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Innula Zenovka

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Baudrillard’s most celebrated book is his 1981 volume Simulacra and Simulation, where he famously wrote about the map preceding the territory, and about Disneyland existing to conceal the fact that all of America is Disneyland.
 

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So you think Cracker Barrel is nothing but fake nostalgia, a mock simulation of reality? Hey, let's talk about Olive Garden...
Wait, Olive Garden is not exactly like Italy?
 
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So you think Cracker Barrel is nothing but fake nostalgia, a mock simulation of reality? Hey, let's talk about Olive Garden...
My dad liked that place. Good if you want a bunch of staff singing happy birthday to your kids. Crappy food though, especially considering all the Italian restaurants around here.
 

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especially considering all the Italian restaurants around here.
A rule of thumb taught to me by a boss I had in the food industry: if they serve meatballs with the spaghetti, it's not a real Italian restaurant.
 
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Due to Circumstances, I was on the road one Thanksgiving and ate Thanksgiving dinner at a Cracker Barrel.

Not what you'd call a peak life experience. One star. Would not recommend.
 

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Was the turkey at least dry and nearly inedible? That would make it authentically old-timey American country style.
It was dessicated, but I smothered it in delicious self-pity and general woefulness.
 

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I don't think I've ever eaten at a Cracker Barrel before. Not in my adult life at least. Maybe when I was a kid? But I don't remember it at all.

I remember Denny's. Diner-class food but you know, sometimes it hit the spot back then.
 

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I have been in one because I needed to use a restroom in Kansas.
 
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I don't think I've ever eaten at a Cracker Barrel before. Not in my adult life at least. Maybe when I was a kid? But I don't remember it at all.

I remember Denny's. Diner-class food but you know, sometimes it hit the spot back then.
I have been a few times but only once eve remotely recently. By boss has to travel to all his locations quarterly to visit bis employees, which ushally just means getting lunch on the company dime. We went to the Cracker Barrel one time. I got some pretty tasty eggs benedict.

Which feels like another issue, I ended up liking the dish enough that I had it again, made at home, much cheaper and easier.
 

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I don’t think they have Cracker Barrel restaurants here, but we have a dairy company (mostly cheese) called Cracker Barrel. No Olive Gardens in Quebec, at least. But we do have Denny’s apparently. I remember them from when younger out west.

Anyhow, I guess I’m not missing much.