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[–] LBP321@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

How do you give your life to Christ in a parking lot?

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 points 19 hours ago

Is it supposed to read like he got banged in the ass for some crackers or am I just fucked in the head?

[–] boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What a pathetic fucking culture.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Super pathetic.

[–] laserm@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What exactly are they pissed about? Yeah, the new design looks like ass, but what's woke or even political about that?

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

It's the original logo

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

The CEO is a woman! WITH GLASSES!!!

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

It's a day ending in Y, and they needed their daily outrage, so they can get their Dopamine fix.

[–] waitmarks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Woke is anything you don’t like.

[–] razzazzika@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

"Anything that I don't like is woke" word has lost meaning.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What, like he got crucified in their parking lot?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

This is such a stupid "controversy." I highly doubt that a company that has built itself on being old style southern has gone "woke," they just adjusted their logo - like EVERY OTHER corporation in America.

Look at the big Pylon outside of your local shopping center, the one with all the store logos listed on it. Nearly all of them are basically the same - their name inside of a rectangle. The only differences are the variables like the font, the font color, the background color, borders, drop shadows, etc. And that's it, just the company name in some font, in some color, on a background color. Things like hand-written fonts (Coca-Cola, Ford), odd shapes (Chevrolet), mascots (the Cracker Barrel Geezer), etc., are all out these days.

In fact, Cracker Barrel's new logo goes a little outside the norm with the odd shape.

This is just a corporation doing what corporations do. Why is this any of MAGA's business?

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

now that I've been forced to hear about this shit halfway around the globe, can someone tell me what's the significance of the bean-like shape of the original's background?

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it echoes the shape of a baby in the womb or some shit, probably (retroactively decided by the general public)

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

seems like it has been referred to as kidney bean so that's what I'm gonna go with, not that it matters much anymore. at least until they inevitably bring it back

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

So now American corporations have to get permission from MAGA to change their logo?

I'm about to expand my business from a tourist city to a big HCOL city, and I want to rebrand it in the new city, with a new name and logo. Do I need to apply for MAGA permission first? Does Don Jr have to sign off first?

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

No woke? Back to picking cotton then. But just for this guy!

[–] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I mean does anyone else remember the story about Cracker Barrel refusing to seat black families, or is that just me?

[–] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean aside from it basically being in the name and having never seen a non pink person there... ever, there's these

2004... https://sanfordheisler.com/case/discrimination-harassment/cracker-barrel-race-discrimination-class-action/

https://aaregistry.org/story/restaurant-chain-admits-racism/

2025... https://aflegal.org/press-release/america-first-legal-calls-for-federal-and-state-investigations-into-cracker-barrel-over-unlawful-and-discriminatory-employment-practices/

But like I said it's in the name dude. If you don't look like a cracker they'll put you over a barrel.

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[–] ddplf@szmer.info 112 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Cracker Barrel Remodel - Old vs New

I'm not an American and I've only seen this logo a couple of time but I'll be completely honest - this remodel fucking sucks.

I despise minimalism and these transitions from oldschool cool to these post-modernist corporate garbage. And that's definitely one.

[–] ALLHAILHYPNOTOAD@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What is “woke” about this branding exactly? Are square minimalist logos more empathetic to minorities somehow? They seriously just use woke to describe anything they don’t like. Woke is to conservatives as bogus was to 90s surfer dude stereotypes.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are getting rid of the old school Americana vibe they had.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

I don't get it because it's "old school Americana"^tm^. It's a fucking national company. If you really care about old school americana you would be visiting local diners that have been established for decades, not some incorporated theme park of a restaurant. I can't take anyone serious that's upset about this.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

There's nothing good about the new logo... but there is so much wrong with the old logo. This is a vast improvement, but it sure as fuck isn't going to get me into a Cracker Barrel.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I feel very opposite and really appreciate the minimalist in this case. I don't always, but I just don't think the old logo was aesthetically pleasing at all.

"Utter woke nonsense" - Some boomer

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 37 points 2 days ago (5 children)

what that's why everyone is bitching about it? like THAT?? how is that "going woke"? i guess woke is when you sans-serif.

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Its woke because they took the cracker off. They are erasing crackers

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[–] lowleekun@ani.social 60 points 2 days ago

Another chapter in "Everything i do not like is woke"

The new design is minimalistic slop, for sure. But why would i give a fuck about a companies logo. Honestly we should not even be reacting to this bait.

[–] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The real positive to take away from this is Cracker Barrel is dogshit food, and there's so many other equivalent dogshit chain restaurants usually located in the dogshit vicinity of a Cracker Barrel, that you can still eat dogshit, and not have to go inside a new, modern, dogshit Cracker Barrel.

... Just go to Applebee's or Chili's. It's the same dogshit.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Can we also offer another option called “respecting yourself” and ordering a pizza instead?

whoa whoa whoa stop right there chilis today is freaking awesome

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 22 points 2 days ago (12 children)

As a European, I don't know what Cracker Barrel is, and I couldn't care less.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Go with that.

[–] PlasmaTrout@lemmy.wtf 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Most Americans don't care either honestly.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

NO American cares about this, even the ones who are whining about it. They don't give a rat's ass, it's just an opportunity to be performative about...something.

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[–] froggycar360@slrpnk.net 25 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It’s not just the logo, they’re remodeling the inside to be more “modern”. The kitschy americana vibe was the only reason people go there.

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[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 52 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

I'm confused. The new logo is great, or it's shit, I don't care. But what does it have to do with wokeness? Did the old man sitting by the barrel start sucking dick on the billboard? Has he transitioned? Does the new logo secretly spell out black lives matter in invisible ink? It's just the name in a sort of blob? How is this political? What am I missing here?

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[–] chellewalker@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 days ago

This isn't "woke", this is the corporate trend of oversimplifing logos no matter how much people liked the old ones.

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