Daily Dose of Doom Thread

[MU82]

Cracker Barrel should just placate the pearl-clutching snowflakes by putting a Confederate statue in front of every restaurant.

[JWags85]

The woke mob is after Cracker Barrel for changing their logo.  I have no idea why it's a big deal but the morons against good America are mad about it

Found out.  Guess they won't implement segregated seating

Its a perfect stupid internet argument lightning rod, but its really sort of an interesting business case.  A new CEO that thinks they need to ditch the "old way" that includes a logo that had an old white man and a vibe that was predominantly white focused seems like they have a problem with those things.  A foolish thing to get riled up over, unless you were a loyal multiple times a month Cracker Barrel customer (which I highly doubt most of the people complaining were), but at least its not an insane reach to see the ire, like some of this dumb crap is.

Regardless of how you feel about Cracker Barrel, the logo was iconic and so was the vibe of the stores/restaurants.  The rebrand is super sterile, the new logo sucks, the idea of what she wants/thinks a modernized Cracker Barrel could be seems detached from what the core Cracker Barrel consumer is.  Like if Arbys suddenly started pushing their new vegan menu.

That being said, Cracker Barrel was struggling on many metrics for awhile and something needed to be changed.  It's not like this was decided to F with something that was a wildly successful gangbusters cash cow as is.  Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Funny enough, at the risk of being ol Herm here, when I first saw the blurbs about it, I thought the CEO's name looked familiar.  I actually met her the one and only time I went to Starbucks HQ in Seattle when I was working in beverages at PepsiCo, I was on a joint team trying to work out something with Naked Juice and Starbucks.  I had a Miami University notepad that I just had gotten from an alumni event and she went out of her way after the meeting to stop and chat for a minute as a fellow alum.  I remember thinking it was out of the ordinary and nice as her assistant looked annoyed idling in the door.

Unfortunately, that was before she went super woke.  Now she'd probably try to get me fired on the spot as a white male.

[tower912]

I could not possibly care less about Cracker Barrel.  I eat there if there is nothing else or my aging parents or to make my aging parents or MIL happy.   Salads are decent, usually fresh. I always thought it was aptly named and the current pearl clutching confirms it.

Over a 20 year stretch, every single  time I ate at Cracker Barrel, we received epically bad service.  Waitress forgot you were there bad.  An hour from the time you were seated until the food hit the table bad (multiple times) Family makes jokes about it the whole time and then it happens again bad.  Dad thinks you are full of it and then it happens with him at the table bad.

Reminds me of when MU changed their seal.  Same group of pearl clutchers.

The jinx finally broke, but yeesh.

[Hards Alumni]

The rebrand is incredibly bland.  Chip and Joanna Gaines boring.

They'll be gone in a year, but nothing will be lost.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Sounds familiar to MU82.  I have eaten at one only once because my mom wanted to take the granddaughters there.

Doesn't this fall into the category of "struggling casual sit-down restaurants".  Similar to TGI Fridays changing there name to just Fridays and then closing most of their restaurants.  I know other restaurants in this category are struggling and why they are rebranding and remodeling.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Eaten there once in the last two decades or so. We were on a road trip in the middle of nowhere Arkansas.  It had taken us longer to get to our hotel then we thought it would so it was like 9pm and needed to eat. Ordered pickup from cracker barrel and brought it back to the hotel. It was incredibly meh, but the pickup was quick and they didn't forget anything.

[MU1in77]

Is "MU 1 in 77" a reference to the NC St sweet 16 game?

Hah? Some of us have been MU fans for more than 3 years. I'm pretty sure my bride has been to more MU games and knows more about college basketball than 90% of Scoopers.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

So i may be dumb here,  but why is this change "woke"? Is it just anytime a company changes a logo or slogan it must be due to wokeness?

[MU82]

Wags: It is "an insane reach to see the ire."

So i may be dumb here,  but why is this change "woke"? Is it just anytime a company changes a logo or slogan it must be due to wokeness?

You're not dumb. At least 99% of those who label everything that bugs them "woke" have absolutely no clue about what "woke" means.

It's the new "socialist" or "Marxist" or "libtard."

[Hards Alumni]

Hah? Some of us have been MU fans for more than 3 years. I'm pretty sure my bride has been to more MU games and knows more about college basketball than 90% of Scoopers.

Well at least we know you're not married to Jeff Goodman.

[Uncle Rico]

Hah? Some of us have been MU fans for more than 3 years. I'm pretty sure my bride has been to more MU games and knows more about college basketball than 90% of Scoopers.

I've been a fan since the Air Force flew proud at Lexington

[Uncle Rico]

https://bsky.app/profile/pixelatedboat.bsky.social/post/3lwzgblw2vs2a

[Shaka Shart]

Hah? Some of us have been MU fans for more than 3 years. I'm pretty sure my bride has been to more MU games and knows more about college basketball than 90% of Scoopers.

What does that have to do with white genocide?

[Uncle Rico]

What does that have to do with white genocide?

White *male* genocide

[TSmith34, Inc.]

So i may be dumb here,  but why is this change "woke"? Is it just anytime a company changes a logo or slogan it must be due to wokeness?

Because they took the old, white, southern cracker off the logo. The Confederacy is pissed.

That said, it is the most anodyne, dull logo imaginable.

[Shaka Shart]

https://www.propublica.org/article/groundwater-fresh-water-depletion-research-science-advances-takeaways?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1755997205&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

[MU82]

Summer is getting longer in many parts of the country.



Sweat-inducing temperatures have been arriving earlier and ending later.

[Pakuni]

Because they took the old, white, southern cracker off the logo. The Confederacy is pissed.

That said, it is the most anodyne, dull logo imaginable.

By limiting the logo to just words, they've alienated their illiterate customers.

[Uncle Rico]

By limiting the logo to just words, they've alienated their illiterate customers.

Roughly 87% of them

[PBRme]

Hah? Some of us have been MU fans for more than 3 years. I'm pretty sure my bride has been to more MU games and knows more about college basketball than 90% of Scoopers.

You should let her post for you 

[MU1in77]

You should let her post for you 

Nah - she's got better things to do with her life than post on Scoop

[Shaka Shart]

Our nightmare is over!

https://x.com/crackerbarrel/status/1960475658116632865?s=46

[Uncle Rico]

Our nightmare is over!

https://x.com/crackerbarrel/status/1960475658116632865?s=46

Great news for racists

[The Sultan]

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1960372066370117729

[JWags85]

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1960372066370117729

I understand how absurd it all is and that the whole kerfluffle was just 2025 stupidity and online angst for no reason and how anything with Trump meddling in petty matters will upset some people instinctively...but that's objectively hilarious in how preposterous it is.  Especially that its coming from the damn WH account.  Like I legitimately chuckled out loud at mock logo...especially since its supposed to come across as badass and strong.