Cracker Barrel’s CEO faces an uphill battle to revive the restaurant chain after a blunt admission sent stock prices plummeting 20 per cent.
Cracker Barrel’s CEO faces an uphill battle to revive the restaurant chain after a blunt admission sent stock prices plummeting 20 per cent.
The cracker boss man done fucked up. Some new barrels for the crackers should do it. They’ll even have loyal cracker programs.
“cracker” is a term used for slave owners on horseback ‘cracking the whip’ on the backs of slaves. Possibly analogous to a modern CEO that pays slave wages. Like half minimum wage to server staff.
“Cracker Barrel” refers to 19th century rations. The Cracker was a shelf stable hard-tack biscuit and they were packed into barrels or boxes for transport. You would have encountered hard tack in the military or as a poverty food.
There is a story about General Lee and Jackson meeting before Chancellorsville while sat on these boxes called the “Crackerbox Meeting”
I don’t think the name is related to the anti-white pejorative.
Not it is not but, it is know to a haven for old white people so…
I thought you were wrong about the term. I’ve lived all my life in the south and had known it to reference poor whites that had to crack corn to live. But Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(term), says your definition is one of the meanings. I learned something today!
This is a cute little history lesson you two have been on, but the name for the restaurant comes from barrels of literal crackers.