at August 25, 2025 11:08 AM (ySpAZ)

16 Related. His grandson needs a stern talking to!

Snoop Dogg Blasts Disney Over His Grandson’s Reaction to “Lightyear” Lesbian Moms Scene: “How She Have a Baby With a Woman?”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)

17 Kia changed its logo a few years ago from a recognizable "KIA" roundel to a ... weird-looking modern-art interpretation of "KIA."

Looks like NiN (nine inch nails)

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 11:08 AM (L9gr5)

18 How long will it take for corporate execs to learn "go woke, go broke"?
They were indoctrinated in government schools, beaten down by peer pressure to conform and given passing grades for adhering to the prevailing dogmas by progressive teachers and professors who reside in ivory towers and consider themselves elite.
At least two generations have endured this and the backlash is just beginning.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at August 25, 2025 11:08 AM (MNCvZ)

19 Identifiable markers, logos, slogans, commercials, jingles, these were all touchstones that united people in a common if banal sort of oneness. Think of "wheres the beef", the "easy" button, grimace.

It sounds stupid to even say but it's true. The bastardization, blandization and wokization of all pop culture is way more about what it is taking away than what it is adding.

Posted by: ... at August 25, 2025 11:08 AM (XVa0w)

20 But seriously - are the Boards of these companies just chock full of Leftists too that they only want Leftist CEOs?

I guess they are all rich so shareholder value is not of interest.

Posted by: blaster at August 25, 2025 11:08 AM (RoO7G)

21 With the recent brouhaha, in addition to the logo change removing any “country” imagery, Ms. Masino is also changing the restaurant’s interior design from the warmth and comfort of “Gramma’s parlor” to cold and austere. Seattle hipsters would love it. Cracker Barrel’s customers hate it.

It mystifies me why anyone thought the redesigned interior was a positive move. I mean, the old look did nothing for me (I've only been in one a couple of times) but the new look is McDonald's with a few boards of organized, but random crap on the wall.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 25, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

22 I quit Cracker Barrel when they stopped serving chicken livers.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 25, 2025 11:09 AM (XvL8K)

23 K-Pop Demon Hunter pulled in $18 million at the box office this weekend.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 11:09 AM (pfggt)

24 Yeah, let that be a lesson to those in business. Never put a leftist woman or pervert in charge of your company.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2025 11:09 AM (0eaVi)

25 Where do all these Leftist CEOs come from?

Ivy League business schools, where they care only about the opinions of other people who attended Ivy League schools.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 25, 2025 11:10 AM (xTIDn)

26 Snoop Dogg Blasts Disney Over His Grandson’s Reaction to “Lightyear” Lesbian Moms Scene: “How She Have a Baby With a Woman?”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Funny how someone suddenly becomes conservative when their offspring is involved.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 11:10 AM (L9gr5)

27 23 K-Pop Demon Hunter pulled in $18 million at the box office this weekend.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 11:09 AM (pfggt)

=======

"NOOOOO!"
-Netflix, distributing K-Pop Demon Hunter and making money the wrong way

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

28 Causing people to conflate deviant sex with food has to be the worst marketing move in history. And that is precisely what they are doing.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 25, 2025 11:10 AM (It4Li)

29 6 Kirsche has a term for these rebrandings that make logos bland and almost interchangeable:

Globo Homo - Global Homogenization.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 11:03 AM (pfggt)

Don't drag that degenerate into a Smart Military Blog.

It's a shame that the last thing Jim "Metokur" O'Shaughnessy will ever be known for was for embracing a degenerate vtuber.

Posted by: XTC at August 25, 2025 11:11 AM (UnA8+)

30 The Phillips 66 gas station logo has more appeal than does the CB logo.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 25, 2025 11:11 AM (2WIwB)

31 I quit Cracker Barrel when they stopped serving chicken livers.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

I quit when their food went yo shit 15+ years ago.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 11:11 AM (L9gr5)

32 They were indoctrinated in government schools, beaten down by peer pressure to conform and given passing grades for adhering to the prevailing dogmas by progressive teachers and professors who reside in ivory towers and consider themselves elite.

I like "consider themselves elite". Another way to put it is soi-disant elite, which means the self-declared elite. I only use soi-disant because I saw it somewhere and took the time to look it up, so I reckon I need some return on my investment of time.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 25, 2025 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

33 They changed the food for the worse according to a lot of critics. That would be my main criticism.

If you want to bring in new customers you have to make the food better.

A lot of chain restaurants are trying to save money by reducing their food costs. That’s just a slow death.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:11 AM (EYmYM)

34 Haven't the immigrants suffered enough?

Petition Supporting Illegal Trucker Accused of Killing 3 Gets 2.2 Million Signatures

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)

35 Cracker Barrel was already well into an untenable financial situation"

This. The only easy choices are to find new customers or reduce costs to the point that the product is not recognizable...
Risking it on building the business is well, risky. The entire MBA structure is built on risk aversion...

Posted by: man at August 25, 2025 11:11 AM (5jsYP)

36 I'm not sure what Cracker Barrel is going for other than bankruptcy.
_____________

The new CEO said the same thing the Bud Lite Marketing VP said. "Our customer base is old and not cool. We need to appeal to a younger and cooler demographic."

Left unspoken is "Because Black Rocke says so._"

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 25, 2025 11:11 AM (RifVr)

37 The thing about both the Budweiser and Cracker Barrel examples is that neither one is actually a boycott. Budweiser lost brand capital. Marketing execs wanted to expand the brand beyond just the frat boys and good ol' boys who were drinking the beer in volume because it was cheap. That's a fine enough goal, but they did it by making their brand look uncool to those key demographics. The frat guys and good ol' boys didn't want to be seen drinking the tranny beer, and there were plenty of cheap alternatives. That's not a boycott, it's just brand destruction.

Same with Cracker Barrel. Affluent White Female Liberals have decided that anything old-timey and southern equates to racism, because slavery is literally the only thing they know about the old south, like a word association game for the uncultured. But without the old-time country aesthetic, what's even the point of Cracker Barrel? You don't need a boycott when there's no reason for customers to even go there.

Posted by: Caiwyn at August 25, 2025 11:12 AM (yHxqC)

38 > If you are straight, white, male, Christian, or patriotic, you have likely felt vilified by corporate America.
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I feel fortunate. Could have been born in some 3rd world mud hut. Instead, I was born here. Jackpot, where even a schlub like me can be free, have a life, own property, amass wealth, and retire with some ease.

Posted by: Don Black at August 25, 2025 11:12 AM (AOsQT)

39 >>It's now Cracker Barrel’s turn. It has a left-wing CEO, Julie Masino, whose career includes 12 years at Starbucks Coffee before coming to Cracker Barrel, and she clearly wants to remake Cracker Barrel into an operation that the cultural communists at Starbucks would be proud of.

Isn't it funny how just a glance at the CEO tells you everything?

She has worked so hard to project a very specific image: All black outfit (like Steves Jobs!), the big black-framed glasses (like NYC fashion icons!), the streamlined beach-blond hair (I'm ageless and classy!) and so on.

She doesn't have to speak when everything about her appearance aggressively says coastal elite, so NOT a Cracker Barrel customer.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2025 11:12 AM (GbwPZ)

40 I am wondering though why Black Eyed Pea went under because their food was consistently good. They were my choice over Cracker Barrel.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:13 AM (EYmYM)

41 And the food is retarded.

Posted by: Kingsman at August 25, 2025 11:13 AM (ehY6c)

42 Ms. Masino is also changing the restaurant’s interior design from the warmth and comfort of “Gramma’s parlor” to cold and austere. Seattle hipsters would love it. Cracker Barrel’s customers hate it.

Ten years from now, how many children will Seattle hipsters have compared to flyover Tennessee? You know, future customers.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 25, 2025 11:13 AM (It4Li)

43 The left is far more zealous for their religion than most Christians.

WHEREVER they are, they will use their position to promote their religion. They especially love to weasel into businesses, franchises, and nonprofits opposed to them.

There, they will either turn the enterprise to promoting their religion or burn it to the ground. Either is a win for them.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:04 AM (N1tpc)

---------------

Well said, FV: for the Nihilist, Heaven == Hell.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: Fighting Fire With Gasoline! at August 25, 2025 11:13 AM (EeAvm)

44 Speaking of the commie terrorist goatfucking homosexual running for NYC mayor, the video of him struggling to bench 135 pounds (yes, 135 pounds) is both hysterical and embarrassing. He didn't even bench that small amount. His "spotter" was clearly doing all the work, if you watch the video.

Bombdaddy is a little limp-wristed twink faggot who in a real America would be a rentboy under a Detroit overpass.

https://tinyurl.com/ycx8bp8h

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 11:13 AM (iFTx/)

45 What happened to LuLu Lemon? Did they overestimate the number of soy boys who wanted to look like fagz?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 11:14 AM (c711F)

46 >>The new CEO said the same thing the Bud Lite Marketing VP said. "Our customer base is old and not cool. We need to appeal to a younger and cooler demographic."

*airquotes* "Fratty"

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2025 11:14 AM (GbwPZ)

47 44 Speaking of the commie terrorist goatfucking homosexual running for NYC mayor, the video of him struggling to bench 135 pounds (yes, 135 pounds) is both hysterical and embarrassing. He didn't even bench that small amount. His "spotter" was clearly doing all the work, if you watch the video.

Bombdaddy is a little limp-wristed twink faggot who in a real America would be a rentboy under a Detroit overpass.

https://tinyurl.com/ycx8bp8h
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 11:13 AM (iFTx/)

=======

*masturbating furiously at the wimpiness*
-AWFL on the pill even though she hasn't had sex in 4 years

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:14 AM (GBKbO)

48 I am wondering though why Black Eyed Pea went under because their food was consistently good. They were my choice over Cracker Barrel.
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Agreed.

Cracker Barrel used to have fried chicken livers on its menu--those were quite tasty.

Posted by: Crusader at August 25, 2025 11:14 AM (TN0g+)

49 She has worked so hard to project a very specific image: All black outfit (like Steves Jobs!), the big black-framed glasses (like NYC fashion icons!), the streamlined beach-blond hair (I'm ageless and classy!) and so on.

She doesn't have to speak when everything about her appearance aggressively says coastal elite, so NOT a Cracker Barrel customer.

She'll try to make amends by drinking a Bud Light while driving a Jag and shaving her legs with a Gillette razor.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 25, 2025 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

50 We've all seen the photo of Big Eyeglasses Karen who led the re-branding effort. She does not look like the type that would share a table with the old guy sitting next to the cracker barrel.

He's icky and smells old, so she got rid of him.

Posted by: Don Black at August 25, 2025 11:15 AM (AOsQT)

51 Both Lulu Roman and Gailard Sartain died in the last 18 months. Lulu's Truck Stop is closed. Nowhere to go for some good country eatin'.

Posted by: Flyswatter At Each Table at August 25, 2025 11:15 AM (G5+As)

52 Ivy League business schools, where they care only about the opinions of other people who attended Ivy League schools.

A couple of prominent Silicon Valley types did an interview asking why some of Silicon Valley was shifting to the right, and they noted that Silicon Valley firms liked to hire Ivy League graduates, and that around 2014(?) or so, all the new Ivy League hires turned out to be little Red Guards.

This happened very quickly, but suddenly the Ivy League hires could care less about the profitability of the business, and cared only about enforcing Woke Norms on the company they worked for, and anyone who bought anything from the company, or came in contact with the company in any way.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 25, 2025 11:15 AM (xTIDn)

53 >I quit Cracker Barrel when they stopped serving chicken livers.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

I quit when their food went yo shit 15+ years ago.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 11:11 AM (L9gr5)

I think this re-branding is really secondary to the fact that Cracker Barrel's food sucks and the company has chased away long-time customers.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 25, 2025 11:15 AM (rJ48h)

54 33 They changed the food for the worse according to a lot of critics. That would be my main criticism.

If you want to bring in new customers you have to make the food better.

A lot of chain restaurants are trying to save money by reducing their food costs. That’s just a slow death.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:11 AM (EYmYM)

True...

Ruining your food when people stop there because of your food is the kiss of death to your corporation.

It was the ultimate traveler's comfort and multi-generation comfort place (it's why they are by hotels and at interstate rest stops). Folks know what interstate rest stops cost - they could have kept the concept and thrived. Even if they adapted it to add a few more healthy and fresh options (which their competitor Bob Evans did) as the times changed - there was still room for the old comfort...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 25, 2025 11:16 AM (tOcjL)

55 I remember back in the day when CB said they wouldn’t hire homosexuals.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 25, 2025 11:16 AM (Vh9CX)

56 What happened to LuLu Lemon? Did they overestimate the number of soy boys who wanted to look like fagz?

When Ronna McDaniel lost her job, their sales plummeted.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 25, 2025 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

57 It's now Cracker Barrel’s turn. It has a left-wing CEO, Julie Masino, whose career includes 12 years at Starbucks Coffee before coming to Cracker Barrel, and she clearly wants to remake Cracker Barrel into an operation that the cultural communists at Starbucks would be proud of.

The former Starbucks COO , Rosalind Brewer went to Walgreens as their CEO and ruined one of the strongest balance sheet companies in the country and made my financial retirement less secure. I should have sold immediately after she became CEO.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:16 AM (EYmYM)

58 Why do you all think that the "left-wing activists" in charge of Cracker Barrel are being "stupid" or "making mistakes"?

Couldn't their plan been to make moves to enrage their trump supporter customers, cause an inevitable boycott, and ultimately bankrupt this company they are embarrassed of and loathe, all while scheming to profit off the disaster they know is coming?

The added bonus, besides profiting from the bankruptcy, is that they put Trump supporters in a position where they had no choice but to help them bring something they enjoyed to an end.

Posted by: xoutforin at August 25, 2025 11:16 AM (iCwT3)

59 Speaking of the commie terrorist goatfucking homosexual running for NYC mayor, the video of him struggling to bench 135 pounds (yes, 135 pounds) is both hysterical and embarrassing.

Hey - he hates Jews, Hindus, Americans, and capitalism, and that's what important.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 25, 2025 11:17 AM (xTIDn)

60 Sumbitch should've minded his own business.

U.S. Man Stabbed in Germany After Trying to Protect Women on Tram from Harassment By Migrants

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 11:17 AM (L/fGl)

61 Metokur seemed to have fun with Kirsche. And she dearly loved having him ion her show.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 11:17 AM (pfggt)

62 Bombdaddy is a little limp-wristed twink faggot who in a real America would be a rentboy under a Detroit overpass.

https://tinyurl.com/ycx8bp8h
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 11:13 AM (iFTx/)

They have those there?

(quickly grabs a flight schedule)

Posted by: Rev. Dr. D French at August 25, 2025 11:17 AM (0eaVi)

63 More from Cracker Bargle:

__________________________

Staff have vented over what they describe as poor management at the highest level of the company by airing their grievances on the employment review site Glass Door.

A crew member in Minnesota posted: 'To the CEO Julie Masino, stop cutting our hours.

'We are making less pay for more work when we are understaffed because you suck at bringing this dead company from its grave.

'Stop lowering your food quality. No it is NOT a good idea to force your cooks to serve bacon that is over a day old. Bacon shouldn't be saved overnight, believe it or not.'

One worker, who claims they are an Associate Manager at a branch in South Carolina, posted: 'New leadership is driving the company down.

'There is now nothing that makes Cracker Barrel any different from every other below-average restaurant chain.'

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 25, 2025 11:17 AM (RifVr)

64 >>A couple of prominent Silicon Valley types did an interview asking why some of Silicon Valley was shifting to the right, and they noted that Silicon Valley firms liked to hire Ivy League graduates, and that around 2014(?) or so, all the new Ivy League hires turned out to be little Red Guards.

Yes - the Ross Douthat interview with Marc Andreesen.
Very illuminating.

Also, Douthat came off as a total tool who refused to let Andreessen's answers sway his preconceived notions of how things were in Silicon Valley.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 25, 2025 11:17 AM (GbwPZ)

65 customers who don’t want country cooking to be sexualized...

*******

Dumlings. 'Nuff said.

Posted by: muldoon at August 25, 2025 11:17 AM (/iMjX)

66 Petition Supporting Illegal Trucker Accused of Killing 3 Gets 2.2 Million Signatures

It's impossible to count that fast...

Posted by: California at August 25, 2025 11:17 AM (KoMOq)

67 Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

We are being trained.

Women, you are on your own. Enjoy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 25, 2025 11:18 AM (u82oZ)

68 I have to thank Gillette for that ad. Without it I might still be paying for ridiculous 5 blade expensive shavers, but I discovered the simplicity of old fashioned safety razor blades.

Better shave, fraction of the price.

Posted by: fozzy at August 25, 2025 11:18 AM (zH2yS)

69 U.S. Man Stabbed in Germany After Trying to Protect Women on Tram from Harassment By Migrants
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 11:17 AM

Did it say what the U.S. Man was ultimately charged with?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 25, 2025 11:18 AM (ySpAZ)

70 40 I am wondering though why Black Eyed Pea went under because their food was consistently good. They were my choice over Cracker Barrel.
Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:13 AM (EYmYM)

My wife and I loved Black Eyed Pea. It featured southern home style cooking, all the great recipes we loved. But younger people just don't eat that way anymore. Cracker Barrell was about the last one left, and as you say, they weren't as good.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 25, 2025 11:19 AM (uWKK8)

71 I bet there's a real market out there for a MAHA restaurant chain. Good, healthy, clean food in a casual but somewhat patriotic atmosphere. Nothing in your face. It may be a little on the expensive side due to the quality demands and omitting seed oils and other ultra-processed ingredients, but I bet such a venture would take off.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 25, 2025 11:19 AM (bNf8H)

72 They ought to now call it "Hacker Barrel".

I don't know this until the conservative guy in NY radio , Mark Simone, said it, but in addition to the change in logo and to minimalist "non country" decor, they took our some favorite menu items .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2025 11:19 AM (ZKF09)

73 Off-topic but for some reason I was thinking that I hope Trump's Presidential Medals of Freedom include people like Robbie Starbuck, Chris Rufo - and some of the prominent non-mainstream types who were the real "journalists" on things like RUSSIA! and COVID.

And one more - Rodney Smith, the guy who founded the "50 Lawn Challenge" project to get young people to mow lawns for disabled, elderly, vets, et al as a character-building thing.

In other words, people who most have never heard of - but who have made real contributions to civic health in what has largely been a dark period for same.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 25, 2025 11:20 AM (U/Byj)

74 I have avoided CB for many years now but mainly to poor service and awful changes to their menu. Now I simply have more reasons to continue my long-running personal boycott of CB.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at August 25, 2025 11:20 AM (YcfMX)

75
Sterile Logos birthed by Sterile Women.

Coincidence?

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: Fighting Fire With Gasoline! at August 25, 2025 11:20 AM (GiIml)

76 What happened to LuLu Lemon? Did they overestimate the number of soy boys who wanted to look like fagz?

_______________________

I remember reading about a Lululemon that was robbed of $20,000 in merchandise and my comment was "Authorities hope to recover both items"

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 25, 2025 11:20 AM (RifVr)

77 I would be just as disgusted if Cracker Barrel had decided to become a Hee Haw Hooters in order to attract more straight men.

Um, wait. Let's...think about that a minute.

Posted by: Paco at August 25, 2025 11:20 AM (mADJX)

78 The Chinese are taking over everything!

Taiwan Shuts Out Nevada 7-0 to Win Its First Little League World Series Title Since 1996

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 11:20 AM (L/fGl)

79 Cracker Barrel is also something of an symbol, and icon if you will for a certain demographic... white southerners. Mostly who lean right. They're pissed about the makeover. But they're equally (or more) pissed off about the symbology being taken from them.

It's not about the food, the décor or any of that stuff... not to the customers. It's about a symbol of their heritage being taken and made into something that bastardizes their very existence.

The "pride porch" makeover... painting the ubiquitous white and black rocking chairs rainbow colors was a clue what was coming.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 25, 2025 11:21 AM (Q4IgG)

80 I've eaten at Cracker Barrel once I think and it was rather underwhelming, tbh.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at August 25, 2025 11:21 AM (DJ7uY)

81 How long will it take for corporate execs to learn "go woke, go broke"?

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at August 25, 2025 11:08 AM

I have long believed that these corporate execs over the past 10-15 years know exactly what they are doing. They are deliberately choosing conservative values American companies and changing them to radical left values companies. If it works, great. If it doesn't, they still have destroyed a conservative values American company. Win-win. As Formerly Virginian stated earlier:

WHEREVER they are, they will use their position to promote their religion. They especially love to weasel into businesses, franchises, and nonprofits opposed to them.

There, they will either turn the enterprise to promoting their religion or burn it to the ground. Either is a win for them.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:04 AM

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 25, 2025 11:21 AM (P5BPp)

82 Although it's tempting to consider the CB rebrand as similar to the Butt Like rebrand, the two are actually very different. Yes, both were the result of leftwing AWFL idiots vomiting on the brands' core customers.

But Butt Like was still a strong, profitable brand at the time they brought in that twerp faggot. It was not in any financial or other danger. The rebrand wasn't done out of desperation. It was done as part of an insane plan to try to appeal to new, younger, more liberal drinkers. Of course it failed, but it wasn't a Hail Mary.

CB is a Hail Mary. The company is in deep shit. I personally think the company is done, and this is an example of "Go Broke, Get Woke" as a last-ditch effort to try to gain some woke cred as the company sinks into the tar pits.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

83 To a leftist Starbux executive everything looks lie a Starbucks coffee joint in Seattle.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 25, 2025 11:21 AM (17s+e)

84 I bet there's a real market out there for a MAHA restaurant chain. Good, healthy, clean food in a casual but somewhat patriotic atmosphere. Nothing in your face. It may be a little on the expensive side due to the quality demands and omitting seed oils and other ultra-processed ingredients, but I bet such a venture would take off.
Posted by: Frasier Crane

Yes, that's a great idea. I bet somebody will try it.

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

85 Dumplings.

SMH

Posted by: muldoon at August 25, 2025 11:22 AM (/iMjX)

86 Petition Supporting Illegal Trucker Accused of Killing 3 Gets 2.2 Million Signatures

Singapore got rid of trial by jury, because they noticed that Indians would vote to acquit Indian defendants, Malays would vote to acquit Malay defendants, and Chinese would vote to acquit Chinese defendants, no matter what the actual merits of the case were.

Good to see that we are importing that system here.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 25, 2025 11:22 AM (xTIDn)

87 So in addition to the $20 billion Dem slush fund Biden had attempted to stash via the EPA, we now have a $7.4 billion slush fund Biden attempted to stash via the CHIPS Act.

Instead of disbursing it via the Dept. of Commerce, in individual grants, they set up a brand new NGO, stuffed it with Biden staffers and allies and tried to send $7.4 billion there.

Not even a grant award to the NGO.
Just an "advance payment."
All completely outside of any accountability or oversight.

Good lord. How many more? How much more are they hiding?
They've been doing this for decades ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 25, 2025 11:22 AM (HuNM+)

88 F*ck cancer..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)

89 Hee Haw Hooters!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 25, 2025 11:23 AM (63Dwl)

90 For the record, I'd go to Hee Haw Hooters.

Posted by: Inogame at August 25, 2025 11:23 AM (53oGX)

91 I have to thank Gillette for that ad. Without it I might still be paying for ridiculous 5 blade expensive shavers, but I discovered the simplicity of old fashioned safety razor blades.

Better shave, fraction of the price.
Posted by: fozzy at August 25, 2025 11:18 AM (zH2yS)
-------------------------

Wish I could say the same. I had to hunt a while to find something that performed as well as my old Mach 3. The Gillette patent expired but they've had other patents on the connector or the lubricating strip that kept others from cloning the design for replacement blades. The only thing I found that performs the same are Barbasol Ultra 3 disposables.

Posted by: Caiwyn at August 25, 2025 11:23 AM (yHxqC)

92 74 I have avoided CB for many years now but mainly to poor service and awful changes to their menu. Now I simply have more reasons to continue my long-running personal boycott of CB.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at August 25, 2025 11:20 AM (YcfMX)

When the spouse wants collards and double green beans with chicken and dumplings soaked in tabasco, it's a nice place to go b/c I can get meatloaf, green beans, fried apples and sourdough toast (they replace the biscuits for my allergies)...it never makes one sick when driving 100s of miles in a day...

And the kids always have a required veg or fruit with their meal (which, when traveling, is so important, b/c it's too easy to eat trash).

Oh well, might have to see how me and Bob Evans can get along on their menu for my allergies. We did CB since my allergies b/c they were so good about them, at least at the midwest and southern locations we stopped at...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 25, 2025 11:24 AM (tOcjL)

93 Is there a point where I should return to a company I had dumped? I'm not an AFWL, I don't shower SM with threats to boycott a company. When a company insists on making it plain that they despise me or people I treasure like my dad or my conservative neighbors I simply stop buying from them if its at all feasible. I won't buy and PG products anymore (I used to buy Tide because its $$ but it works well) but I just added oxyclean to my laundry for years and then I stumbled on Purex which also works well. I don't buy Crest, I used to buy whatever toothpaste was on sale, but now they could have Crest at buy 1, get 2 free and I still won't buy it. I won't buy any InBev? (tranheiser-Busch) and I liked some of their products although I never cared for Bud and BudLight. I know I probably buy from lots of places that are anti-maga, I don't try to scout them out; they have to be obnoxiously vocal before I learn their views and drop them.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 25, 2025 11:24 AM (83y/e)

94 would be just as disgusted if Cracker Barrel had decided to become a Hee Haw Hooters in order to attract more straight men.

Um, wait. Let's...think about that a minute.
Posted by: Paco at August 25, 2025 11:20 AM (mADJX)

That’s a great idea if you’re going to make a huge change anyway. I’d give it a try.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:24 AM (EYmYM)

95 Hee Haw Hooters!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Misty Rowe and Barbie Benton!

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 11:24 AM (77rzZ)

96 Cracker Barrel has emotionally replaced the Red Lobster in my region. Ergo, it will be likely run (ran?) into the ground financially through poor management practices and theft, and then that will be blamed upon MAGA, deplorables, white adjacent, etc. for poor social attitudes v. reality.

No, clearing the store aisleways of kitschy decor and decently priced attire will not save the chain from theft and poor management IF that's a part of the community in which a restaurant is being operated. (They know the game by far better, EOs for no cash bail or not.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 25, 2025 11:25 AM (NFX2v)

97 All Cracker Barrel restaurants to have exterior remodels to Soviet style concrete blobs. That ought to rocket them to success.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 25, 2025 11:25 AM (17s+e)

98 97 All Cracker Barrel restaurants to have exterior remodels to Soviet style concrete blobs. That ought to rocket them to success.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 25, 2025 11:25 AM (17s+e)

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I've always loved a taste of brutalism in my shiplap choices.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:25 AM (GBKbO)

99 I remember the Alphabet people in college demanding a boycott of Cracker Bargle but I can't remember what got their panties in a twist

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 25, 2025 11:26 AM (RifVr)

100 They are deliberately choosing conservative values American companies and changing them to radical left values companies.

Rasmussen did that survey comparing the views of Ivy League graduates to other Americans, and they are in two completely different worlds - for example, a large majority of Ivy League graduates think that airplane travel should be rationed to reduce Global Warming, and almost no normies think that.

This is a problem.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 25, 2025 11:26 AM (xTIDn)

101 86 Petition Supporting Illegal Trucker Accused of Killing 3 Gets 2.2 Million Signatures

Singapore got rid of trial by jury, because they noticed that Indians would vote to acquit Indian defendants, Malays would vote to acquit Malay defendants, and Chinese would vote to acquit Chinese defendants, no matter what the actual merits of the case were.

Good to see that we are importing that system here.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 25, 2025 11:22 AM (xTIDn)

It was on line so I’m thinking many signatories were from India or fake.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:26 AM (EYmYM)

102 Not to offend anyone in the Seattle area, but the idea that anyone in the rest of the country would want to be like them is not only ridiculous, but thirty years out of date.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 25, 2025 11:26 AM (It4Li)

103 I've eaten at Cracker Barrel once I think and it was rather underwhelming, tbh.
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at August 25, 2025 11:21 AM (DJ7uY)

Early on, they were a quaint little place where you could get a decent country style breakfast at a reasonable price and a nice cup of coffee.

Last time I went to one, the food was shit, the service sucked and I didn't even bother with the coffee.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 11:26 AM (Zz0t1)

104 Crack Whore Barrel.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 25, 2025 11:02 AM

*perks up*
Posted by: H. Biden at August 25, 2025 11:08 AM (ySpAZ)

Quacker Barrel: specializes in duck dishes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 11:26 AM (Jf0CV)

105 All Cracker Barrel restaurants to have exterior remodels to Soviet style concrete blobs. That ought to rocket them to success.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 25, 2025 11:25 AM

It worked for us!

Posted by: Boston City Hall at August 25, 2025 11:27 AM (ySpAZ)

106 I think this re-branding is really secondary to the fact that Cracker Barrel's food sucks and the company has chased away long-time customers.
Posted by: mr tmz

When I married my first wife in 1988, we'd go to the newly opened CB in Lewisville, Texas at least twice a month. Sometimes in the early 2000's, the food quality changed. Biscuits were hard. Pot roast had no flavor. Same with the apples. Country ham was hard as a rock. Sorry. Too many other restaurants to choose from.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 11:27 AM (L9gr5)

107 I used to eat at Cracker Barrel occasionally, and I appreciated the home-style cooking. It's gone downhill significantly in the last few years. The kitsch decor never did much for me, but it was distinctive.

The new stuff is just bland and unremarkable.

The new CEO is no doubt pleased that the redesign and new logo scored well with their NY and LA focus groups.

Posted by: ChupaMe at August 25, 2025 11:27 AM (cNaCl)

108 > I bet there's a real market out there for a MAHA restaurant chain.
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They tried it. Vegan. Didn't work.

At least that's what I've been told for at least a decade. Vegan was the "healthy choice."

Horseshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 25, 2025 11:27 AM (Q4IgG)

109 The new logo is trash, and the interior redesign of the restaurant removes the signature nostalgia aspect (and the entire "brand" of Cracker Barrel was nostalgia + cheap comfort food in a sit-down setting).

Additionally, Cracker Barrel corporate is pushing the whole DEI mess.

There are completely separate issues (the rebranding itself isn't "woke", it's just dumb). However, there is a common linkage in that it's being pushed by the same CEO.

Posted by: can of spam at August 25, 2025 11:28 AM (7oNMO)

110 Next: Bob Evans chops his balls off.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 25, 2025 11:28 AM (u9vB8)

111 Quacker Barrel: specializes in duck dishes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 11:26 AM

I would totally go there.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 25, 2025 11:29 AM (ySpAZ)

112 Last time I went to one, the food was shit, the service sucked and I didn't even bother with the coffee.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

See #106.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 11:29 AM (L9gr5)

113
A Plan to Save Cracker Barrel:

Step 1:

New commercials starring Pedro Pascal

Step 2:

In the New CB Commercials PP prances around to EDM while licking Rainbow Colored Chicken Drumsticks

Step 3:

Prepare for flood of New Teh Ghey and Urban Diners!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 25, 2025 11:29 AM (iJfKG)

114 The Barrel>>> Cracker Barrel

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 25, 2025 11:29 AM (17s+e)

115 K-Pop Demon Hunter pulled in $18 million at the box office this weekend.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 11:09 AM (pfggt)

My daughters are all obsessed with that right now.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:29 AM (N1tpc)

116 Breakfast wise we have been going to a local charity bistro run by a church. Better food and cheaper than First Watch, our previous go to. If you want Cracker Bargle food and a similar ambience, Bob Evans is generally better than you'd expect.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 25, 2025 11:29 AM (RifVr)

117 I would be just as disgusted if Cracker Barrel had decided to become a Hee Haw Hooters in order to attract more straight men.

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I must admit, this idea intrigues me.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 25, 2025 11:29 AM (g8Ew8)

118 > I bet there's a real market out there for a MAHA restaurant chain.
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They tried it. Vegan. Didn't work.

At least that's what I've been told for at least a decade. Vegan was the "healthy choice."

Horseshit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 25, 2025 11:27 AM (Q4IgG)

Both McDonalds and Taco Bell tried the healthy menu and I liked it. Apparently no one else did.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:30 AM (EYmYM)

119 115 K-Pop Demon Hunter pulled in $18 million at the box office this weekend.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 11:09 AM (pfggt)

My daughters are all obsessed with that right now.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:29 AM (N1tpc)

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I want Korean cinema to gain greater appreciation...

but not this Korean cinema...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

120 The new CB logo is ugly. It barely qualifies as a "logo." Just an ugly font spelling out the name on an ugly yellow-orange background.
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its also *bland*. It could be anything. IF I weren't from this country and you told me Cracker Barrel was a budget hotel chain, there's nothing in the new logo that would make me question your statement.

Posted by: Crusader at August 25, 2025 11:30 AM (TN0g+)

121 99 I remember the Alphabet people in college demanding a boycott of Cracker Bargle but I can't remember what got their panties in a twist
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 25, 2025 11:26 AM (RifVr)
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In 1991 Cracker Barrel formally instituted a policy to fire and not hire gays. They reversed that policy that same year due to backlash, but they didn't adopt a formal nondiscrimination policy until 2002.

Posted by: Caiwyn at August 25, 2025 11:30 AM (yHxqC)

122 According to dcfmodeling.com, the three largest institutional investors in Cracker Barrel are as follows:

Vanguard Group, Inc. 11.58%
BlackRock Fund Advisors 6.37%
State Street Global Advisors, Inc 4.37%

What effect this may have on corporate policies is left as an exercise to the student.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 25, 2025 11:31 AM (OUMaO)

123 >How long will it take for corporate execs to learn "go woke, go broke"?
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when their fear of losing money and customers finally outweighs their fear of the woke mob

Posted by: Don Black at August 25, 2025 11:31 AM (AOsQT)

124 K-Pop Demon Hunter pulled in $18 million at the box office this weekend.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 11:09 AM (pfggt)

My daughters are all obsessed with that right now.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:29 AM (N1tpc)
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I'd be more interested in Demon Hunter K-Pop ... as in demons hunting K-Pop stars. You know, the reverse of the actual movie.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 11:31 AM (iFTx/)

125 Wish I could say the same. I had to hunt a while to find something that performed as well as my old Mach 3. The Gillette patent expired but they've had other patents on the connector or the lubricating strip that kept others from cloning the design for replacement blades. The only thing I found that performs the same are Barbasol Ultra 3 disposables.
Posted by: Caiwyn

Dollar Shave Club four blade razor. $10.68 every other month for four blades shipped.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 11:31 AM (L9gr5)

126 Pretty sure I'd read that at least one of the CB board of directors already was woke-aligned and that's how they got that CEO in the first place.

And I'm sure that at a few of these other companies, that's where it started. From Chick-fil-A to Disney, sometimes the woke takeover is bottom-up, sometimes top-down.

And this is a very interesting contrast with Buck Throckmorton's piece at Blaze media about how modern day C-Suite private equity driven M&A practices are also gutting the value and quality of America's products. And both of these on the for-profit AND non-profit side.

America's really burning the candle at both ends. Thank goodness we have DJT back in the White House and I pray MAGA continues to overwhelm the other wings of the party, and keeps Congress and the White House the next few elections.

For decades, America's corrupt political class was able to stay in power without being the cause of too much sh*t outside of a few urban cores. Then the Obama/Biden Admins came along. Hey RINOs you want back in power? First you gotta help MAGA fix what Obama, Biden and Pelosi broke in the last two decades.

Posted by: geewhiz at August 25, 2025 11:31 AM (wn50e)

127 Can anyone point out the success stories of a woke CEO rebuilding of an established brand for the "new consumer."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 25, 2025 11:32 AM (17s+e)

128 I can't boycott cracker barrel as I have not been to one in years. The food is barely adequate the prices are high and it is noisy as fvck inside.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 25, 2025 11:32 AM (0N4FZ)

129 Cracker Barrel is known for somewhat bland "comfort food", trying to go woke without first changing the food is odd.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 25, 2025 11:32 AM (sKqQm)

130
See #106.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 11:29 AM (L9gr5)

I've been to that one. Last time I paid attention to it, they had rainbow rockers on the front porch for 'pride' month.

Yeah, nope. Never again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)

131 For the record, I'd go to Hee Haw Hooters.
Posted by: Inogame

For a roll in the hay?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 11:32 AM (L/fGl)

132 Yes, let's make DC a state. What could go wrong?

>>@EricLDaugh
·
>>5m
🚨 BREAKING: Stephen Miller just revealed that a "massive scandal" has been uncovered in Washington DC. The Democrat-run police department has been extensively hiding crime statistics, going so far as reporting homicides as "accidents instead of m*rders."

>>"It will all be brought to light."

Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 11:32 AM (viF8m)

133 I haven't really been following this latest outrage.

what is wrong with the new Cracker Barrel logo?

Posted by: kallisto at August 25, 2025 11:32 AM (dCxaZ)

134 @110 Next: Bob Evans chops ~~his balls off~~ the whole hog up.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 25, 2025 11:33 AM (zdLoL)

135 108 > I bet there's a real market out there for a MAHA restaurant chain.
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They tried it. Vegan. Didn't work.

At least that's what I've been told for at least a decade. Vegan was the "healthy choice."

Horseshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 25, 2025 11:27 AM (Q4IgG)

Can we adopt Chipotle? Went there this weekend - do they give you an enormous value of healthy food for your money. I got 2 meals out of $11 - steak bowl with rice, black beans, pinto beans, double veg (peppers and onions), double salsa (pico and tomatillo), and lettuce - thing could barely hold the cover on, and it was tasty.

Yeah, I know, not really American food, and as I pointed out to the kids, the college male handles the original rice, both beans, and veg b/c those are cheap and they want to give value, so you don't notice the smaller meat scoop...but still 3 proteins and veg galore at that price? And very friendly and changed gloves with no issue...

Yeah, I know their past guac issues, but don't get that...and the issues did stem from them making their food. This is probably gonna replace CB for travel and veg pushes...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 25, 2025 11:33 AM (tOcjL)

136
Pot roast had no flavor.

__________

Pot roast never has flavor. You can sauce it, stew it, marinate it, it makes no difference. It tastes like a cheap piece of meat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 11:33 AM (MPLXB)

137 I still haven’t gone to a dick’s sports store or purchased a Nike product in over 7 years.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:33 AM (EYmYM)

138 133 I haven't really been following this latest outrage.

what is wrong with the new Cracker Barrel logo?
Posted by: kallisto at August 25, 2025 11:32 AM (dCxaZ)

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Corporate blandness papering over systemic issues unrelated to branding while chasing "modern audiences".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:33 AM (GBKbO)

139 Next rebranding? Four Guys and a Tranny Burgers.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 11:33 AM (L/fGl)

140 K-Pop Demon Hunter pulled in $18 million at the box office this weekend.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 11:09 AM (pfggt)

My daughters are all obsessed with that right now.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:29 AM (N1tpc)

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I want Korean cinema to gain greater appreciation...

but not this Korean cinema...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
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The "Admiral" trilogy is good. Some really good effects and battle scenes, well acted, compelling (and true) stories. On the downside, there are way too many characters and it's hard to keep track of who is who. The last movie was particularly confusing to watch because of that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

141 I love country ham. Both Waffle House and Cracker Barrel used to serve it. Now they serve picnic ham. Not the same thing.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 11:34 AM (c711F)

142 oh, never mind, I see it in Buck's writing

customers don't like that the man and the words Country Store are gone.

ok. But is the food still good?

wtaf it sounds like this restaurant is a cult or some sheet

Posted by: kallisto at August 25, 2025 11:34 AM (dCxaZ)

143 Cracker Barrel restaurants are not franchised. All locations are company-owned and operated by Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc

Pot of money awaits the thugs.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 25, 2025 11:34 AM (NFX2v)

144
Nouvelle cuisine bacon and eggs. It's the new thing!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 11:34 AM (MPLXB)

145 140
The "Admiral" trilogy is good. Some really good effects and battle scenes, well acted, compelling (and true) stories. On the downside, there are way too many characters and it's hard to keep track of who is who. The last movie was particularly confusing to watch because of that.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

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My knowledge of Korean cinema is shockingly shallow, mostly relegated to the works of Bong Joon-Ho and Park Chan-Wook.

It's something I need to explore more.

But first, teenage goofiness with John Hughes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

146 haven't really been following this latest outrage.

what is wrong with the new Cracker Barrel logo?
Posted by: kallisto at August 25, 2025 11:32 AM (dCxaZ)

They took away the cracker and the barrel.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:35 AM (EYmYM)

147
Dollar Shave Club four blade razor. $10.68 every other month for four blades shipped.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 11:31 AM (L9gr5)

They changed their handles and the wife and daughter disapproved. They're with that other shave club now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 11:35 AM (Zz0t1)

148 29
‘ Causing people to conflate deviant sex with food has to be the worst marketing move in history. And that is precisely what they are doing.’

The problem is even more general than that.
They’re saying ‘Fuck the customer and what they believe. I know better and I’m going to force my opinion on them.’

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 25, 2025 11:35 AM (jbnUc)

149 Dollar Shave Club four blade razor. $10.68 every other month for four blades shipped.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 11:31 AM (L9gr5)

Safety razor. 50 pack of good blades from Amazon. Easily last at least a year. $8.99.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 25, 2025 11:35 AM (ExV1e)

150 Sadly, you can add Chip and Joanna Gaines to the Gay Boycott Brigade. After launching a new frontier reality show with a gay couple and their two boys, and -- more importantly -- offering a tone-deaf defense to Christians who questioned their motives, the Gainses have now backed a hyper-gay roller skating contest show on their network. The show features none other than the supremely queer Jonny Weir as a judge.

Expect stock prices on shiplap to plummet.

Posted by: red speck at August 25, 2025 11:35 AM (0Id0S)

151 These boycotts seldom work. Bud recovered because after a while everyone just goes back to what they used to do. Woke CEOs know this.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 25, 2025 11:35 AM (wrRTB)

152
Hee Haw Hooters

here's your waitress

https://tinyurl.com/ydpfm2nj

Posted by: Don Black at August 25, 2025 11:35 AM (AOsQT)

153 133 I haven't really been following this latest outrage.

what is wrong with the new Cracker Barrel logo?
Posted by: kallisto at August 25, 2025 11:32 AM (dCxaZ)
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They removed the southern grandpa iconography. But it's not just the logo. It's the systematic erasure of the old country aesthetic from the restaurant entirely. They're remodeling the interiors of restaurants into a bland Millennial White aesthetic because the AWFL CEO thinks anything old and southern is racist.

Posted by: Caiwyn at August 25, 2025 11:35 AM (yHxqC)

154 I saw the Hee Haw Hooters open for Pearl Jam at The Off Ramp in '91.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2028: Fighting Fire With Gasoline! at August 25, 2025 11:35 AM (j4HU3)

155 But first, teenage goofiness with John Hughes.

Jennifer Conolley on the mechanical bull.

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

156 133 I haven't really been following this latest outrage.

what is wrong with the new Cracker Barrel logo?

generic bland crap probably spat out by chatgpt

Posted by: anachronda at August 25, 2025 11:36 AM (edU/H)

157 I personally see nothing wrong with Hee Haw Hooters, Buck.

Posted by: Polka will never die at August 25, 2025 11:36 AM (uxAXv)

158 I love country ham. Both Waffle House and Cracker Barrel used to serve it. Now they serve picnic ham. Not the same thing.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 11:34 AM (c711F)

Last time I had CB's excuse for country ham, I might as well have gone into a pasture and gnawed on a salt lick.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)

159 Cracker Barrel is known for somewhat bland "comfort food", trying to go woke without first changing the food is odd.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 25, 2025 11:32 AM (sKqQm)

They did change the menu.

An article I saw mentioned new dinner items they're adding. Not really country cooking but kinda sorta "country" adjacent.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 25, 2025 11:37 AM (iJfKG)

160 155 But first, teenage goofiness with John Hughes.

Jennifer Conolley on the mechanical bull.
Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

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Just his directed stuff, so no Career Opportunities.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

161 Rebrands are popular for some reason.
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It appeals to the middle-management class that inevitably captures any corporation.
Those mediocrities that never worked the floor, producing the core product of the entity.
The very risk averse that have spent their whole career doing ... nothing.
But promotions put them at the top.
They know nothing of the product, nothing of the customer--only numbers and risk.
A logo redesign is a low-risk move to generate "buzz."
Perfect for do-nothings.

Another example is Apple. Which went from caring about new, innovative products to caring about shareholder value.
Billions for stock buybacks; nothing for R&D.
And now they are losing both.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 25, 2025 11:37 AM (HuNM+)

162 Set your DVRs!

New reality show from Chip and Joanna Gaines features "queer activist" host, "crossdressing judge," "all-LGBTQ skate team"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)

163 Kilmar Abrego Garcia is in custody, and is being prepared for deportation.

Happy Monday.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 25, 2025 11:38 AM (xTIDn)

164 We used to go to a Breakfast-lunch joint called Little Annies. Reasonable, good food, lots of it and quick service. The waitresses were all middle aged or older and surly as hell but you got exactly what you ordered fast.

They would come by and ask for your order and if you hymned and hawed they would just move on to the next table and tell you they were busy and be ready next time.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 25, 2025 11:39 AM (17s+e)

165 K-Pop Demon Hunter pulled in $18 million at the box office this weekend.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 25, 2025 11:09 AM (pfggt)

My daughters are all obsessed with that right now.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:29 AM (N1tpc)

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I want Korean cinema to gain greater appreciation...

but not this Korean cinema...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

Don't knock the effects of even crap like this. It's made my oldest want to learn Korean, which will likely lead to a greater appreciation for Korean cinema.

(My wife learned Japanese in high school for Sailor Moon and the like, for example.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:39 AM (N1tpc)

166 Dollar Shave Club four blade razor. $10.68 every other month for four blades shipped.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 11:31 AM (L9gr5)
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I actually prefer three blades. More blades makes it easier for hair to clog the head of the razor. It's also a matter of what angle the blades sit at. The Mach 3 formula was perfection. Barbasol is the only brand that seems to have successfully copied it.

Posted by: Caiwyn at August 25, 2025 11:39 AM (yHxqC)

167 Just his directed stuff, so no Career Opportunities.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I thought he did direct that.

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

168 The "Admiral" trilogy is good. Some really good effects and battle scenes, well acted, compelling (and true) stories. On the downside, there are way too many characters and it's hard to keep track of who is who. The last movie was particularly confusing to watch because of that.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

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My knowledge of Korean cinema is shockingly shallow, mostly relegated to the works of Bong Joon-Ho and Park Chan-Wook.

It's something I need to explore more.

But first, teenage goofiness with John Hughes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)
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Bong Joon-Ho is comically over-rated. I don't like any of his movies. Crap. Park Chan-Wook is also overrated, but at least he does have some talent. I liked some of his earlier movies.

The "Rundown" series is also good. It's basically a big burly Korean cop beating the shit out of bad guys, who never seem to realize he's much too tough for them to beat in a fight. He lays out 5 guys, and the 6th guy still comes at him.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 11:39 AM (iFTx/)

169
New reality show from Chip and Joanna Gaines features "queer activist" host, "crossdressing judge," "all-LGBTQ skate team"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at August 25, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)

Quality, Christian programming coming from the Gaines nowadays.

They went woke. Soon broke?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

170 "Pot roast had no flavor." Ah, the Old Country Buffet recipe and it's no longer in operation.

Look to the Golden Corral.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 25, 2025 11:39 AM (NFX2v)

171 Not only did CB change the stores they also fired white men who worked there. There is a lawsuit or DOJ investigation (or both?) into this.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 25, 2025 11:39 AM (wrRTB)

172 These boycotts seldom work. Bud recovered because after a while everyone just goes back to what they used to do. Woke CEOs know this.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 25, 2025 11:35 AM (wrRTB)

I don’t boycott to bring down a company. I boycott because I won’t do business with someone who goes against my personal beliefs. It’s not about them as it is more about me.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:39 AM (EYmYM)

173 161 A logo redesign is a low-risk move to generate "buzz."
Perfect for do-nothings.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 25, 2025 11:37 AM (HuNM+)

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I think it goes beyond that.

CEOs aren't brought in from the outside to maintain the status quo. They are brought in as agents of change.

They replace most of upper management with people they already know, with no loyalty or history with the new company, and they try to remake the company in their own image.

Bringing in a new CEO and not allowing them to replace any directors of VPs could keep them in check, but then CEOs won't want the job.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

174 50
‘ He's icky and smells old, so she got rid of him.’

In fairness, old people smell puts me off my food too.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 25, 2025 11:39 AM (jbnUc)

175 I bet there's a real market out there for a MAHA restaurant chain. Good, healthy, clean food in a casual but somewhat patriotic atmosphere. Nothing in your face. It may be a little on the expensive side due to the quality demands and omitting seed oils and other ultra-processed ingredients, but I bet such a venture would take off.
Posted by: Frasier Crane

I would tell you to go ahead and enjoy your colorless cardboard food. I'll be here enjoying my greasy burgers on grill-toasted processed gluten dripping buns. Mmmmm.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 25, 2025 11:39 AM (g8Ew8)

176
Prefer a couple of greasy spoon places nearby for comfort food myself. Unpretentious plain fare, but hot and in generous portions for not much money.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 11:40 AM (MPLXB)

177 163 Kilmar Abrego Garcia is in custody, and is being prepared for deportation.

Happy Monday.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 25, 2025 11:38 AM (xTIDn)

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Wednesday at 4 is apparently the earliest it can happen based on the 72 hour notification requirement from Judge Xinis that the DOJ/ICE didn't contest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

178 Kilmar Abrego Garcia is in custody, and is being prepared for deportation.

Happy Monday.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 25, 2025 11:38 AM (xTIDn)

NOT SO FAST, my friend......

- -- - - - - Hawaiian Judge Leemond Corso

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

179 167 Just his directed stuff, so no Career Opportunities.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I thought he did direct that.
Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

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Bryan Gordon.

As an aside, who the fuck is Bryan Gordon?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)

180 Thx Buck . The Cracker Barrel stuff is not registering with the left. A friend who is kind of a moderate said he ate there the other day and still good. This was posted on Facebook. Other friends of his who I don't know said it was all ridiculous. I pointed out that if you lose somewhere between $100 and 200m in market cap you ought to reassess your decisions. No one challenged that fact

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 11:41 AM (9GN4U)

181 Travel through a small Texas town. Find the local cafe for breakfast.

Enjoy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 11:41 AM (Zz0t1)

182 These boycotts seldom work. Bud recovered because after a while everyone just goes back to what they used to do. Woke CEOs know this.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Bennigan's & TGIFridays has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 11:41 AM (L9gr5)

183 CB never had coffee. Just brown water.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at August 25, 2025 11:41 AM (JCLJi)

184 These boycotts seldom work. Bud recovered because after a while everyone just goes back to what they used to do.
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Maybe where you are at but here the shelf space is gone. from 4 across to 1 in refer section. And Bud Lite is selling less than 35% of pre tranny fuck up.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 25, 2025 11:41 AM (17s+e)

185 These boycotts seldom work. Bud recovered because after a while everyone just goes back to what they used to do. Woke CEOs know this.

But CEOs live and die on quarterly results.

Saying: "Sure, we'll lose a ton of money for a year or two, but then things will get back to normal" will not save them.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 25, 2025 11:42 AM (xTIDn)

186 168 Bong Joon-Ho is comically over-rated. I don't like any of his movies. Crap. Park Chan-Wook is also overrated, but at least he does have some talent. I liked some of his earlier movies.

The "Rundown" series is also good. It's basically a big burly Korean cop beating the shit out of bad guys, who never seem to realize he's much too tough for them to beat in a fight. He lays out 5 guys, and the 6th guy still comes at him.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 11:39 AM (iFTx/)

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I get real whiplash from Bong Joon-Ho. Like, I really like Parasite and Snowpiercer, but Okja was just a real weird mess.

I'm a Park Chan-wook fanboi, though. Dude's cinema just makes me happy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

187 Only ate once at a CB. In Virginia. Some years ago. One of the best breakfasts I've ever enjoyed.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 25, 2025 11:43 AM (2WIwB)

188 Hee Haw Hooters
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Hoes, heifers, he-haws and hula hoops.

Chappelle, skip to 1:30. Hilarity ensues.

https://tinyto.me/qA1c_Ts

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 25, 2025 11:43 AM (XvL8K)

189 In fairness, old people smell puts me off my food too.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

How old does one have to be to get that Old People's Smell?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 11:43 AM (L9gr5)

190 >>Travel through a small Texas town. Find the local cafe for breakfast.

>>Enjoy.

In my experience same thing applies everywhere in the US.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 11:44 AM (viF8m)

191 They removed the southern grandpa iconography. But it's not just the logo. It's the systematic erasure of the old country aesthetic from the restaurant entirely. They're remodeling the interiors of restaurants into a bland Millennial White aesthetic because the AWFL CEO thinks anything old and southern is racist.

ok now I get it

it is much bigger than the logo

the South is one of the few regions in this nation that has any flava left...why not just homogenize the shit out of it like every other farking thing has been flattened out

Posted by: kallisto at August 25, 2025 11:45 AM (dCxaZ)

192 Hamastinians in Ottawa hijacked a Pride Parade (I don't know if Canada has a Pride Quarter instead of a Pride Month, but it is The Land of Castreau.).
Say what you will about Muslims, but they're good at hijacking.

Posted by: Wally at August 25, 2025 11:45 AM (7CamO)

193
In my experience same thing applies everywhere in the US.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 11:44 AM (viF8m)

I'm fine with that. Likely true.

I only have this one state example as I don't travel much anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)

194 A lot of chain restaurants are trying to save money by reducing their food costs. That’s just a slow death.
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Every single one of the failing restaurants on those restaurant rescue shows have one or both of the following:
1) cut food costs, lowering quality
2) they inflate the menu beyond the "identity" to try to attract new customer.

Drive away those who are your customers and try to attract those who aren't.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 25, 2025 11:45 AM (HuNM+)

195 @119

>>but not this Korean cinema.

All I care about is Caught Stealing seems to be getting good reviews, that and One Battle After Another is all I'm interested in for the rest of 2025.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 25, 2025 11:46 AM (YmH4X)

196 191 the South is one of the few regions in this nation that has any flava left...why not just homogenize the shit out of it like every other farking thing has been flattened out
Posted by: kallisto at August 25, 2025 11:45 AM (dCxaZ)

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The whole thing reminds me of an early-ish bit in The World's End.

The first two pubs of the twelve on the Golden Mile are identical. The exact same set with some minor branding changes. A joke on the corporatization of small town British life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

197 Travel through a small Texas town. Find the local cafe for breakfast.

>>Enjoy.

In my experience same thing applies everywhere in the US.
Posted by: JackStraw

CB set up just off interstates for the traveling populace that didn't have time to get off the freeway and drive thru a podunk town looking for the local diner.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 25, 2025 11:46 AM (L9gr5)

198 I bet there's a real market out there for a MAHA restaurant chain. Good, healthy, clean food in a casual but somewhat patriotic atmosphere. Nothing in your face. It may be a little on the expensive side due to the quality demands and omitting seed oils and other ultra-processed ingredients, but I bet such a venture would take off.
Posted by: Frasier Crane

I would tell you to go ahead and enjoy your colorless cardboard food. I'll be here enjoying my greasy burgers on grill-toasted processed gluten dripping buns. Mmmmm.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 25, 2025 11:39 AM (g8Ew

Steak 'n Shake just replaced their vegetable oils with beef tallow.

That's MAHA.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:46 AM (N1tpc)

199
Speaking of the vegan restaurant, apparently there was a successful one in New York called "Pure." The chef/owner produced a cookbook that I'm curious about. The restaurant went down in flames because of weird financial and other scandalous stuff that got made into one of our current documentaries available for streaming.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 25, 2025 11:47 AM (cPNCv)

200 192 Hamastinians in Ottawa hijacked a Pride Parade (I don't know if Canada has a Pride Quarter instead of a Pride Month, but it is The Land of Castreau.).
Say what you will about Muslims, but they're good at hijacking.
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Did they toss any fagz from buildings?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 11:47 AM (c711F)

201 195 All I care about is Caught Stealing seems to be getting good reviews, that and One Battle After Another is all I'm interested in for the rest of 2025.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 25, 2025 11:46 AM (YmH4X)

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I saw something that said that Caught Stealing was getting middling reviews, at best. I dunno. Not a huge Aronosfsky fan, but the trailer did look fun.

I'm mostly wondering how to do the Hammer filmography while keeping my sanity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

202 These boycotts seldom work. Bud recovered because after a while everyone just goes back to what they used to do. Woke CEOs know this.

But CEOs live and die on quarterly results.

Saying: "Sure, we'll lose a ton of money for a year or two, but then things will get back to normal" will not save them.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 25, 2025 11:42 AM (xTIDn)
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Butt Like "recovered" ... to where it's still about 30% down on sales pre-assfuck. That's a disaster.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 11:47 AM (iFTx/)

203 >> bet there's a real market out there for a MAHA restaurant chain.
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They tried it. Vegan. Didn't work.
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Nah, I'm talking about a restaurant that serves locally harvested game. Wild turkey, boar bacon, venison - stuff like that. Maybe even encourage hunters to be part of the supply chain. Hunters get a discount and/or maybe make some money as a supplier. I know, it would probably be a regulatory nightmare, but I can daydream.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 25, 2025 11:47 AM (bNf8H)

204 >>I'm fine with that. Likely true.

It just seems that if a small town restaurant can survive for years they usually do it by making good food. They aren't doing it with advertising or gimmicks.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 11:47 AM (viF8m)

205 86
‘ Petition Supporting Illegal Trucker Accused of Killing 3 Gets 2.2 Million Signatures

Singapore got rid of trial by jury, ….

Good to see that we are importing that system here.’

It’s the right move when you find yourself in a country filled with strangers that are called ‘citizens’

I just hope those names are databased somewhere for future settlement of accounts.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 25, 2025 11:48 AM (jbnUc)

206
They changed their handles and the wife and daughter disapproved. They're with that other shave club now.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 11:35 AM (Zz0t1)

I buy the generic single-blades disposables. They work well enough. And Barbasol shave cream.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 11:49 AM (ZO20Q)

207 My favorite is charting the changes at McDonalds.

From kid-focused bright colors and playrooms to the dull greys of boring middle-age.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 25, 2025 11:49 AM (HuNM+)

208 199
Speaking of the vegan restaurant, apparently there was a successful one in New York called "Pure." The chef/owner produced a cookbook that I'm curious about. The restaurant went down in flames because of weird financial and other scandalous stuff that got made into one of our current documentaries available for streaming.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 25, 2025 11:47 AM (cPNCv)

There is a way to make good, and even hearty, vegan food.

Most vegan food places don't try that concept. They try the fast food junk approach using meat replacement chemical creations.

I've ordered some awesome vegan dishes from non-vegan restaurants. I've turned vegan dishes from those restaurants into non-vegan ones to suit my allergy. I've found non-vegan places are the places with the best tasting and healthiest vegan options...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 25, 2025 11:50 AM (tOcjL)

209 Nah, I'm talking about a restaurant that serves locally harvested game. Wild turkey, boar bacon, venison - stuff like that. Maybe even encourage hunters to be part of the supply chain. Hunters get a discount and/or maybe make some money as a supplier. I know, it would probably be a regulatory nightmare, but I can daydream.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 25, 2025 11:47 AM (bNf8H)

No probably. The regulations on wild-caught game for sale would make it ridiculously expensive.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:50 AM (N1tpc)

210 An I ask a question in regard to a previous thread in which this was posted ?

"David @DMStThomas
Priest in Denver preaches Gospel, warns of hell, reminds them missing Mass is a sin, removes feminist art"

I have never attended Mass at a large city church in Denver or any other major "blue" city or What is feminist religious art?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2025 11:50 AM (2GCMq)

211 The Cracker Barrel "takeover" is typical of any brand or icon that the right embraces. It's what the left does. They don't care about profitability. It's about destroying something the right enjoys.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 25, 2025 11:51 AM (Q4IgG)

212 My favorite is charting the changes at McDonalds.

From kid-focused bright colors and playrooms to the dull greys of boring middle-age.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 25, 2025 11:49 AM (HuNM+)

My wife and I have been noticing that "family atmosphere" appears to be anathema to chain restaurants now.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:51 AM (N1tpc)

213 @201

>>I saw something that said that Caught Stealing was getting middling reviews, at best. I dunno. Not a huge Aronosfsky fan, but the trailer did look fun.

Roger Ebert gave Snatch a two star review, it's one of the best films of the last 25 years.

I don't like Aranofsky, but this film looks like a straight up homage to Snatch and me likey what I see.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 25, 2025 11:51 AM (YmH4X)

214 The New York Times, August 19, 2025 - 'At Hamptons Fund-Raiser, Cuomo Predicts Help From Trump Is on the Way' Andrew M. Cuomo, who trails in the polls for New York City mayor, is said to have told a crowd of donors that he believed President Trump would help smooth his path to victory.
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Cuomo should be forgiven - just in example - for the C19 debacles, how many deaths, how much wasted time & money, his all in 'game' participation and so much more?

Yeah, a devil and the deep blue sea choice for the city. It's theirs. And, no, I'm calling complete and total bullshIt that Cuomo is now a full blown Trumpist.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 25, 2025 11:51 AM (NFX2v)

215 Speaking of the vegan restaurant, apparently there was a successful one in New York called "Pure." The chef/owner produced a cookbook that I'm curious about. The restaurant went down in flames because of weird financial and other scandalous stuff that got made into one of our current documentaries available for streaming.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 25, 2025 11:47 AM (cPNCv)
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Pure Food and Wine. I always suspected the entire operation was money-laundering (which I suspect of many restaurants, clubs, and bars). The ending with the owners fleeing law enforcement did nothing to quell my suspicions.

The ultra-expensive (and comically overrated) Eleven Madison Park just ditched it's insane vegan-only menu to go back to meats.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

216 213 Roger Ebert gave Snatch a two star review, it's one of the best films of the last 25 years.

I don't like Aranofsky, but this film looks like a straight up homage to Snatch and me likey what I see.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 25, 2025 11:51 AM (YmH4X)

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Hey, man, it was you who brought up the reviews first!

"All I care about is Caught Stealing seems to be getting good reviews,"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

217 It just seems that if a small town restaurant can survive for years they usually do it by making good food. They aren't doing it with advertising or gimmicks.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 11:47 AM (viF8m)

OR, being the only restaurant in town.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 25, 2025 11:52 AM (g8Ew8)

218 What is feminist religious art?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2025 11:50 AM (2GCMq)

Crap.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:52 AM (N1tpc)

219 >>No probably. The regulations on wild-caught game for sale would make it ridiculously expensive.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:50 AM (N1tpc)
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That's what executive orders are for.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 25, 2025 11:52 AM (bNf8H)

220 Bob Hope was right.

You have to participate whether you want to or not. Its lemmings jumping off a cliff.
They just want so badly to stay in the in group, that they will self destruct. Meanwhile they drag things off the cliff with them.

Posted by: Simplemind at August 25, 2025 11:52 AM (yxoWI)

221 Country waitresses used to carry their pencil stuck in their Beehive hairdo. The Bat Lobby ruined that, because their foul flying rodents nest in ladies hairstyles. Ruined an entire industry!

Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at August 25, 2025 11:52 AM (G5+As)

222 Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:52 AM (N1tpc)

Ok. But that's not terribly descriptive.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2025 11:53 AM (2GCMq)

223 221 Country waitresses used to carry their pencil stuck in their Beehive hairdo. The Bat Lobby ruined that, because their foul flying rodents nest in ladies hairstyles. Ruined an entire industry!
Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at August 25, 2025 11:52 AM (G5+As)

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And that was the moment that Big Penguin chose...violence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

224 Somewhere the Uncle Ben's rice guy and the Cracker Barrel guy are having coffee while playing checkers and Aunt Jemimah is laughing at both of the old coots.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 25, 2025 11:53 AM (2WIwB)

225 222 Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:52 AM (N1tpc)

Ok. But that's not terribly descriptive.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2025 11:53 AM (2GCMq)

I'd imagine "feminist" religious art depicts God the Father as female...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 25, 2025 11:54 AM (tOcjL)

226
Park Chan-wook's Revenge Trilogy is good. After that, pretty meh.

Bong Joon-Ho's "Memories of Murder" is pretty great. "Parasite" is good.
Everything else is a mess. He gets kudos cuz he approaches everything from a far left perspective.
"Mickey 17" was a new all-time low for him.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 25, 2025 11:54 AM (iJfKG)

227 Rebrands are popular for some reason. Bentley changed its flying "B" logo from a distinctive wingspan to a ... less distinctive wingspan. Why? Nobody knows.

Because somewhere during the Obama administration, corporate America became convinced that women hate color and detail (and left-wing women loudly agreed). Hence all of the monochromatic line-art logos replacing well-loved ones, and the absolute hell you have to go through to buy a new car that isn't black, white, or gray.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 11:54 AM (2ocoG)

228 New reality show from Chip and Joanna Gaines features "queer activist" host, "crossdressing judge," "all-LGBTQ skate team"
____________

The pitch meeting: " Imagine RuPauls Drag Race... On roller skates!"

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 25, 2025 11:54 AM (RifVr)

229 @216

>>Hey, man, it was you who brought up the reviews first!

Wanna get nuts?

** Picks up fireplace poker **

Let's get nuts!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 25, 2025 11:54 AM (YmH4X)

230 Ok. But that's not terribly descriptive.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2025 11:53 AM (2GCMq)

I'll grant that since it encompasses all of modern art.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:54 AM (N1tpc)

231 224 Somewhere the Uncle Ben's rice guy and the Cracker Barrel guy are having coffee while playing checkers and Aunt Jemimah is laughing at both of the old coots.
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The Land of Lakes Squaw gets totally forgotten. Raycis.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 11:54 AM (c711F)

232 226
Park Chan-wook's Revenge Trilogy is good. After that, pretty meh.

Bong Joon-Ho's "Memories of Murder" is pretty great. "Parasite" is good.
Everything else is a mess. He gets kudos cuz he approaches everything from a far left perspective.
"Mickey 17" was a new all-time low for him.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 25, 2025 11:54 AM (iJfKG)

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Decision to Leave, Thirst, and The Handmaiden are all gems, I say! Gems!

I even have a soft spot for his English work Stoker and the miniseries adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

233 In my experience same thing applies everywhere in the US.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 25, 2025 11:44 AM (viF8m)

I'm fine with that. Likely true.

I only have this one state example as I don't travel much anymore.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 11:45 AM

I heartily endorse the small town diner in NH where we do breakfast with RI Red and crew before shooting.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 25, 2025 11:55 AM (ySpAZ)

234 Posted by: Nova Local at August 25, 2025 11:54 AM (tOcjL

Thanks. I've never seen that in a RCC.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2025 11:55 AM (2GCMq)

235 229 @216

>>Hey, man, it was you who brought up the reviews first!

Wanna get nuts?

** Picks up fireplace poker **

Let's get nuts!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 25, 2025 11:54 AM (YmH4X)

=======

Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

236 Roger Ebert gave Snatch a two star review, it's one of the best films of the last 25 years.

Ebert is a seething liberal retard who thought Michael Moore made documentaries.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

237 234 Posted by: Nova Local at August 25, 2025 11:54 AM (tOcjL

Thanks. I've never seen that in a RCC.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2025 11:55 AM (2GCMq)

You shouldn't - apparently, this Church was an outlier, so when a new bishop was installed, he sent this priest to clean it up.

Posted by: Nova Local at August 25, 2025 11:56 AM (tOcjL)

238 Expect stock prices on shiplap to plummet.

The Gaines' actually stopped using shiplap around 2018.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 11:56 AM (2ocoG)

239 BUT...the CEO of Cracker Barrel has:

\(0)n(o)/ POWER GLASSES!!!!!

Posted by: Orson at August 25, 2025 11:56 AM (dIske)

240 189
‘ How old does one have to be to get that Old People's Smell?’

However old you are + 20 years, Rick.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 25, 2025 11:56 AM (jbnUc)

241 think this re-branding is really secondary to the fact that Cracker Barrel's food sucks and the company has chased away long-time customers.
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Bucees > cracker barrel
game over man. Game. Over.

Posted by: Simplemind at August 25, 2025 11:56 AM (yxoWI)

242 But first, teenage goofiness with John Hughes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:34 AM

"Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way...turn."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 25, 2025 11:56 AM (ySpAZ)

243 Because somewhere during the Obama administration, corporate America became convinced that women hate color and detail (and left-wing women loudly agreed). Hence all of the monochromatic line-art logos replacing well-loved ones, and the absolute hell you have to go through to buy a new car that isn't black, white, or gray.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 11:54 AM (2ocoG)

I'm COLORBLIND and I miss seeing various colors of cars of the road. It's like the ghost of Henry Ford took over all the other car companies design. ("You can have any color you want, so long as it's slate!")

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:56 AM (N1tpc)

244 Somewhere the Uncle Ben's rice guy and the Cracker Barrel guy are having coffee while playing checkers and Aunt Jemimah is laughing at both of the old coots.
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The Land of Lakes Squaw gets totally forgotten. Raycis.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 11:54 AM (c711F)

***

Yeh, a s soon as I hit POST, I remembered.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 25, 2025 11:57 AM (2WIwB)

245 Also:
Women do not make good CEOs.
Women don't take risks, they want safety.

No, the exception "so and so, she a great CEO!" does not change that.
And no, "so and so CEO was a male and ruined XYZ corp" also does not change that.

The future is a risk; the CEO must take risks.
Slow and safe is death.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 25, 2025 11:57 AM (HuNM+)

246 Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

What?...

Just something I ask of all my prey.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:57 AM (N1tpc)

247 Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Takes Steps to End Cashless Bail to Protect Americans, The White House, August 25, 2025

PREVENTING FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR SENSELESS CASHLESS BAIL: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to protect Americans by ensuring Federal policies and resources are not used to support cashless bail policies across the Nation.

The Order directs the Attorney General to submit a list of States and local jurisdictions with cashless bail policies.
The Order instructs the Administration to identify Federal funds currently provided to cashless bail jurisdictions that may be suspended or terminated.
STOPPING DANGEROUS RELEASE: Cashless bail policies allow dangerous individuals to immediately return to the streets and further endanger law-abiding, hard-working Americans because they know our laws will not be enforced.

More...

ha, ha, ha!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 25, 2025 11:57 AM (NFX2v)

248 Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 11:54 AM (N1tpc)

At what period does "modern art" start? . Are the Impressionists considered "modern"? I think they were at the time, or are you speaking of art from the 1960's or '70's on?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2025 11:57 AM (2GCMq)

249 Wish I could say the same. I had to hunt a while to find something that performed as well as my old Mach 3. The Gillette patent expired but they've had other patents on the connector or the lubricating strip that kept others from cloning the design for replacement blades. The only thing I found that performs the same are Barbasol Ultra 3 disposables.

Posted by: Caiwyn at August 25, 2025 11:23 AM

From the comments back during the Gillette discussion posts years ago, someone had recommended Dorco Pace 6 Pro. I have been using that ever since.

Prior to that, I had switched from decades-long use of Gillette to Dollar Shave Club and another company I can't remember the name. But when both those companies went woke during the BLM Summer of George, I had to find a different brand. Dorco has worked for me.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 25, 2025 11:57 AM (P5BPp)

250 There was a meme which showed Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, Land o lakes Indian all being eliminated. That last one standing was the Quaker Oats white guy. Racist

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 11:58 AM (9GN4U)

251 CB set up just off interstates for the traveling populace that didn't have time to get off the freeway and drive thru a podunk town looking for the local diner.

And/or don't want be told to squeal like a pig. (Pete Buttgigger would pay extra for that).

Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 11:58 AM (2ocoG)

252 Funny thing is that two conservatives on X were in general agreement condemning the new wokeness of Cracker Barrel, but only disagreeing that the food was any good to begin with. In alignment with national and ethnic stereotypes, one was French, the other Italian-American. To quote the latter, "Cracker Barrel always tasted like ***!"

Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 25, 2025 11:58 AM (675Cc)

253 Posted by: Nova Local at August 25, 2025 11:56 AM (tOcjL)

O.K. Thanks for the info.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2025 11:59 AM (2GCMq)

254 I have never attended Mass at a large city church in Denver or any other major "blue" city or What is feminist religious art?
Posted by: FenelonSp

In Sodom-on-the-Platte?

Here's an example:

https://tinyurl.com/57yvze76

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 25, 2025 11:59 AM (d5mfT)

255 @235

>>Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?

Several times, barely survived the last time, swore off Tequila and loose woman of questionable moral turpitude as a result.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 25, 2025 11:59 AM (YmH4X)

256
somewhere during the Obama administration, corporate America became convinced that women hate color and detail (and left-wing women loudly agreed). Hence all of the monochromatic line-art logos replacing well-loved ones, and the absolute hell you have to go through to buy a new car that isn't black, white, or gray.
Posted by: Ian S.

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Where are you getting this? WAZE is an app that was specifically designed for women, and hence is pastel and cuddly-wuddly with curvey-wurveys. I'm sure I could think of more.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 25, 2025 12:00 PM (cPNCv)

257 255 @235

>>Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?

Several times, barely survived the last time, swore off Tequila and loose woman of questionable moral turpitude as a result.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 25, 2025 11:59 AM (YmH4X)

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Tim Burton butchered Sam Hamm's original script by not including this!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

258 From kid-focused bright colors and playrooms to the dull greys of boring middle-age.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

There was a time when McDonald's used to match the decor of each store with a local-community theme. For example, a city near where I grew up had the headquarters of the local Potawatomi Indian tribe. So the McDonald's there had was decorated with Indian stuff. It was pretty cool. This was in the 80s. Now they're all just bland wi-fi hotspots that serve burgers.

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 12:00 PM (77rzZ)

259 I've always been told the old people smell is usually due to the detergent they use on their laundry.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

260 The closest I will get to a crackbarrel is driving past it to get to the Chic-fil-A

Posted by: Eromero at August 25, 2025 12:00 PM (LHPAg)

261 Dorco has worked for me.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 25, 2025 11:57 AM

Iirc, Dollar Shave Club uses Dorco.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 25, 2025 12:00 PM (ySpAZ)

262 From the comments back during the Gillette discussion posts years ago, someone had recommended Dorco Pace 6 Pro. I have been using that ever since.

Prior to that, I had switched from decades-long use of Gillette to Dollar Shave Club and another company I can't remember the name. But when both those companies went woke during the BLM Summer of George, I had to find a different brand. Dorco has worked for me.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 25, 2025 11:57 AM (P5BPp)

I've had a Merkur safety razor for 10+ years now. Very good quality.

Of course, I don't shave much now that I have gone full beard, but it worked very well(and still works on rare occasions I use it)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 12:01 PM (N1tpc)

263 250
‘ That last one standing was the Quaker Oats white guy.’

That’s a guy? I thought that was Barbara Bush.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 25, 2025 12:01 PM (jbnUc)

264 Somewhere the Uncle Ben's rice guy and the Cracker Barrel guy are having coffee while playing checkers and Aunt Jemimah is laughing at both of the old coots.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 25, 2025 11:53 AM (2WIwB)

The Island of Orphaned Mascots. Would make a neat little animated video.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 12:02 PM (ZO20Q)

265 263 250
‘ That last one standing was the Quaker Oats white guy.’

That’s a guy? I thought that was Barbara Bush.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 25, 2025 12:01 PM (jbnUc)

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Can't both be right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

266 Can we adopt Chipotle? Went there this weekend - do they give you an enormous value of healthy food for your money. I got 2 meals out of $11 - steak bowl with rice, black beans, pinto beans, double veg (peppers and onions), double salsa (pico and tomatillo), and lettuce - thing could barely hold the cover on, and it was tasty.

I used to like Chipotle a lot, but around 2013 two things happened:

1) The illegals they hired to handle the food started killing customers by getting their poop on the food
2) They discontinued pork because of global warming

I haven't been back to one since.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 12:02 PM (2ocoG)

267
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

You asked for it..........

https://youtu.be/ulOLYnOthIw

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

268 The Mach 3 formula was perfection. Barbasol is the only brand that seems to have successfully copied it.
Posted by: Caiwyn at August 25, 2025 11:39 AM (yHxqC)

The Gillette Sensor. I really hate that it's Gillette but it is wet shave perfection. Broke down about a month ago and bought two 10 packs at the local CVS. F-ing $30. Probably last me two years or so. I was using blades I bought on clearance in 2008, when CVS bought Longs Drugs, for $2 a 12 pack.

Posted by: Reforger at August 25, 2025 12:03 PM (e81a+)

269 My family operated a Cafe for years. Was the place to eat in St. Helena.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 12:03 PM (dxWFK)

270 I've never been to Cracker Barrel but I certainly can understand that the clientele goes there for cost-friendly dining and the decor is familiar and also user-friendly, gives them a feeling like they are eating home cooking.

so now I "get" the furor

and speaking as an artist/graphic designer, the new logo is hot garbage

Posted by: kallisto at August 25, 2025 12:03 PM (dCxaZ)

271 somewhere during the Obama administration, corporate America became convinced that women hate color and detail

it's the Millennial design sense! we joke about "millennial gray" for a reason

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 25, 2025 12:03 PM (Pv3Rg)

272 I like Luby's a lot but it's too expensive for me because I like to get two proteins and maybe an extra side. I guess I just need to adopt better portion control.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 12:04 PM (EYmYM)

273 and speaking as an artist/graphic designer, the new logo is hot garbage

it's just so boring

looks like any other "new logo" - flat and lifeless

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 25, 2025 12:04 PM (Pv3Rg)

274 The Island of Orphaned Mascots. Would make a neat little animated video.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 12:02 PM (ZO20Q)

With the lucky charms leprechaun coming in with a misfit elf and Yukon Cornelius, promising that the jolly marketing elf will find them all new homes.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 25, 2025 12:04 PM (N1tpc)

275 ‘ That last one standing was the Quaker Oats white guy.’

That’s a guy? I thought that was Barbara Bush.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Dr. Rachel Levine

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 12:04 PM (77rzZ)

276 I'm late but I'm hearing they somehow changed the rules of the peg game!!??!

what is that about?

we still have plenty of the old peg games from Cracker Barrel around the house

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 25, 2025 12:05 PM (Pv3Rg)

277 I've always been told the old people smell is usually due to the detergent they use on their laundry.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
_________

Buddy got a summer job with National Linen Company for the summer in college. Said he had images of falling backwards into fluffy clean sheets. But it instead involved taking the soiled clothes from old folks homes and putting them in a giant vat.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 25, 2025 12:05 PM (XvL8K)

278 271
‘ somewhere during the Obama administration, corporate America became convinced that women hate color and detail’

This seems like the opposite of accurate.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 25, 2025 12:05 PM (jbnUc)

279 it's the Millennial design sense! we joke about "millennial gray" for a reason
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Awful lot of cars painted Navy gray these days. I don't get it.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 25, 2025 12:05 PM (c711F)

280 Where are you getting this? WAZE is an app that was specifically designed for women, and hence is pastel and cuddly-wuddly with curvey-wurveys. I'm sure I could think of more.

Pastel is the key. Saturated colors are "problematic". Curves are fine, as long as they're simple curves.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 12:05 PM (2ocoG)

281 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 25, 2025 11:59 AM (d5mfT)

Thanks
I see a picture of a dopey, left wing Lutheran pastor who's not a RC. I didn't see the art, but I don't really want to look at a statue from "purity rings" made into some ugly art.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2025 12:06 PM (2GCMq)

282 Pretty soon, all logos for all products will just be black-on-white Helvetica lettering that says "GAY SEX"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 25, 2025 12:06 PM (d5mfT)

283 So I got a headline saying Trump is threatening ABC and CBS because he doesn't like the way they portray the news ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 25, 2025 12:06 PM (VE6XX)

284 I used to like Chipotle a lot, but around 2013 two things happened:

1) The illegals they hired to handle the food started killing customers by getting their poop on the food
2) They discontinued pork because of global warming

I haven't been back to one since.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 12:02 PM (2ocoG)

I just started going recently (really hadn't gone til kids started college and there was one on campus and they sold the value and freshness to me) - Trump handled #1 (it was an all GMU college student worker line this weekend, even at an off campus site)...and they had carnitas which are pork, so I guess #2 is also gone, or did they have another pork item?

Posted by: Nova Local at August 25, 2025 12:06 PM (tOcjL)

285 I did not have Tim Burton Batman quotes on my bingo card for the thread, but hey, it's the HQ.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 25, 2025 12:06 PM (OUMaO)

286 265, 275
😄

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 25, 2025 12:06 PM (jbnUc)

287 it's the Millennial design sense! we joke about "millennial gray" for a reason
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 25, 2025 12:03 PM (Pv3Rg)

My entire house is millennial gray. Outside and inside. I like it but I like that simple color layout before it became a thing.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 12:06 PM (EYmYM)

288 The closest I will get to a crackbarrel is driving past it to get to the Chic-fil-A
Posted by: Eromero

I won't go to Chic-Fil-A, ever since that dude pulled his shoe-shining stunt. Idiot.

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 12:06 PM (77rzZ)

289 This seems like the opposite of accurate.

I agree, but I'm also over 29 and apparently it's true of Millennial women in particular. HGTV went all-in on it - they're just now allowing gray-green and gray-blue and other very tentative colors again.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 12:07 PM (2ocoG)

290 There was a time when McDonald's used to match the decor of each store with a local-community theme.

There was one on I-80 on the way to Tahoe owned by Jim Otto. All silver and black inside!

Posted by: t-bird at August 25, 2025 12:08 PM (KoMOq)

291 I won't go to Chic-Fil-A, ever since that dude pulled his shoe-shining stunt. Idiot.

Shoe shining stunt?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 25, 2025 12:08 PM (/HDaX)

292 Dr. Rachel Levine
Posted by: Bulg
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Admiral Levine

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2025 12:09 PM (XeU6L)

293 Millennials need a neutral color scheme to complement their monotonous, dull-gray conformist personalities.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 25, 2025 12:10 PM (d5mfT)

294
Shoe shining stunt?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 25, 2025 12:08 PM (/HDaX)

During the BLM bullshit, he said white people should be washing black people's feet or shining their shoes or some shit.

Wife and daughter still go there, but I usually don't.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

295 289
‘ I agree, but I'm also over 29 and apparently it's true of Millennial women in particular.’

I didn’t realize that. It appears that my strategy of ignoring all things Millennial is starting to pay dividends.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 25, 2025 12:10 PM (jbnUc)

296 My cars and bikes have always been black. Just my preference for some reason .

Though I like to paint in bolder colors I like to stay under the radar with values of black and gray in my personal items ,including clothing.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 12:11 PM (EYmYM)

297 Dylan Mulvaney is pretty damn disturbing, I must say.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 12:11 PM (Zz0t1)

298 Pretty soon, all logos for all products will just be black-on-white Helvetica lettering that says "GAY SEX"

Like the "generic" branded canned food in the 80s.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 12:11 PM (2ocoG)

299 Shoe shining stunt?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 25, 2025 12:08 PM (/HDaX)

During the BLM bullshit, he said white people should be washing black people's feet or shining their shoes or some shit.

Wife and daughter still go there, but I usually don't.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)
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I think he made an odiously creepy advertisement that had white people (including white cops) washing the feet of filthy criminals. It made me retch.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

300 During the BLM bullshit, he said white people should be washing black people's feet or shining their shoes or some shit.

Ah, got it. I remember Chik-Fil-A being on my shit list for pretending to be a proper Christian business but I'd forgotten some of the details.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 25, 2025 12:11 PM (/HDaX)

301
That last one standing was the Quaker Oats white guy.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 11:58 AM (9GN4U)
_________________________________

Allow me to introduce you to the good Dr. Washington W. Sheffield who invented tubed toothpaste in 1850, and still sports a snappy suit while displaying his big white face on every sale.

https://tinyurl.com/5ch4v928

Posted by: Orson at August 25, 2025 12:11 PM (dIske)

302 298 Pretty soon, all logos for all products will just be black-on-white Helvetica lettering that says "GAY SEX"

Like the "generic" branded canned food in the 80s.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 12:11 PM (2ocoG)

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If you put on the special sunglasses, you see that they already say this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

303
Like the "generic" branded canned food in the 80s.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 12:11 PM (2ocoG)

B * E * E * R

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)

304 What do folks think about the theory that they're deliberately tanking Cracker Barrel brand as a way to buy the real estate cheap?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 25, 2025 12:12 PM (xcxpd)

305 it's the Millennial design sense! we joke about "millennial gray" for a reason

eleven years ago when I bought my house I had all the wallpaper stripped, and for some unknown reason I chose S-W Popular Grey and a couple other low-key shades. I had no idea I was riding the Millenial Gray wave.

It's time for a refresh, most of the grey will be replaced by a
creamy light buttery yellow

Posted by: kallisto at August 25, 2025 12:13 PM (dCxaZ)

306 My family operated a Cafe for years. Was the place to eat in St. Helena.
Posted by: Ben Had
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May I ask the name of the cafe?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2025 12:13 PM (XeU6L)

307 Shoe shining stunt?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent

Yeah, he put out some ad where he was shining some black guy's shoes, and said other white people should do the same.

I guess he was trying to get out the hole he had dug with the wokesters for his anti-homo talk.

I used to walk past the black guys who ran a shoe-shine place in Union Station every work day. They always seemed to having a blast. And many of their customers were black guys. So, Cathy's shtick was just dumb and offensive.

Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 12:13 PM (77rzZ)

308 300 During the BLM bullshit, he said white people should be washing black people's feet or shining their shoes or some shit.

Ah, got it. I remember Chik-Fil-A being on my shit list for pretending to be a proper Christian business but I'd forgotten some of the details.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 25, 2025 12:11 PM (/HDaX)

Yep, haven't been back since.

Of course the low carb diet also made them a tougher sell for me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 25, 2025 12:13 PM (xcxpd)

309 What do folks think about the theory that they're deliberately tanking Cracker Barrel brand as a way to buy the real estate cheap?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 25, 2025 12:12 PM (xcxpd)

I thought everyone did it the California and Hawaii way and burned everything to the ground.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)

310 Pretty soon, all logos for all products will just be black-on-white Helvetica lettering that says "GAY SEX"

Ah. I see you've watched "TV" over the past few years...

Posted by: man at August 25, 2025 12:14 PM (tubbA)

311 288 The closest I will get to a crackbarrel is driving past it to get to the Chic-fil-A
Posted by: Eromero

I won't go to Chic-Fil-A, ever since that dude pulled his shoe-shining stunt. Idiot.
Posted by: Bulg at August 25, 2025 12:06 PM (77rzZ)
I don't know about shoeshining, but I know the place is clean, closed on Sunday, kids don't dress like prostitutes, and the food is good.

Posted by: Eromero at August 25, 2025 12:14 PM (LHPAg)

312 302
‘ If you put on the special sunglasses, you see that they already say this.’

I’m not putting those on.

Posted by: Keith David at August 25, 2025 12:15 PM (jbnUc)

313 >Though I like to paint in bolder colors I like to stay under the radar with values of black and gray in my personal items ,including clothing.

Posted by: polynikes
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Me too!
Let's start a club.
I Iive in grayscale.

Posted by: Don Black at August 25, 2025 12:15 PM (AOsQT)

314 Have they sent the Maryland man to Uganda yet ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 25, 2025 12:15 PM (VE6XX)

315 312 302
‘ If you put on the special sunglasses, you see that they already say this.’

I’m not putting those on.
Posted by: Keith David at August 25, 2025 12:15 PM (jbnUc)

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Put on the fucking sunglasses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

316 An article I saw mentioned new dinner items they're adding. Not really country cooking but kinda sorta "country" adjacent.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 25, 2025 11:37 AM

Yes, Cracker Barrel recently updated their menu as part of their "All the More" campaign, launched on August 19, 2025. The new fall menu includes both new dishes and returning favorites across breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks, and desserts. Key additions include:

Breakfast:
Uncle Herschel’s Favorite: A returning fan-favorite with two eggs, choice of Sugar Cured Ham, Country Ham, Grilled or Fried Catfish Fillet, Crispy Tender Dippers, or a new premium New York Strip Steak upgrade, served with Hashbrown Casserole or Fried Apples, Buttermilk Biscuits, Sawmill Gravy, and Grits.
Sausage & Egg Hashbrown Casserole, Bacon & Egg Hashbrown Casserole, Butter Pecan French Toast Bake

Lunch and Dinner:
Herb Roasted Chicken, Hashbrown Casserole Shepherd’s Pie, Slow-Braised Pot Roast

Drinks and Desserts:
Butter Pecan Sticky Buns, Cinnamon Roll Skillet, Brown Sugar Latte, Wild Berry Tea

Grok: https://bit.ly/3JQxNLx

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 25, 2025 12:15 PM (P5BPp)

317 I think he made an odiously creepy advertisement that had white people (including white cops) washing the feet of filthy criminals. It made me retch.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

It's a Jesus thing.

Lots of Christians have taken the messages of the Gospel and turned them into political statements about giving in to every phony org that pretends to be helping the downtrodden.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2025 12:15 PM (dGCAG)

318 273 and speaking as an artist/graphic designer, the new logo is hot garbage

it's just so boring

looks like any other "new logo" - flat and lifeless
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 25, 2025 12:04 PM (Pv3Rg)

See also Games Workshop and their Warhammer logo remake.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 25, 2025 12:16 PM (xcxpd)

319 What do folks think about the theory that they're deliberately tanking Cracker Barrel brand as a way to buy the real estate cheap?
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There's not a *mechanism* to ensure that those doing the tanking get compensated by those later buying it cheap. And "no", those doing the tanking wouldn't be those doing the buying--that's simply bad economics. Its like saying I'm going to torch my uninsured home so that I can buy the real estate cheap. You already own it. There's no incentive to destroy it, and no means to buy back what you already own.

Posted by: Crusader at August 25, 2025 12:16 PM (TN0g+)

320 312 302
‘ If you put on the special sunglasses, you see that they already say this.’

I’m not putting those on.
Posted by: Keith David at August 25, 2025 12:15 PM (jbnUc)

So that's what happened to Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: Polka will never die at August 25, 2025 12:16 PM (5xvZ1)

321 Uganda man > Maryland man

Posted by: wth at August 25, 2025 12:16 PM (v0R5T)

322 It's time for a refresh, most of the grey will be replaced by a
creamy light buttery yellow
Posted by: kallisto at August 25, 2025 12:13 PM (dCxaZ

Just start chain smoking in there. Less effort, and cigarettes are probably cheaper than paint these days.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 25, 2025 12:16 PM (d5mfT)

323 314 Have they sent the Maryland man to Uganda yet ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 25, 2025 12:15 PM (VE6XX)

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He is currently being detained.

The earliest they can ship him off is 4pm on Wednesday because of the 72 hour clock (that doesn't include weekends) that started from Xinis' order requiring 3 days' notice of deportation to a third party country.

There are a few filings going on, but everything looks like it'll just happen 4pm Wednesday.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

324 Awful lot of cars painted Navy gray these days. I don't get it.
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Son has to drive a gray or black car for work. He's a PI and his vehicle has to be nondescript. A gold Chevy Camaro wont cut it.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 25, 2025 12:16 PM (RifVr)

325 What do folks think about the theory that they're deliberately tanking Cracker Barrel brand as a way to buy the real estate cheap?

Pretty sure they already own/operate. It's not a franchise.

Posted by: man at August 25, 2025 12:17 PM (tubbA)

326 looks like any other "new logo" - flat and lifeless
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 25, 2025 12:04 PM (Pv3Rg)

I'm not a graphic artist, and even I find it incredibly boring as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 25, 2025 12:17 PM (2GCMq)

327 > What do folks think about the theory that they're deliberately tanking Cracker Barrel brand as a way to buy the real estate cheap?
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Not me. They think what They are doing is right. Out with the old, etc.

Posted by: Don Black at August 25, 2025 12:17 PM (AOsQT)

328 Like the "generic" branded canned food in the 80s.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 12:11 PM (2ocoG)
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One of my favorite scenes in 'Repo Man'. Estevez reaches into his parents fridge, pulls out an already open can and eats out of it. The label is that blue generic type and says 'Food'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2025 12:17 PM (XeU6L)

329 What do folks think about the theory that they're deliberately tanking Cracker Barrel brand as a way to buy the real estate cheap?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 25, 2025 12:12 PM (xcxpd)

And to whom do they intend to resell the real estate for a huge profit?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 12:17 PM (ZO20Q)

330 All restaurants cost too much. Does everyone have infinite money?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 25, 2025 12:17 PM (63Dwl)

331
Son has to drive a gray or black car for work. He's a PI and his vehicle has to be nondescript. A gold Chevy Camaro wont cut it.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 25, 2025 12:16 PM (RifVr)

Just waiting for someone to paint "Unmarked Cop Car" on the side.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

332 B * E * E * R

Foster's...

(just as generic)

Posted by: man at August 25, 2025 12:18 PM (tubbA)

333 ‘ If you put on the special sunglasses, you see that they already say this.’
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I’m not putting those on.
Posted by: Keith David at August 25, 2025 12:15 PM (jbnUc)

Put on the F'n glasses, Timmy.

Posted by: Jimmy Valmer at August 25, 2025 12:18 PM (dGCAG)

334 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 25, 2025 12:15 PM (P5BPp)

I'm going to give their new menu a try in a few weeks.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 12:18 PM (EYmYM)

335 Cracker Barrel Menu | Homestyle Food For The Family

...

Southern Kids Menu

Huh?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 25, 2025 12:18 PM (NFX2v)

336 I think dropping the Maryland Father in Uganda is one of Trump's funnier trolls.

Though I don't think it's a great idea to send large numbers of MS-13. They'd likely just take over Uganda and be in the UN.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 25, 2025 12:19 PM (d5mfT)

337 and speaking as an artist/graphic designer, the new logo is hot garbage

it's just so boring

looks like any other "new logo" - flat and lifeless
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 25, 2025 12:04 PM (Pv3Rg)

See also Games Workshop and their Warhammer logo remake.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 25, 2025 12:16 PM (xcxpd)
______

Making logos simple and "flat" is designed to make them easier to see and recognize on phone apps and small screens. So I can see why a company that had a detailed logo -- like the old CB -- might want to at least have a simpler logo for apps. But as I said above, the new CB logo is ugly and boring and barely a logo at all.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

338 IIRC, there was a picture of a flyer featuring a fundraiser for Al Gore For Senate, hosted by David Duke. That picture was on Instapundit. Anyone else remember this?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 25, 2025 12:19 PM (ud2Gk)

339 Mike Hammer, The Valley Cafe. St.Helena, CA. They also had a bar 'The Pastime' right down the street

Posted by: Ben Had at August 25, 2025 12:19 PM (dxWFK)

340 336 I think dropping the Maryland Father in Uganda is one of Trump's funnier trolls.

Though I don't think it's a great idea to send large numbers of MS-13. They'd likely just take over Uganda and be in the UN.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 25, 2025 12:19 PM (d5mfT)

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Garcia turned down an offer to be sent to Costa Rica.

Dude is either fucking stupid or his lawyers are committing malpractice.

Could be both.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

341 I quit Cracker Barrel when they stopped serving chicken livers.

--

Mr. Black was heartsick over this.

We were fairly regular customers at Cracker Barrel, even though we fully acknowledge it's gone downhill significantly in the last few years. Dirty restaurants (don't look at the windows, floors or blinds unless you want to lose your appetite) and the food has taken a big downturn.

This woke crap is the final straw. And they were on thin ice with us anyway after the Pride rockers. We will never go there again. Period.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 25, 2025 12:19 PM (qBdHI)

342 329 What do folks think about the theory that they're deliberately tanking Cracker Barrel brand as a way to buy the real estate cheap?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 25, 2025 12:12 PM (xcxpd)

And to whom do they intend to resell the real estate for a huge profit?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 12:17 PM (ZO20Q)

I'm guessing one of the big VC firms, Vanguard or Blackrock. All that interstate-adjacent real estate snapped up cheap if Cracker Barrel goes into chapter 11.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 25, 2025 12:20 PM (xcxpd)

343 We're getting a Chic fil A here in the Kingston NY area soon. Glad to hear it. I'm sure the leftist idiots in this area will protest.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 12:20 PM (9GN4U)

344 to whom do they intend to resell the real estate"

That's part of the problem - costs/square foot for these places are insane.

Wait, did I say "costs"? It's "taxes". Brutal.

Posted by: man at August 25, 2025 12:20 PM (tubbA)

345
Garcia turned down an offer to be sent to Costa Rica.

Dude is either fucking stupid or his lawyers are committing malpractice.

Could be both.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

I think he had to admit guilty to trafficking and was to go to jail there ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 25, 2025 12:20 PM (VE6XX)

346 But Mamdani cannot bring himself to denounce the murder of Jewish women and children — and Democrat leaders can’t bring themselves to denounce him either.

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Marxist Commie Mondami 2028 -- A Jewish Genocide in Every Plot!

Posted by: ShainS -- Black Lives Don't Matter Now That Trump Is Saving Them In DC at August 25, 2025 12:21 PM (3goEG)

347 He's a PI and his vehicle has to be nondescript.

So, an old beater like Robin Masters' Ferrari?

Posted by: t-bird at August 25, 2025 12:21 PM (KoMOq)

348 191 They removed the southern grandpa iconography. But it's not just the logo. It's the systematic erasure of the old country aesthetic from the restaurant entirely. They're remodeling the interiors of restaurants into a bland Millennial White aesthetic because the AWFL CEO thinks anything old and southern is racist.

ok now I get it

it is much bigger than the logo

the South is one of the few regions in this nation that has any flava left...why not just homogenize the shit out of it like every other farking thing has been flattened out
Posted by: kallisto at August 25, 2025 11:45 AM (dCxaZ)

They did it to tv in the 70s now it time for everything else.

Posted by: Arnold the pig at August 25, 2025 12:21 PM (OA79/)

349 336
‘ They'd likely just take over Uganda and be in the UN.’

Or just piss off the Ugandans and end ‘up escaping’ into the jungle.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 25, 2025 12:21 PM (jbnUc)

350 336 I think dropping the Maryland Father in Uganda is one of Trump's funnier trolls.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

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It gave us Mamdani.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 25, 2025 12:21 PM (NFX2v)

351 330 All restaurants cost too much. Does everyone have infinite money?

tell me about it I just went apartment shopping with my kid and the roommate.

how in the HELL are people paying these rents?!!?

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 25, 2025 12:22 PM (Pv3Rg)

352 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 25, 2025 12:22 PM (Zz0t1)

353 309 What do folks think about the theory that they're deliberately tanking Cracker Barrel brand as a way to buy the real estate cheap?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 25, 2025 12:12 PM (xcxpd)
_______________________

That's an over complicated view. What really happened is that Cracker Barrel was showing a slow decline before bringing in the new CEO. The Covid nonsense hit during her arrival, and a number of Board Members left. The CEO's response was to increase the number of Board members to 11 people, and the new Board Members brought in after the CEO's arrival were almost all women and minorities.

My guess is that the CEO isn't a fan of Americana, and wanted to put her mark on the product so convincing the Board to go along with her idiotic plans was rather easy. It's sort of like Hollywood staff writers ruining a perfectly good script so as to show their worth and contribution.

Posted by: Orson at August 25, 2025 12:22 PM (dIske)

354 I'm guessing one of the big VC firms, Vanguard or Blackrock. All that interstate-adjacent real estate snapped up cheap if Cracker Barrel goes into chapter 11.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 25, 2025 12:20 PM (xcxpd)

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They're going to build Indian restaurants for all the OTR CDL Truck Drivers ...

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Black Lives Don't Matter Now That Trump Is Saving Them In DC at August 25, 2025 12:22 PM (3goEG)

355 We're getting a Chic fil A here in the Kingston NY area soon. Glad to hear it. I'm sure the leftist idiots in this area will protest.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 12:20 PM (9GN4U)

I worked at the Kingston Mall managing a CVS.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 12:23 PM (EYmYM)

356 I'd be more interested in Demon Hunter K-Pop ... as in demons hunting K-Pop stars. You know, the reverse of the actual movie.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

I haven't seen it, but I'm told (spoilers) that is in the movie and they're the antagonists.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 25, 2025 12:23 PM (a+4eV)

357 The original McD's in my town had a bomb shelter disguised as a subterrainian freezer area. I watched them dig it over one summer as a kid. Place had a style to it. 18" thick walls. Built like a fortress. Added to over the years so the original building was totally hidden inside.
Wasn't really set up for drive through though and was recently replaced with a bland 2 lane mostrosity.
And they replaced the original sign that had the "billions served" number.

Posted by: Reforger at August 25, 2025 12:23 PM (e81a+)

358 345 I think he had to admit guilty to trafficking and was to go to jail there ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 25, 2025 12:20 PM (VE6XX)

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Seems to be the case.

He's not stayin' in the US. He can either end up in Uganda a free man or Costa Rica in prison.

He'd have probably been better off in prison in El Salvador.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 25, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

359 What do folks think about the theory that they're deliberately tanking Cracker Barrel brand as a way to buy the real estate cheap?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 25, 2025 12:12 PM (xcxpd)

And to whom do they intend to resell the real estate for a huge profit?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 12:17 PM (ZO20Q)

I'm guessing one of the big VC firms, Vanguard or Blackrock. All that interstate-adjacent real estate snapped up cheap if Cracker Barrel goes into chapter 11.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 25, 2025 12:20 PM (xcxpd)
______

I'm sure a lot of CB's locations are on leased property. If it goes to Chapter 11 and eventually liquidated, the properties it owns will be put up for auction. Anyone can bid.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

360 The Mamdanites (via Change dot org) are probably behind the petition for the Indian driver too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 25, 2025 12:24 PM (NFX2v)

361 The CEO's response was to increase the number of Board members to 11 people, and the new Board Members brought in after the CEO's arrival were almost all women and minorities.

-----------------

Isn't it time to change the name to Cracker Sterile?

Posted by: ShainS -- Black Lives Don't Matter Now That Trump Is Saving Them In DC at August 25, 2025 12:25 PM (3goEG)

362 Making logos simple and "flat" is designed to make them easier to see and recognize on phone apps and small screens.

Which is funny because phone screens got high-DPI faster than most of these rebrands happened.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 25, 2025 12:26 PM (2ocoG)

363
Have they sent the Maryland man to Uganda yet ?
Posted by: It's me donna

================

I wonder if any compassionate, forward-leaning journalists will be tracking him. Those third countries are mumbling soothingly that the deportees are being "overseen" by "proper authorities," heh. No one seems to know whether they're being detained or under supervised release.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 25, 2025 12:27 PM (cPNCv)

364 The days of starting in the mailroom and working your way up to CEO are over, now they're all 'contract' CEOs that jump from company to company getting small short term gains and leaving trails of long-term insolvency behind them.

It's the latest crap in corporations hiring contract CEOs that have not previously worked for the company, have zero loyalty to the company, and have zero idea what the company's customers want.

They just regurgitate the shit that they learned at their far-left business schools:

'Hire consultants' (because you're too stupid and disconnected to have any idea what the brand's customers want, and you don't consume the product your company makes)
'Rebrand to simplicity' (eliminate any actual uniqueness and make it generic modernslop)
'Expand your customer base' (by pushing DEI crap that has never expanded anything anywhere ever)
'Objections are just a vocal minority' (who cares if the customers object by the time the business craters your contract is over anyway)

Posted by: DudeAbiding at August 25, 2025 12:27 PM (setIA)

365 The destruction of CB is deliberate. Most of those restaurants are on highly visible and accessible locations and somebody wants them. Destroy the company and get those valuable assets at fire-sale prices and Bob's your uncle.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at August 25, 2025 12:28 PM (V362x)

366 @355 the Chic Fil A will be in that area. Not much left of the Hudson Valley Mall

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 12:29 PM (9GN4U)

367 Edwards gave me my favorite political quote when he said, in response to a reporter's question at a live news conference if the allegations against him would get him out of the governors office, "The only way they will get me out of office is to catch me in bed with a young man or a dead woman, next question." Only in Louisiana.

Posted by: MacRadDoc at August 25, 2025 12:30 PM (+OjEW)

368 The Mamdanites (via Change dot org) are probably behind the petition for the Indian driver too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 25, 2025 12:24 PM (NFX2v)

ICE should be tasked with vetting all the names on the petitions for immigration status. And then deport any illegals so found.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 12:30 PM (ZO20Q)

369 Somewhere the Uncle Ben's rice guy and the Cracker Barrel guy are having coffee while playing checkers and Aunt Jemimah is laughing at both of the old coots.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 25, 2025 11:53 AM

Don't forget the Land O' Lakes Native American woman.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 25, 2025 12:34 PM (P5BPp)

370 The diner scene from 5 Easy Pieces. The actress who played the waitress was terrific.

https://tinyurl.com/453c3uzj

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 25, 2025 12:35 PM (5xuJ/)

371 Somewhere the Uncle Ben's rice guy and the Cracker Barrel guy are having coffee while playing checkers and Aunt Jemimah is laughing at both of the old coots.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 25, 2025 11:53 AM

Don't forget the Land O' Lakes Native American woman.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 25, 2025 12:34 PM

Not to mention Cleveland's Chief Wahoo and Washington's John Two Guns White Calf.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 25, 2025 12:37 PM (P5BPp)

372 Clearing the sock.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 25, 2025 12:42 PM (dGCAG)

373 ...and they had carnitas which are pork, so I guess #2 is also gone, or did they have another pork item?

Posted by: Nova Local at August 25, 2025 12:06 PM

Grok:

Chipotle did not discontinue pork due to global warming. They temporarily suspended serving carnitas (pork) in about 600 stores in 2015 after a routine audit found a major supplier failed to meet their animal welfare standards, specifically regarding antibiotics and humane treatment. This caused a shortfall in responsibly raised pork, leading to the temporary removal.

Carnitas have since been reinstated in most locations. There’s no evidence linking the decision directly to global warming, though Chipotle has noted in SEC filings that climate change could impact ingredient availability and prices, like avocados, beef, and pork, due to weather volatility.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 25, 2025 12:47 PM (P5BPp)

374 I think he made an odiously creepy advertisement that had white people (including white cops) washing the feet of filthy criminals. It made me retch.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 25, 2025 12:11 PM

Via Grok:

In June 2020, during a roundtable discussion at Passion City Church in Atlanta, Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy spoke about addressing racial injustice. He referenced a story about a young man shining an older Black man's shoes as an act of humility and conviction against racism.

Cathy then shined the shoes of Lecrae, a Black Christian rapper, during the event, framing it as a symbolic gesture of contrition for racial injustices. He said, “I invite folks to put some words to action here, and if we need to find somebody who needs to have their shoes shined, we need to just go right on over and shine their shoes,” emphasizing humility and action.

Some interpreted this as Cathy suggesting all white people should shine Black people’s shoes to atone for racism, leading to backlash, particularly among conservative commentators in 2023 when the video resurfaced amid criticism of Chick-fil-A’s DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 25, 2025 12:51 PM (P5BPp)

375 Somewhere the Uncle Ben's rice guy and the Cracker Barrel guy are having coffee while playing checkers and Aunt Jemimah is laughing at both of the old coots.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 25, 2025 11:53 AM

Don't forget the Land O' Lakes Native American woman.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 25, 2025 12:34 PM

Not to mention Cleveland's Chief Wahoo and Washington's John Two Guns White Calf.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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Aunt Jemima. Even her relatives (the image was based on a real person) objected.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 25, 2025 01:01 PM (XeU6L)

376 even before the changing logo fiasco my last trip to Cracker Barrel was to celebrate my pastor's birthday around 20 July. we had to wait 45 minutes for a table for 5 on a Sunday afternoon at 3:30 after the church families went home
then as we sat down we were talking for another 30 minutes before the excellent service began from a kind lady who got us our food quickly. this terrible experience had soured me from wanting to return. they should work on THAT and not spitting in the face of the public

Posted by: paulnjax at August 25, 2025 01:30 PM (yuHnF)

377 Don’t leave that middle name out, people will get the wrong idea

Posted by: Dead Howard S at August 25, 2025 02:04 PM (YZhRl)

378 The Cracker Barrel CEO has also declared that people from high income areas should pay more for their meals than people from low income areas. This creature is a deep dyed hard left pseudo aristocrat.

Posted by: Beverly at August 25, 2025 04:01 PM (Epeb0)

379 Bring Back Aunt Jimima in her Head Scarf, Bring Back the Land of Lakes Indian Maiden, Bring Back the Cleavland Indian Bring Back the Washington Redskins and stop this P.C. Nonsense

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 25, 2025 05:34 PM (wGqjj)

380 Sadly, Cracker Barrel's biggest offense has been crappy food and burnt coffee for the past 30 years.

Posted by: EGGO at August 25, 2025 06:15 PM (L+7CN)

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