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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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To: marron

They went after those five black cops in Tennessee, and said they were white supremacist.


21 posted on 06/10/2023 4:59:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: marron

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.
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And relying on a survey is the most stupid but it is easy.

The old fashioned talking to your customers still works.


22 posted on 06/10/2023 5:00:42 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

My friend here in TN has known the family well that started CB and they were collecting vintage stuff for decor. She is livid about this.


23 posted on 06/10/2023 5:04:26 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: nickcarraway

“I have no problem if they do something for black history month”

I’s have a big problem with it.


24 posted on 06/10/2023 5:05:15 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“Canadian history was part of the curriculum in my high school. But I was sick that day.”
~ Dame Edna


25 posted on 06/10/2023 5:13:50 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: nickcarraway

I call it Crap Bucket


26 posted on 06/10/2023 5:13:58 PM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: MayflowerMadam

CB has been proudly woke and gay since at least 2018. No one noticed until now?

I think I see the problem…


27 posted on 06/10/2023 5:18:39 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: nickcarraway

It used to be a pretty fun place to eat at. Oh well.


28 posted on 06/10/2023 5:24:37 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: nickcarraway

All I can say is there is nothing “gay” or celebratory about men and boys stuffing their peckers into each other’s oral and rectal cavities. How restaurants and corporations are given to make statements about those practices is, frankly, beyond alarming.


29 posted on 06/10/2023 5:28:05 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Seriously.)
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To: nickcarraway

Christian Crackas ain’t gonna be goin there no mo.


30 posted on 06/10/2023 5:33:53 PM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: Old Yeller

Boycott Caca Barrel. That garbage will make you fat fast...


31 posted on 06/10/2023 5:39:21 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: nickcarraway

there are plenty of “cracker barrels” all over the country

mom and pop storefronts that serve great food

stay local/stay unwoke

stop feeding the beast


32 posted on 06/10/2023 5:44:12 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: LouAvul

The 3 legs of the food triangle...


33 posted on 06/10/2023 5:51:26 PM PDT by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: nickcarraway

Like all the other woke companies, their stock is tanking. Boycotts work.


34 posted on 06/10/2023 6:05:56 PM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: nickcarraway

I can’t often go there, but it WAS one of my favorite places to eat. Maybe not so much anymore.


35 posted on 06/10/2023 6:30:53 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: ifinnegan
I wonder who pushes these things on these corporations.

Here's a link to a good explanation:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12129995/How-401k-savings-used-turn-biggest-brands-woke-revealed-ex-Anheuser-Busch-exec.html

36 posted on 06/10/2023 6:32:03 PM PDT by Schatze (It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.)
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To: nickcarraway

Which means their restaurant is probably diseased from all the faggotry


37 posted on 06/10/2023 6:55:58 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: nickcarraway

Well, this is one more business I will boycott!


38 posted on 06/10/2023 6:59:37 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: nickcarraway

I have no problem with gay people or people of other races. What I have an insurmountable problem with, however, is self-righteous companies (or people) trying to get inside my head. I simply refuse to do business with them.


39 posted on 06/10/2023 7:41:02 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: nickcarraway
Way to go Cracker Barrel.

Toodles, good luck, you are now a "woke" restaurant, and you are officially on your own.

So many excellent alternative choices happen to exist, and we Traditional American Values customers all know them.

40 posted on 06/10/2023 8:01:07 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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