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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.
Denny's is actually pretty decent diner food. Or, at least, it was pre-pandemic. Their menu selections have gotten limited since then, and rather pricey. For what Denny's charges today, I'd rather go to Black Bear Diner.

I ate at a Cracker Barrel once, when visiting my in-laws in Missouri many years ago. I don't remember the food at all.
 

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We apparently have one Denny's in the whole of the UK, in Swansea of all places.


Why they chose Swansea rather than (for example) the Welsh capital Cardiff, a few miles away, is a mystery.
They close at 21:00? You haven't experienced Denny's until you stumble out of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 02:30 and need coffee, eggs, and hash browns where a half dozen people in whiteface and tuxedoes led by a guy in a corset, fishnets, and 5 o'clock shadow just kinda blend in.
 

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They close at 21:00? You haven't experienced Denny's until you stumble out of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 02:30 and need coffee, eggs, and hash browns where a half dozen people in whiteface and tuxedoes led by a guy in a corset, fishnets, and 5 o'clock shadow just kinda blend in.
That happens very rarely in Swansea, I think. Just down the road in Cardiff that's a normal Tuesday night, but not Swansea.
 
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They close at 21:00? You haven't experienced Denny's until you stumble out of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 02:30 and need coffee, eggs, and hash browns where a half dozen people in whiteface and tuxedoes led by a guy in a corset, fishnets, and 5 o'clock shadow just kinda blend in.
Ages ago when I worked doing Inventory, we would go to Denny a lot after at like 3 AM.
 
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Nah - the exact reasons aren't known for sure yet, but right now it appears that some shipping company may have decided to use cargo containers that weren't properly decontaminated to move the shrimp.
Which raises the question: decontamination from what? There aren't that many uses for caesium-137, and those only require tiny amounts. So were these containers used for transporting nuclear waste? Where did that come from?

Cracker Barrel changed its restaurant chain logo yesterday and today they have changed it back because of a backlash from right-wing arglbargles who insist that the new logo is offensively "woke" for some darn reason. Woke enough that some of them are like "I'm never stepping foot in one again!"

Here's the old and new logos:



SO WOKE
I haven't seen this being pointed out already, but the oversimplification of logos is just a consequence of the rise of digital media. Cracker Barrel has an app, and that app has an icon which needs to fit on the screen of a smartphone, and also work in multiple resolutions. An overly intricate and big sign you'd put on a house simply doesn’t work for that purpose, so the design gets streamlined. And those changes then bleed into the non-digital world.

The same thing has happened with other logos: Google, Apple, Pringles, KFC, Tesla, Uber and many more.

Even companies that don't have much of a digital presence get affected by this because it sets off a trend they need to follow in order to stay relevant.

So this has nothing to do with "wokeness", the cause is capitalism and corporate decision-making. The people who're telling you "the woke" are behind this are just trying to distract you because they don't want you to think that corporations are a problem.
 

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I haven't seen this being pointed out already, but the oversimplification of logos is just a consequence of the rise of digital media. Cracker Barrel has an app, and that app has an icon which needs to fit on the screen of a smartphone, and also work in multiple resolutions. An overly intricate and big sign you'd put on a house simply doesn’t work for that purpose, so the design gets streamlined. And those changes then bleed into the non-digital world.
Also, I bet making physical signage for that simplified one, especially on menues for ink or whatever, vs the complex man and barrel design, would save the comany actual millions of dollars.
 
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The rralmirony of the whole Cracker Barrel nostalgia thing, is you can probably find the actual old timey experience they are packaging and selling, out there is some small non chain restaurant.
We have a number of those places here in Kansas, but they've also been falling victim to small-town economics more often than not.
 

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All of this talk about shrimp inspired me to watch Shrimp Stories. It's a 10 minute documentary from 1964 about the life of a shrimp. Probably only on the Criterion Channel.

 
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So this has nothing to do with "wokeness", the cause is capitalism and corporate decision-making.
Well, you know this, I know this, and most sane, reasonable people know this. But try convincing the average American MAGA conservative of this. It's like arguing with a brick wall.
 

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Well, you know this, I know this, and most sane, reasonable people know this. But try convincing the average American MAGA conservative of this. It's like arguing with a brick wall.
And if you get into an argument with someone like that, you have my permission to copy/paste my previous post to save you the effort of typing it out yourself.
 
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A late Tennessee sheriff who inspired a Hollywood movie about a law enforcement officer who took on organized crime killed his wife in 1967 and led people to believe she was murdered by his enemies, authorities said Friday. Authorities acknowledged that the finding will likely shock many who grew up as Buford Pusser fans and watched 1973's Walking Tall, which immortalized him as a tough but fair sheriff with zero tolerance for crime. The AP reports the movie was remade in 2004, and many officers joined law enforcement because of his story, according to Mark Davidson, the district attorney for Tennessee's 25th judicial district.

There is enough evidence that if Pusser, the McNairy County sheriff who died in a car crash seven years after his wife's death, were alive today, prosecutors would present an indictment to a grand jury for the killing of Pauline Mullins Pusser, Davidson said. Investigators also uncovered signs that she suffered from domestic violence.
Life rule: Have no heroes.
 

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"Gay people aren’t welcome. According to them, black people and Native Americans are okay as long as they don’t say anything about the past that these guys don’t agree with."
Last night, my favorite investigative reporter, Phil Williams, posted the video above on Bluesky with this text:

BREAKING: “We stand at a crossroads.”Jackson County residents release a video, featuring public historian Mark Dudney, rebuking the white Christian nationalists looking to establish a foothold in Gainesboro, Tennessee.

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That article is pretty wild. Someone really needs to tell these White Supremacists to fuck off. Like, lets go back to punching Nazis fuck off.
 

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That article is pretty wild. Someone really needs to tell these White Supremacists to fuck off. Like, lets go back to punching Nazis fuck off.
Nowadays, that seems to be a widespread phenomenon.

This might be one of the most notorious Nazi takeovers of a small town:



An example from Canada (a cult with links to Q-Anon):


And Scientology is notorious for this as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Normandy