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Cracker Barrel Is Under Fire for Its "Racist" Name
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| 04/09/2023
| Gina Vaynshteyn
Posted on 04/10/2023 8:53:05 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The comfort food-style restaurant chain Cracker Barrel, known for its overwhelming amount of ornamental knick-knacks and vintage signs plastered on the walls, is in some social media trouble today. Folks on the internet are claiming Cracker Barrel is racist.
According to Southern Living, “cracker-barrel” was coined in 1916 because of barrels containing soda crackers — a popular item for sale at country stores. Customers at said country stores would hang around the barrels as a kind of ritual (kind of like the trope of employees gossiping near the water cooler). The first Cracker Barrel location opened in 1969 in Lebanon, Tenn., and it derived its name from the cracker-barrel community experience back in the day.
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This crap will never end
To: ChicagoConservative27
White Castle is racist and classist.
To: ChicagoConservative27
So, they change their name to Honkey Barrel..................
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posted on
04/10/2023 8:54:49 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: ChicagoConservative27
what about the NAACP? How is that not targeted? It’s only blacks and called ‘colored people’.
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posted on
04/10/2023 8:55:44 AM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: ChicagoConservative27
They should change the name to Sambo’s. It is up for grabs.
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posted on
04/10/2023 8:55:47 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
To: ChicagoConservative27
This one doesn’t even make sense. Cracker is supposed to be a derogatory term against whites. So now, these fools on Twitter are outraged on behalf of whites? Huh?
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posted on
04/10/2023 8:56:19 AM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: ChicagoConservative27
This is the low IQ journalism of mainstream media in America
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posted on
04/10/2023 8:56:46 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Dr. Sivana
They have a place down here in South Carolina called Sambo’s and it’s owned and run by a black guy.
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posted on
04/10/2023 8:57:08 AM PDT
by
struggle
To: Beowulf9
NAACP
Black and Missing
Ebony Alert
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posted on
04/10/2023 8:57:11 AM PDT
by
Semper Vigilantis
(DEI: Divide, Entrap, Imprison? Depraved, Evil, Idiot? Drugs, Extortion, Insanity?)
To: NohSpinZone
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posted on
04/10/2023 8:57:40 AM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/10/2023 8:57:46 AM PDT
by
Kriggerel
("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Yeah, because "cracker" is a racist term invented by black racists.
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posted on
04/10/2023 8:57:53 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
That large numbers of people aren’t marching in the streets over this outrage seems to be a rather niggardly response....
To: ChicagoConservative27
It’s pronounced cracka barrel.
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posted on
04/10/2023 8:58:23 AM PDT
by
Leep
(Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Who is it supposed to be racist towards?
BTW I am thinking of opening a breakfast restaurant under the name 'Buckwheat pancakes'.....
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posted on
04/10/2023 8:58:24 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: ChicagoConservative27
Who’s complaining? And who doesn’t know what a freaking saltine was originally called?
I mean... when you walk in there to feed it’s full of crackers right?
Let’s call it Hardtack Barrel!
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posted on
04/10/2023 8:58:57 AM PDT
by
Clutch Martin
("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
To: ChicagoConservative27
Nut jobs with too much time on their hands.
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posted on
04/10/2023 8:59:05 AM PDT
by
Texas resident
(Who is running our country?)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Since blacks use “cracker” as a derogatory toward whites, let’s rename it to “Jig Barrel”....
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posted on
04/10/2023 8:59:13 AM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
To: struggle
They have a place down here in South Carolina called Sambo’s and it’s owned and run by a black guy.
Good for him. I would patronize his place.
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posted on
04/10/2023 8:59:49 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
To: ChicagoConservative27
Folks on the internet are claiming Cracker Barrel is racistYeah--probably 10 of them.
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