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Cracker Barrel Goes Woke With LGBT Celebration Hidden Among the Rocking Chairs
Western Journal ^ | June 9, 2023 | Samantha Chang

Posted on 06/10/2023 4:20:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Cracker Barrel was castigated on social media for following in the bumbling footsteps of beleaguered woke corporations Target and Anheuser-Busch InBev by lionizing the LGBT agenda.

The uproar unfolded Thursday, shortly after the country-style restaurant and gift shop chain announced it was celebrating “Pride Month.”

To this end, Cracker Barrel changed its iconic storefront display of rocking chairs to showcase a rainbow-colored chair.

“We are excited to celebrate Pride Month with our employees and guests,” the Tennessee-based corporation wrote on Facebook. “Everyone is always welcome at our table (and our [rainbow] rocker). Happy Pride!”

While many of the responses to the post applauded the move, others expressed disappointment.

“One of my favorite places to eat. Not anymore. This is sad. I’ve always thought this was a family restaurant,” one woman posted, adding that it “makes me sick.”

Numerous Twitter users blasted the family-style restaurant chain for abandoning its roots to push a left-wing political agenda.

Will you eat at Cracker Barrel again? Yes No

Completing this poll entitles you to The Western Journal news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. “We take no pleasure in reporting that Cracker Barrel has fallen. A once family-friendly establishment has caved to the mob,” the Texas Family Project tweeted Thursday, sharing images from the country’s website celebrating its “LGBT Alliance” for “Bringing the Front Porch to Pride.”

Another exasperated commenter tweeted: “Evidently, Cracker Barrel has been under a rock and missed the whole Bud Light/Target debacle.”

One self-professed gay Twitter user slammed Cracker Barrel’s performative virtue-signaling.

“Just stop it,” he tweeted. “Please just do your job and cook good food and keep your virtue-flagging to yourself. You’re going to alienate the straights AND the gays.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: crackerbarrel; donatedonaldtrump; donatefreerepublic; donatetrump; homosexualagenda; lgbt; overthebarrel; woke
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1 posted on 06/10/2023 4:20:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Did they do anything for black history month?


2 posted on 06/10/2023 4:21:46 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: nickcarraway

I stopped eating there long ago. Their three basic food groups are sugar, salt and fat.


3 posted on 06/10/2023 4:24:14 PM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: LouAvul

Fat is good for you.


4 posted on 06/10/2023 4:25:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

For those doing the poll, its 94% no as of my posting.


5 posted on 06/10/2023 4:25:22 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: gundog

I have no problem if they do something for black history month, but Pride no.


6 posted on 06/10/2023 4:25:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Just wondering if they’d picked pride over blacks.


7 posted on 06/10/2023 4:28:23 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: nickcarraway
It's a shakedown operation
8 posted on 06/10/2023 4:28:43 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: nickcarraway

I wonder who pushes these things on these corporations.

I mean specifically how it works.

As an aside, last time I went to Cracker Barrel the waiter was flaming.


9 posted on 06/10/2023 4:29:11 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: nickcarraway

Gay flag on rocking chairs represents the Bi members because it goes back and forth.???


10 posted on 06/10/2023 4:30:19 PM PDT by dragonblustar (They have conquered Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony….. Revelation 12:11)
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To: gundog

Sadly, yes.


11 posted on 06/10/2023 4:32:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2023/06/09/cracker-barrel-has-fallen-folksy-southern-food-chain-becomes-latest-unlikely-target-of-anti-lgbtq-crusade/?sh=7a144f1a3665

In August 2022, the company stirred controversy after it introduced a plant-based sausage made by Impossible Foods to its menu. The company’s Facebook page was flooded with angry comments about the “woke” menu addition, though some praised the company for appealing to vegan customers. Cracker Barrel responded to the controversy on Instagram, posting a picture of an Impossible sausage and a pork sausage shaking hands. “Cracker Barrel: Where pork-based and plant-based sausage lovers can breakfast all day in harmony,” the caption reads.



12 posted on 06/10/2023 4:32:43 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: nickcarraway

Why did the trans go to the fruit market?

To find a pear……


13 posted on 06/10/2023 4:33:03 PM PDT by dragonblustar (They have conquered Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony….. Revelation 12:11)
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To: PeterPrinciple

As much as I think Impossible burgers are unhealthy, I guess restaurants can try to cater to different customers.


14 posted on 06/10/2023 4:42:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I guess restaurants can try to cater to different customers.


yes, that is the marketplace at work as well as this woke crap.

The market place still works.


15 posted on 06/10/2023 4:45:47 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ifinnegan

I wonder who pushes these things on these corporations.

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The short answer is the WEF. And New World Order conglomerations.

Trillionaires telling billionaires what to do. Or else.


16 posted on 06/10/2023 4:57:17 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( )
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Cracker Barrel Celebrates Pride Month, Turns Back on Tradition

06/09/2023 4:52:40 AM PDT · by spirited irish · 49 replies
Todd Starnes ^ | 9/23 | Todd Starnes

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4159534/posts

Cracker Barrel caves and celebrates “pride month”

06/08/2023 3:06:58 PM PDT · by Ennis85 · 94 replies
Facebook ^ | 8th June 2023 | Ennis85

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4159433/posts


17 posted on 06/10/2023 4:58:21 PM PDT by threefinger
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To: Responsibility2nd

I wonder who pushes these things on these corporations.

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The short answer is the WEF. And New World Order conglomerations.

Trillionaires telling billionaires what to do. Or else.


until we do some pushing our selves.


18 posted on 06/10/2023 4:58:21 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: nickcarraway
#6: "I have no problem if they do something for black history month, but Pride no."

Same here. Although in Cracker Barrel speak they refer to it as "Canadian History Month".

19 posted on 06/10/2023 4:58:33 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: nickcarraway

I suppose at some point businesses lose their connection to their customers. They don’t know them, they have rely on consultants to tell them, and of course the consultants don’t know them either.


20 posted on 06/10/2023 4:59:02 PM PDT by marron
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