Posted on 03/01/2005 7:21:34 AM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak
Brooklyn has yanked the welcome mat out from under Southern food chain Cracker Barrel Old Country Store due to accusations of discrimination.
Borough President Marty Markowitz, who invited the company to check out Brooklyn, dropped his Southern hospitality following outrage among black and gay leaders over a history of discrimination claims against the chain.
"I do not believe they are ready for Brooklyn," Markowitz said yesterday.
"It is our greatest source of pride that Brooklyn's diversity of races, faiths and ethnicities is unrivaled anywhere in the world, and any company that is interested in doing business in Brooklyn must respect and celebrate diversity. We have no plans to meet with Cracker Barrel."
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This is the same crap the minorities pulled on Hardees. It's such a bogus claim that I've found it hard to believe even a liberal judge would give the case more than five minutes of his/her time.
Translation: "We're proud so many homosexuals live in Brooklyn."
He probably just invited Cracker Barrel up there so he'd have an excuse to give them a high-profile scolding for their "bigotry."
It's probably the name...they don't want "some cracker" providing jobs to Brooklyn minorities. ;)
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Their loss.
Amazing. Our local Cracker Barrel has a black manager, and there are always some black customers in there.
They serve southern food and hospitality. My opinion is that brooklyn is practicing a form of discrimination of their own - against southerners.
Prejudice toward southerners is a still accepted practice of discrimination among enlightened northern liberals.
Maybe they're concerned about the obesity epidemic. I'm very fond of Cracker Barrel, but you can't get anything there that isn't fattening.
Boy, you got that right - one of the most pleasant places with some of the best food. When my northern friends and relatives visit, they won't miss going to Cracker Barrel. It's a "must". New York has its own deeply-entrenched brand of bigotry, though, and missing out on this is part of the price they pay for it.
I think that Cracker Barrel is overpriced and overhyped. But then again, I can get good southern cooking anywhere around here so maybe I'm just spoiled.
Brooklyn's loss
Why on earth would "Cracker" ever want to go to Brooklyn???
There aren't any in California, either.
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Anyone who wonders why New York City has: 1) the highest cost of retail products and services in the nation; and 2) an unemployment rate that is consistently 2-3 points above the national average should stop wondering.
The link is dead.
Yup. They must not have paid Jesse off.
Lordy, Lordy, Lordy! The best lima beans with country ham on this planet.
Sure you can. Husband has ordered a fish dish the last two times we've been there, and he loved it both times. I wish I could remember what it was called. I even liked it. (I'm not much for eating fish at chain restaurants.)
Brooklyn, home of teachers whose class assignments are to write derogatory antiwar letters to soldiers overseas.
I'll have grandpa's old fashioned country breakfast.
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