How funny that @Dutchess III asked about that restaurant because I had been thinking for a couple days how to phrase this question about Cracker Barrel. I know almost nothing about the restaurant. I have been there twice, and both times was less than impressed. My mother and sister both love it and they are both less than informed conservatives who literally get angry any time I show them hard numbers and facts that disprove something regarding either their political views or their religion, which is pentecostal/baptist. My sister LOST HER MIND when I told her that the KKK used the bible to justify slavery. She had never heard such a thing (she’s 50) and actually left the room to prevent herself from hearing me.
So that’s my impression of the type of people who go to CB a lot. I could be wrong. But when I put together the name and the idea of a bunch of ignorant crackers all gathered together I laughed like a loon.
I understand that there are several possible definitions of the word “cracker”, but the one that I’ve grown up with was a poor, under-educated, ignorant hick.
So in the wake of my esteemed Jellie and her question regarding one portion of the color/racist spectrum, I wondered if the person who started CB was sitting around thinking of a theme for a restaurant and thought he’d give all them thar hicks a place to feel at home and cough up the cash while snickering to himself the whole time because they don’t realize the joke is on them. Like it’s literally a barrel full of Crackers. (Ok, it’s not a barrel, but still…)
Ya recon?

Topics: racism, derogatory terms, grits, two for one, country cooking, homminy, 'Murica