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1 posted on 01/02/2026 9:59:05 AM PST by Red Badger
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It’s called “Private Equity” where people with money buy up restaurant brands and chains, then simplify and cheapen the menu to make more money from people who are loyal customers. They can ride the inertia for 3 or 4 years then liquidate the company in bankruptcy and come out ahead on the investment. It’s a crappy system but it works for the people who have the money when the restaurant chain runs out.


2 posted on 01/02/2026 10:04:16 AM PST by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words? )
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Idiots.


3 posted on 01/02/2026 10:04:44 AM PST by yldstrk
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That’s Catfish and collards and black-eyes. And cornbread. And iced tea.


4 posted on 01/02/2026 10:04:49 AM PST by waterhill (This world is not my home, I'm just passin' through, you gotta come up to The House.)
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I lived in Georgia for four years, and hadn’t heard of this, but why bother changing this when black eyed peas are so inexpensive, for one day per year?


5 posted on 01/02/2026 10:06:07 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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This is a delicious and very different blackeye pea recipe, and very good for New Year’s Day:

https://saramoulton.com/2013/12/black-eyed-pea-cakes-with-salsa-mayonnaise/


6 posted on 01/02/2026 10:07:23 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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There will be another. Buccees.

I don’t really care. I like to cook my own food.


7 posted on 01/02/2026 10:07:54 AM PST by waterhill (This world is not my home, I'm just passin' through, you gotta come up to The House.)
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Did they replace the woke female CEO with the ridiculous hipster glasses and the double-barreled surname?


13 posted on 01/02/2026 10:14:13 AM PST by PGR88
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Unreal..... freakin unreal.


14 posted on 01/02/2026 10:14:27 AM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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I whompped up a mess of blacked eyed peas with corn pone yesterday for just in case.


16 posted on 01/02/2026 10:15:44 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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I just hope they kept pork and sauerkraut on the Jan 1 menu…


23 posted on 01/02/2026 10:19:58 AM PST by NittanyLion
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......Cracker Barrel has quietly stopped serving black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day, a Southern dish that, according to legend, brings good fortune in the new year.....

Our New Year’s Day custom is different—Pork and Sauerkraut! But we do it at home.

Cracker Barrel should continue to honor Southern New Year’s Day customs! Phooey!


27 posted on 01/02/2026 10:22:48 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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The message for Cracker Barrel seems to be “never change anything”. They must be wildly popular just as they are.


28 posted on 01/02/2026 10:24:18 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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Went into Publix on Wednesday... even before I got to the usual bakery items just inside the front door, I saw a table chock full of black-eyed pea bags.


29 posted on 01/02/2026 10:26:01 AM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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“Enraged”???

Total clickbait


32 posted on 01/02/2026 10:29:51 AM PST by BB62
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The company is now facing yet another brewing PR crisis. Over the years, Cracker Barrel has quietly stopped serving black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day, a Southern dish that, according to legend, brings good fortune in the new year.

Those people are idiots. If they want to know how to present their store is simple. Ask your customers what they like. Do not decide what they like. Go to a biker bar and aside for a request of scantily clad young nubile waitresses they will give pretty good advice. They also want cheaper beer.

My above two paragraphs would have saved Cracker Barrel millions of dollars that were lost due to woke idiocy.

33 posted on 01/02/2026 10:34:12 AM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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CB NEEDS to fire all their woke PR advisors immediately- Hire some old time common sense PR agents, and FIX the mess they are in now because some snot nosed woke college grad-like PR decided to be PC


36 posted on 01/02/2026 10:35:58 AM PST by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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They promised to undo the changes, but they have not done so. Their once-great pancakes now suck.


49 posted on 01/02/2026 10:49:35 AM PST by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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You can make hummus out of black eyed peas.


55 posted on 01/02/2026 11:03:15 AM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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Aw Geez, now its the doggone peas. Order something else and shut up or eat elsewhere.


56 posted on 01/02/2026 11:07:12 AM PST by dforest
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Don’t gripe, that only hurts you, the griper. Just don’t go there, that hurts the Leftists.


57 posted on 01/02/2026 11:09:41 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....I voted for this too!)
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