Thread 21557259

What do you think about the Old Country Store?

Because this new controversial costly logo rebrand has removed "Cracker guy" and the "Barrel" leaving the only "Cracker Barrel" text present.

nobody even cared about cracker barrel before it was going out of business regardless. now this happens and suddenly everyone cares. it worked i guess.

>>21557259 (OP)
I dont get it. Why is everyone talking about some random restaurant? Who died this time? Or what bullshit is going on now?

Cracker Barrel is good as hell and the new interior decorations and menu will make it go the way of the shitter just like IHop

>>21557273
when did being a conspiracy schizo become mainstream?

>>21557392
it's always been mainstream. People just never vocalized it until they realized everyone else was also insane.

>>21557392
2017

>>21557392
Since around Trump round 2. A bunch of luddites and schizos got some power which normalized it.

Shan't be eating there anymore. Even if you can overlook the terrible new design, "revamped menu" is always code for "prices up, quality down"

>>21557259 (OP)
I can't wait for the Boomers to all die off so this outrage over the dumbest shit goes away,.

>>21557259 (OP)
Today, the actual agenda is revealed. Their board of directions has the largest marking firm for DEI as major stockholder and board decision maker. There is in fact an agenda other than a simple logo change.

I think my parents stopped eating for a while about 3 years ago, their when they no longer had red-eye-gravy for the ham slice for my Dad, who was especially bent out of shape. How difficult is it to deglaze a pan with coffee.

>>21557259 (OP)
Whole lotta people suddenly claiming to care about a restaurant they’ve literally never been inside of.

The chicken and dumplings there are so fucking good, I can never make dumplings like that mm mmmm

>>21557421
Found it. He's the majority stockholder.
>Gilbert R. Dávila, age 61, first became one of our directors in July 2020. Since 2010, Mr. Dávila has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of DMI Consulting—a leading multicultural marketing, diversity & inclusion and strategy firm in the United States. Additionally, since 2018 he has served as a founding partner for Oppside, LLC, a research and analytics company. From 2003 until he founded DMI Consulting in 2010, Mr. Dávila served as the Vice President of Global Diversity and Multicultural Market Development at The Walt Disney Company.

>>21557431
>Multicultural Market Development at The Walt Disney Company
Holy shit lmaoooo

>>21557433
Exactly.

New interior has some mickey Ds style booths.
>https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/entertainment/a65881024/cracker-barrels-new-interior-fans-furious/

WHY DID YOU FIRE BRADS WIFE??!?

Johnny Rockets should abandon their 50's diner kitsch next so RETVRN freaks pretend to be mad about that too.

>>21557452
>people are only pretending to be mad about the dissolution of cultural identity in any space jews can weasel into

>>21557259 (OP)
>What do you think about the Old Country Store?
Its menu was the same homecooked meals I grew up with which I didn't like or found boring along with the rest of my family so I rarely went there. Last time I was there it was the mid 2000's. We only went there because some boomers from Georgia were in town and they preferred it.

Their new logo seems pretty plain and generic for a major chain. Reminds me of a cheap logo from the 50's to the 70's. Even if they were getting rid of the man and barrel they could have made it look nicer. I guess it is more fitting now. Bland logo for a restaurant serving bland slop.

>>21557426
I care about my niece does that count?

>>21557523
If your cultural identity is corporate slop designed to sell you cheap souvenirs you deserve to have it ruined.

>>21557295
Boomers do, which is hilariously who this sort of thing pisses of the most. Hope to see them out of business soon.

>>21557392
>when did being a conspiracy schizo become mainstream?
when it became profitable thanks to retards being able to access the internet on their phones. The internet has been ruined by allowing rural boomers and third worlders to broadcast their retardation.

>>21557259 (OP)
Used to be real good until they started playing it safe, cooking less in house from scratch, started using instant or cheap ingredients, played to every possible allergy or medical condition that doesnt even let them use salt in their food, and the store got gimmicky(er)

>>21557259 (OP)
>What do you think about manufactured outrage for drunks on twitter
I think having literally any opinion about it is a strong indication that someone's a fucking drug addict.

>>21557523
>cultural identity
>cracker barrel
Retard

>>21557523
>being this much of a 43-year-old alcoholic
lmfao you got skullfucked by twitter "redpill" influencers

>>21557410
Guess we’re not going to be hearing about Epstien anymore after those faggots spend 6 years ranting and raving about it.

>>21557523
is it true that americans

>>21557259 (OP)
>logo rebrand has removed "Cracker guy" and the "Barrel" leaving the only "Cracker Barrel" text present
That part isn't really all that new though. In Idaho we have some of their "It's 8am somewhere" billboards, like this one in pic related, where they had already dropped the barrel and the guy, and they've been around for a few years.

>>21557273
>they came for cracker barrel
>billions must die

>>21557273
>I want the little peg game
Huh?

>>21557837
Why post in the thread if you know nothing about the subject, retarded frogposter?

surprised it took so long, having a white person associated with 'cracker' is offensive to white people.

>>21557452
honestly their aesthetic pisses me off now. They cant prey on people's nostalgia and then charge 20-30% more than other places for worse food.

>>21557837
Little triangle board full of little pegs with one slot open, you jump one peg over another and then remove it. The goal is to have only one left. It's not all that fun or interesting, basically just exists to try to keep kids quiet but never really worked.

>>21557910
Spoken like someone too dumb to leave 1 tee left.

>>21557259 (OP)
I love Cracker Barrel, pre-cooked frozen meals are the best! I would gladly pay $14 for them to reheat some of their delicious Country Fried Pork Chops!

>>21557929
Quite the ig nor a moose

I can literally solve it blindfolded. Just do the same motion every time and it's solved.

>>21557929
It loses all entertainment value when you win once, which tends to happen the first time you're there waiting 30 minutes to have your order taken and 45 minutes after that for your subpar pancakes to arrive. As a kid I would have rather been given something to read, some good classical American novels would fit the sort of aesthetic they always pretended at and some good Mark Twain, maybe The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in its classic version, would have been perfect.

>>21557392
you call them a schizo... but are they wrong?
I don't think doing this to cracker barrel is a liberal thing, I think it's more of a globo homo homogenization that turns everything with character into a sterile environment.

>>21557910
its effectively solitaire, its not exactly meant to be fun for long its a pass time game that you are always able to win if you plan ahead, while solitaire could be unwinnable from the get go if you purely play it traditionally.

>>21557416
everything you love right now will be corrupted into something you hate if you live more than 20 years, this cycle will never end.

>>21557934
Start with the hole in a different spot
>>21558036
Correct. Millennials really need to see the writing on the wall now that were being marketed to hard with nostalgia bait. Zoomers, youre next.

>>21558023
>but are they wrong?
yes

>>21558051
>different spot

Why? I solved the problem. So every time I go there I do it and everyone oohs and ahhs and you burn 15 seconds.

>>21557259 (OP)
I haven't been there in almost a decade
I really don't care

Do people still literally unironically actually go to Cracker Barrel?

I'm a city folk, I expect my food to be from a diner owned by a lovely Greek Couple who named all the sandwiches after a neighborhood-friendly theme.
I've never been in a Cracker Barrel, I think Gavin Newsom having a take on it is ridiculous, he's also a city folk, and from California, by the time Cracker Barrel was even scratching the LA exurbs and Central Valley he was already broken up with Kimberly Guilfoyle and the former San Francisco Mayor.

>all this fuss over a restaurant that lives by freeway onramps
What's the next big culture war magnet, fuckin Chilis?

>>21558212
waffle house

>>21557259 (OP)
food used to be a lot better pre covid. never eating there again after the remodel. this is all a scheme to crash the stock

>>21558188
Well not after this

>>21558307
so youre saying buy in?

>>21557259 (OP)
that place sucked ass so it doesn't affect me either way

>>21557273
rightoid boomers telling on themselves, they think goyslop reheated by latino immigrants to be "white culture"

>>21557523
>>21558379

>>21557392
i don't know but a couple of my friends have turned into them. I don't mind it because some of the more esoteric shit is fun to discuss, but chemtrails and flat earth and weather control and trannies get annoying to hear about after a while.
i also learn they do next to NO research on anything and believe shit they see on facebook reels. you debunk them and they act like you're using the safe garbage sources of info they are, when my sources are a combination of wikipedia, government or university scientific sources, and what i believe are reputable news sources (usually a combination of a few). they call proper education and truth seeking brainwashing, and get hung up on semantics during arguments
of course we talk about other shit too because we're friends but the schizo shit i usually ignore because there's literally no arguing with them. they're so fixated on defeating other arguments that you will be agreeing with them on some things and they'll think you're still arguing.

and its becoming more common. i've met a few girls who were flat earthers but can't elaborate on a single facet of their beliefs

>>21558307
jew ceo crashing stock for fellow jew vulture capitalist buy in

>>21557392
>>21558403
the collapse in trust in institutions because they are genuinely shady now has caused people to hard whiplash the other way and reject everything they say no matter how reasonable it is.

>>21558412
yeah we can thank fauci and big pharma for that; i think COVID was a massive catalyst for the rise of schizos (on both sides).
I guess the OG schizos and conspiracy theorists were at least intelligent regarded the way they curated and presented their information; the nu-schizo just posts a crispy JPEG and calls you a tranny or a fed if you don't blindly take it at face value

>>21558411
Well anon since it seems you have some i side knowledge why not get in on it yourself? I trust you have invested all your money since you're so confident the value is going to go back up.

>>21558428
>posts a crispy JPEG
or some ai slop youtube short

I'm a fan of the Cracker Barrel aesthetics but they have, without a doubt, the worst hot chocolate I've ever ordered. I've ordered it at multiple locations and it was the same everytime.
I swear to you it was just hot brown water with a generous amount of whipped cream on top.
The first time you receive it you're nonplussed and think there must be some kind of mistake or it's just a failure of the individual restaurant but by the third time you've ordered it you realize there's something terribly wrong with Cracker Barrel as a whole.

why can't rightoids ever, ever, EVER have a meltie over something that actually matters? there are dozens of actual, real, pressing issues to have a meltie over but they consistently make it over the dumbest shit like did a chain restaurant change their logo or did a tranny drink beer, the earth is on fire and we're rapidly spiraling into a literal scifi horror dystopia and all you idiots can think about is schizoposting twitter screencaps

even when you manage to make it sound like something that would matter like pedo ping pong pizza whatever, it's a full blown delusion, epstein island is fully documented and there's plenty of people who testified under oath about mass rapes of kids but nah let's worry about whether a gay library book penguin is trying to trans the kids that's the REAL issue

>>21558536
>the earth is on fire
No it's not. You're just as bad. You read headlines and listen to other left leaning people parrot that statement, but you have no understanding of what climate change is.

Go look at the almanac for your city, and check the 10 year trend.

Also check'em

>>21558559
Well at least you're serving as a good illustration of the average field programmable mouth breather. Run along now and screech about another consumer product going woke by slightly adjusting the logo or packaging, that's what really matters.

>>21557389
Basically Cracker Barrel got a new Jewish CEO, and she's changing the logo, menu, and interior decorating. Shills want you to focus on the logo, but really what everyone is mad about is the shitification going on inside the store.

Basically menu dropped items, store inside is now going to be sterile corpo-slop interior that can quickly be sold to another corpo-slop business if it fails, and of course they are dropping the cracker from the logo because Generic Logo is the hallmark of corpo-slop.

CB is gonna die no matter what, boomers die off, and it's too bland of food for zoomers to go. I mean the mash is literally just potato, no butter, no salt, no pepper. It's sad. No actual improvements are being made, it's just being dumbed down and having anything "whyte" removed from it.

>>21557426
I've been plenty of times, my parents and grand parents couldn't cook for shit, so I often went there when visiting relatives. It's wasn't great food mind you, but it was edible and they had shit that was interesting to kids in the store and out front.

No nostalgia for it though - food is WAY too bland. Sourdough toast is the only good thing I can say about them.

>>21557837
GTFO the thread, you clearly have no fucking clue what is actually inside a cracker barrel if you don't know diddly squat about the little triangular peg board game at all the tables. Which is GONE now!

>>21558403
>i believe are reputable news sources
Oooh, that is a sign of a true midwit. Absolutely NO news sources are ever accurate when it comes to science. Half the time they don't even bother to read the fucking abstract of the paper, and 100% of the time they have the wrong conclusion from whatever paper they are citing. Especially food, news on food is always shilling first, science last.

Not saying the chemtrail lowwits are right, just saying you aren't any better for citing shit improperly. Please don't fall into the "I love science" group think trap where uneducated communications majors fumble science around to pretend they are smart.

And just because a uni spits out a paper, doesn't make that paper right. We've got a real nasty replication problem on our hands with modern science, and that's even if the thing is statistically relevant. Too many shills trying to shill products/politics or nab grant money by pretending they have the next room temp super conductor (spoiler: they don't), and midwits like you fall for it every fucking time.

>>21558134
they see who is investing, and they are seeing a globohomo sterilization of identity, Isee nothing really wrong with what they are saying.

last I remember several trillion dollars worldwide was tossed at the modern audience and diversity and so far nothing has come of it, blackrock is the leader of this, as large as that sounds, its still close to acceptable losses for them.

and before you say something is wrong, I am just taking what they said at face value, I care very little about this one way or the other.

>>21558428
COVID of course was a massive expose on how corrupt our medical industry was, but it's not the first, it's a member of a long parade of authorities & corporations being bozos and evil assholes - from the AMA declaring masculinity to be toxic (a political stance, not a scientific one) to all the fake papers people are able to get published for sciences, the system has been fully exposed as a shill mill for the well connected and wealthy. And it's been this way since the beginning. People still believe fat is bad for you because of assholes doing bad science - the real culprit was sugar, but the sugar lobby won that fight, so fat got the bad rap. Which drove all the low fat options (with high sugar) that made us all obese landwhales. Money won, science lost. And the more you look back, the more you see greed beating actual science over and over - cigarettes, leaded gas, teflon, etc. So many stories of "safe" things really being known as terrible early on, shit is covered up, and whoops - the whole population got fucked, sorry.

Recently a comedian has a VERY good point: "You believe in no conspiracies? That is a VERY strong stance to take. You think the government won't lie to you? I'm a dad, and I am in charge of ONE person. Just one. And I lie to that little [bleep] all the time". Funny, but he does have a point: being a no-conspiracy believer in the face of massive evidence piles of MANY REAL CONSPIRACIES makes you dumber than a child. Dumber than those lowwits who think the world is flat. Because even a child eventually realizes Santa Claus and the tooth fairy are made up lies grown ups tell. At least those flat earthers know not to trust shit. Your dumb ass is over here drinking the leaded gasoline and injecting forever chemicals into your blood because someone told you they were safe.

>>21557273
of course it's (((BlackRock))). Every single time

>>21558616
leaded gas was fantastic for engines, and at least as long as you weren't face first in it, the immediate downsides were... worth the trade off till years later.

>>21558706
blackrock or vanguard because how many times can you trace moneyed interests back to them, together they hold roughly 11-12% of ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD thought their investments. they have their fingers in damn near everything, and they get seats on boards where they put their people largely pushing their messaging. they could lose 5 elon and a few bezoses and just call it market fluctuations. if they want to push a narrative that destroys a multi billion dollar business, it is literally a rounding error to them

and even if you dont want to go a dei/left agenda, it seems everything they directly touch goes to shit.

so you notice something goes to shit, you see a blackrock on the board and find out they own 20% of the company, and are the largest single investor.

>>21558727
>so you notice something goes to shit, you see a blackrock on the board and find out they own 20% of the company, and are the largest single investor.
Yoy just stated they're 20% of lots of things, including successful businesses. It's like finding out a failing business is incorporated in America and concluding America must be destroying businesses.

>>21558536
I don't care about brown people

>>21558616
>made us all obese landwhales
Speak for yourself.

>>21558740
thing is they aren't pushing agendas in their successful ones, the ones where they haven't completely gone to shit, they don't have board members, and the ones where they do, they are effectively too big to fail style businesses such as microsoft. every policy they have is horrible but the fuck you going to do about it? ot is an industry where dei effectively is unable to infiltrate wont work those positions, see their quarter of a trillion in energy they have invested.

a few companies that are 10-100 million dollar companies, fucking push the message and maybe limp along or loose all investment and guarantee death.

cracker barrel is worth 1.21 billion dollars and at its peak was worth just under 5 billion, personally I think this isn't agenda based changes, it could be a happy byproduct but this is more or less a move to sterilize the image of the company, which I think will alienate existing customers, and not draw in a new crowd, effectively this is a 'the modern audience is real, if we just change enough they will come' style decision they seem to love to push for

>>21557259 (OP)
I dont care about logos or the shit on the walls or the shitty cast iron and Elvis cds in the store. Why can I get a turkey dinner every day a Bob Evans, but only on Thirsdays at canker barrel?

>>21558212
>What's the next big culture war magnet, fuckin Chilis?
RETVRN TO BABY BACK BABY BACK BABY BACK CHILI'S BABY BACK RIBS
(BARBECVE SAVCE)
>not pictured: marble statue of Caesar with the face smeared in cheap barbecue sauce

>>21558356
Might actually be a good idea to buy the dip so you can sell and cash out when they do a groveling turn around, have stock jump up for a month as fags tout it as a victory in the culture war, and shortly after begin their own sell off taking advantage of the free stock bumps.

>>21557392
Some Protocols released in Eastern Europe by Tsarist Feds a century or so ago.

>>21557259 (OP)
>What do you think about the Old Country Store?
I started going there about 2 years ago, and their prices have gotten outlandish. Aside from that I still like it.

I enjoy the dark cozy atmosphere, the real kerosene lamps on the table. It feels like im on vacation, in a tourist trap every time I go in there, which is a nice feeling that brings me back to childhood. And remember ive only really been eating there a couple years, my grandmother has stories of eating there on vacation 50 years ago.

I got hooked on the ok food and the good atmosphere. If the interior looked like a dennys, It wouldnt have hooked me.
I dont think a bright dennys interior is going to hook zoomers either. I just dont understand what they are trying to accomplish. Alienate and ruin the one thing it has going for it, for an audience that will never accept them.

My mom had such a bad meal there a few months ago she refused to let me go there for my birthday meal, even though she insisted I could go anywhere I wanted. We had to go to fucking Cheap Charlie's all because my mom thought her food was mid a few weeks ago. Had the nastiest fajitas of my life. Fuck her I live over an hour ago and never get to go there maybe she should actually order something normal like the country fried steak and just enjoy the atmosphere and not be so fucking picky

>>21557259 (OP)
I wouldn't mind the rebrand if the "Cracker Barrel" left behind wasn't so bland and lifeless. They could've/should've kept the old font

Extremely EXTREMELY pathetic to give a shit about the logos of companies. Surest mark of a consoomer NPC.

Imagine getting genuinely angry because the faceless company founded in 1969 by a Shell executive to pump up gasoline sales, changed its corporate logo.

>>21557523
>cultural identity is a chain restaurant that's barely 50 years old
Lol

>>21558536
It's not like it will matter whenever the stars align and they actually do have a meltdown over something that matters, because their meltdowns are as worthless as the things they meltdown over, it's just a bunch of Facebook posting and the occasional public screeching

>>21558706
If you have a 401k or IRA or mutual fund of any kind, its in your best interest that blackrock stays successful

>>21559842
that's probably why the gop is trying to force everyone into 401ks, god forbid the wealthy pay their fare share nah gotta make the rest of us worry about stock prices when people with real money are all making backroom deals on executive order front running

>>21559851
Like I said if you have any form of retirement youre in the game too, they're in everything

>>21557392
It's true. Blackrock owns it.

>>21559859
Why do you hate capitalism you drugged up faggot communist?

>>21558727
>"I don't know what an asset manager is:" The post

>>21559975
The Red Scare only worked when there was an ample middle class with high quality of life and low cost of living, strong union jobs with pensions worth working for.

If you go back and actually read up on Red Scare tactics and the horrors of socialism/communism, its all shit thats already happened and is continuing to happen today.
Stifling and removal of free speech, fear of imprisonment and deportation for dissent.
The ruling class will slowly take away all wealth and private ownership, and you will be poorer and poorer every year. Large masses of people will be solely dependent on meager government handouts.
Its bad when government does it, good when blackrock does

From the one intelligent person on Zero Hedge

>>21557259 (OP)
AI post

>restaurant that was always cheap and disgusting gets worse
Cool
This is like complaining about Golden Corale. You fucking know what you signed up for you fat hick.

>>21558727
It's endlessly fascinating to me how you kids can't put two and two together because you can't comprehend the world without anthropomorphizing everything.

Blackrock is not a person. Ten percent is not a controlling interest. The reason you see large funds like them involved in businesses doing shitty things is because the system itself sucks. Infinite growth is a basic requirement of publicly traded companies.
Tell me: how does one keep growing infinitely in a finite world? How do you make profits go up when you've reached a revenue cap?
Answer: you cut to the bone and make things shitty until it collapses and you sell to a vulture firm

>>21562100
The expected 200 million dollar dip was a coincidence I swear!!!

>>21562118
>corale
Thirdie detected, opinion into the trash IMMEDIATELY

>>21558569
but USA is a capitalist country, why dont people just choose to eat their shit at another shitty restaurant? isnt it the lard of the freedom? whine about a closing restaurant is lame as fuck and represent why mrrica is a shitty country

>>21562205
Thirdies don't know what golden corral is
Fucking Americans that make more than 60k a year don't know what golden corral is
What you detected is a bad autocorrect

>>21562298
seethe more thirdie
every hue, bong, and chinaman on ck knows golden corral if not for this picture alone

>>21557452
Damn, I remember these guys back around the turn of the century. RIP. Now everything is homogenized into a few brands.

>>21558536
People universally disliked the shitty logo, retard. The only ones trying to make it a left-right issue are the shit eating """""""""""""journalists"""""""""""" who singled out the handful of mouthbreathers who claimed the new logo was "MUH WOOOOOOOOOOOOKE" in their articles. The majority of people, those who were the reason the dipshit MBA backpedaled and reneged on the logo change in the end, thought the new logo was SHIT period.

>>21557392
when most of the conspiracies turned out to be true

>>21557389
Because Cracker Barrel is a very traditional American restaurant decorated with lots of Americana and classic American memorabilia from a time everyone had paler complexions.

They wanted to basically get rid of all that and remove everything that made Cracker Barrel Cracker Barrel. Like a total soulless corporate rebranding and remodel so it looked every modern fast food restaurant. There was really no reason to do this, because that was one of the main reasons to go to Cracker Barrel so the entire identity of the brand so the motivation couldn't have been anything but (((cultural))).

>>21557452
Yeah let's attack and get rid of every single piece of American culture referencing the 1900's and pretend this isn't about hating white people.