My wife and I were just having a conversation about this at a Cracker Barrel a couple days ago, driving home from a road trip.
Politics and aging demographics aside, I just like the food. I usually get the grilled catfish, and I always order the turnip greens and pinto beans as my sides. That’s what I got this last time, and it was delicious as always. I couldn’t get a meal like that on the road at any other middlebrow chain restaurant that I can think of.
If and when Cracker Barrel fades from existence, or maybe worse yet, if it changes its menu to cater to Gen Z tastes, I will miss my catfish, turnip greens and pinto beans.
I’m on a road trip at the moment and noticed a couple of things. One is that the new logo looks like the Golden Corral. I saw saw the GC sign a few times and thought it was CB’s updated logo. Another thing is that CB’s old logo is pretty hard to read from a distance. It basically looks like a bunch of squiggles until you get close. For that reason alone it should have been redone to be clearer.
"If the last few days have shown us anything, it’s how deeply people care about Cracker Barrel,” the company said Monday in a post on its website. “You’ve also shown us that we could’ve done a better job sharing who we are and who we’ll always be.”
That is what is really typical of Trump. As soon a company, corporation, group etc, makes a decision, Trump “weights in” and tries to pass his “effort” as if he was the reason or the mover.
Since the King pronounced his edict, the company backtracked.
Nobody’s asking me, but I think if they kept the ‘upside down speech balloon’ they could still drop the man & barrel and remain iconic. But they dropped everything that could have hinted at their origins and left what looks like old cheese. (Cheese & crackers association, perhaps?)
I’m late to the party, but what was so wrong about the old man leaning on the barrel? Unlike Aunt Jemima, the Land-o-Lakes Indian woman, Cleveland Indians giant-teeth guy or Washington R—— NFL logo, he didn’t seem that bad.
