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[–] 157 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I wish these people cared as much about the president being a pedophile as they do about this mid-ass restaurant changing its logo.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They need these distractions, otherwise they start to actually think. Their leaders can't have that happening.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    So it's a good thing CB is changing back

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I mean, this was obviously a manufactured distraction. something the conservative media riled up their knuckle dragging viewers to be upset about so they don't have up talk about Epstein files or the fascist takeover of government by the Republican party. They'll find another shiny thing for their base to jerk off to every week if that's what it takes to fill air time to avoid the absolute train wreck shit show that is America right now.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If it encourages them to eat there, is it really such a bad thing, I mean t a diet heavy in the types of food Cracker Barrel sells can't be good for you and republicans hate healthcare. Seems like it might be a self-solving problem.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Conservatives are fucking dumb

    EDIT: this stinks of Fox News outrage. Goes to show how their viewers are so easily led.

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  • [–] [S] 26 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I have moments where I think I’m surprised that something stupid matters to people, then I remember how stupid some people are. Thank goodness conservatives are such active participants in the things that matter most

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    how stupid

    There's that, and there is also a massive ecosystem of griftfluencers endlessly manufacturing outrage and pumping it straight into millions of anger addicts, every hour of every day, from Fox News at the top, all the way down to Uncle Jeff on Facebook. The need to get high short-circuits intelligence every time.

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  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Its not even political at all. It was just dumb corporate blandness that defeats the purpose of the restsurant's image. Conservatives made it political because their CEO happens to be a woman.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    McDonald’s and taco bells used to look so cool, now everything is corporate and bland and sterile. Chain Restaurants all look the same now

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    What happened to McDonald’s? Apart from maybe a slight font change, it’s the exact same thing from 70 years ago.

    Also, Burger King is an example of ditching a trendy look and going back to an older, more timeless logo.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    bro please talk about brands bro please

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    After a bunch of free advertising, what a shocker!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Are there people who would be likely to go to Cracker Barrel out there who didn't know about Cracker Barrel already?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Theres lots of people who have happy memories of being taken places by their parents or grandparents when they were a kid, they remember it fondly because they didnt know any better.

    Now the older generation are dying off and the people who went there as kids arent going either, the change to the logo would surely have legitimately annoyed some people because that logo is closely linked to their grandparents or something like that. Now its been forced back into their concious thoughts and they will go for the nostalgia... for a while at least.

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  • [–] 76 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Step 1: Get a terrible rebranding done

    Step 2: Wag the dog with fake/paid outrage

    Step 3: Reverse the decision letting people think they’ve won

    Step 4: Profit

    It’s New Coke all over again.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    honestly I thought it was this too

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The new logo is pretty terrible. I bet they paid a lot to some consulting company for it and when they saw how bad it was they wanted to at least try to get some benefit from it.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Goddamnit stop teaching conservative snowflakes that their annoying, incessant whining works sometimes!

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I said it in the last thread and I'll say it again here: I do not give a single flying fuck about any political motivation behind the changing nor changing back of the Cracker Barrel logo, either real or simply perceived, but their new logo was objectively terrible. It was so bland and unmemorable that whoever designed it should have their Macbook confiscated and be catapulted into the ocean. That is, the both of them. But preferably one each into different oceans. I don't know how much that braindead rebrand cost them in consultancy fees but I hope they can ask for a refund.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Bland logo? Not okay. Bland food? Totally fine.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    it's been a spell since I've been to the US but the only thing I remember about Cracker Barrel is the triangle/golf tee game they had at the tables. The food? I don't remember anything about the food or what I even ate. but that game? I was all over it.

    I actually preferred Bob Evans breakfasts. I remember as a kid whenever my family visited the states I would insist we go to Bob Evans for breakfast.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Put the old man back in, but add another man standing behind him with his hand on the first dude's shoulder. They'll flip their shit even harder.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    I guess it’s easy to win a culture war where you’re the only belligerent

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Old cracker put back in logo to appease old crackers."

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Conservatives are calling this a win? Really???

    Cracker Barrel: Changes logo.

    Me: Didn't even know this happened months ago. Thats how little I care.

    Conservatives: WE WILL FIGHT FOR A FICTIONAL OLD WHITE MAN'S RIGHT TO EXIST IN A LOGO!!!!

    Me: Still doesn't give a shit.

    Cracker Barrel: Changes logo back.

    Me: Still doesn't give a shit.

    Conservatives: WE WON!!!!

    Me: STILL doesn't give a shit. You're the winner of a game that no one wants to play.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    When you own all three branches of the government, have deported thousands of innocent, disenfranchised people, and you've got civil liberties and democracy on the ropes, but your whole shtick is grievance and vengeance, you get nonsense like this. They need more to things to get mad at to feed the monkey on their back.

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    [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    Imagine caring that much about a corporate logo. Weirdos.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    And everybody forgot about the Epstein files and we all lived happily ever after the end.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Good thing this "controversy" came along, I'd all but forgotten the place exists.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Republicans are sensitive snowflakes

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Whiny snowflakes got their way and now see that they can threaten more businesses to cater to their WEIRD ASS COMPLAINTS

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    🤣 another win for conservatives. I don't know why I even care anymore.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Isn't there a single entity with a spine in America?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I think I've eaten at a cracker barrel twice, both times were on a roadtrip and it was the most established place off an interstate exit, so purely convenience. I haven't the first clue what they even offer, I just assume it's all chicken fried and covered with gravy.

    That there are people out there absolutely losing their mind over the logo change is one of the most confusing things I've ever seen. Who. Fucking. Cares? Goddamn, the group that likes to call everyone else a snowflake, sure is the most infantile people on earth.

    That said, I'll avoid cracker barrel from here on. I really don't want to be near the sort of people who frequent that establishment. Kudos to them for so proudly self-identifying...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    All I know about Cracker Barrel is the company's history of racism, like this from 2004:

    More than 40 plaintiffs in 16 states alleged black people were denied service, assigned to segregated seating, subjected to racial slurs and served food taken from the trash. Also, about a dozen employees complained that blacks were segregated from white workers and generally received “back of the house” assignments such as cook and dishwasher.

    If I'd given it any thought, I might have assumed the company's shittiness was in the past, but this right-wing uproar over re-designed branding, with the frickin' President of the United States demanding they switch back to the old logo, and the company's quick acquiescence, convinces me Cracker Barrel is a restaurant for fascists.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    None of them actually care they just want to distract from Epstein.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I mean... A broken clock is right twice a day and all that

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Was this just conservatives? I never saw anyone say anything positive about the changes. Potential problems with some decor they might have, I don't think that reasonably translates to completely scrub it of all personality anyway.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago
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    A new logo wasn't going to change the fact it's a racist restaurant chain so it's fine by me of they keep the old logo, not like the new logo was going to get me to break my twenty plus year streak of avoiding this place.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Awww… the new one was so much cleaner and nicer.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This almost feels like a bet, or an experiment, by social media political manipulators. Like, one guy says to another, "I bet I can make Cracker Barrel change their logo back in less than two weeks using nothing more than a social media outage campaign." "Deal."

    And then they do it, with some carefully planted posts across many platforms, and some well-placed calls to conservative commentators, calling attention to those posts. They successfully demonstrate their social media manipulating prowess, and ultimately sell their wares for the upcoming election cycle.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Or more than likely a marketing stunt by Cracker Barrel. Announce a new logo to get everyone talking about you. Then backtrack to stay in the news a little longer. Plus now you don't need to spend any money on new logos. Boom you just got tons of free advertisement.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Cracker Barrel is on team TACO. I'm bigly surprised...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    They should increase the cost of of all of their products to cover the increased cost to print their existing logo. There's no way the newer one wasn't cheaper lol

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    What's the problem with the new logo?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Have you seen it? They took everything cracker barrels about out of the fucking sign. I'm not conservative by any means but even I think this is actually a win. The new sign was just sad

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm Canadian, so I don't get this cultural reference either. I see in the new one a barrel, presumably full of crackers 🤷

    Also, why would anyone store crackers in a barrel?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    MAGAts can be mighty proud they "goterdun".

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Corporate always chickens out

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  • ❄️❄️❄️ brr, it's cold in here.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Now this place sucks even more than it did before! God damn this whole thing is stupid.

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  • That's a bummer. I liked the new logo a lot.

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