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TBF, I might not have stepped into one since the late 90's, early 00s. I think part of it is that I've never really opted for such fare anyway. I don't really care for American food all that much when dining out, and Southern food is most especially not my thing.

The other thing was that when I was younger, I tended to think of Cracker Barrel (and quite a few other chains like Marie Callender's and Village Inn and probably many others I cannot think of right now but you get the drift) as where much older people tended to eat - I mean, "boomer" is now shorthand for "anyone older than 40" it seems, but I don't think I saw many boomers there - this was silent generation/greatest generation as far as I saw. And that's fine if that's what you like; it just didn't seem like something I was ever going to choose myself. Every time I've eaten at Cracker Barrel it was when someone many decades older than me had chosen it as part of a family outing.