I wish these people cared as much about the president being a pedophile as they do about this mid-ass restaurant changing its logo.
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2025
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They need these distractions, otherwise they start to actually think. Their leaders can't have that happening.
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If it encourages them to eat there, is it really such a bad thing, I mean t a diet heavy in the types of food Cracker Barrel sells can't be good for you and republicans hate healthcare. Seems like it might be a self-solving problem.
They hate healthcare until they need it. Then they have a sob story and create a GoFundMe.
Its not even political at all. It was just dumb corporate blandness that defeats the purpose of the restsurant's image. Conservatives made it political because their CEO happens to be a woman.
McDonald’s and taco bells used to look so cool, now everything is corporate and bland and sterile. Chain Restaurants all look the same now
What happened to McDonald’s? Apart from maybe a slight font change, it’s the exact same thing from 70 years ago.
Also, Burger King is an example of ditching a trendy look and going back to an older, more timeless logo.
I think they’re talking about the restaurants themselves. McDonald’s used to have some wild interiors!
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I'm pretty sure conservative media made it political to rile up their base and distract from anything important; ditto the Sydney Sweeny fuckaround
Step 1: Get a terrible rebranding done
Step 2: Wag the dog with fake/paid outrage
Step 3: Reverse the decision letting people think they’ve won
Step 4: Profit
It’s New Coke all over again.
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Conservatives are fucking dumb
EDIT: this stinks of Fox News outrage. Goes to show how their viewer are so easily led.
I have moments where I think I’m surprised that something stupid matters to people, then I remember how stupid some people are. Thank goodness conservatives are such active participants in the things that matter most
how stupid
There's that, and there is also a massive ecosystem of griftfluencers endlessly manufacturing outrage and pumping it straight into millions of anger addicts, every hour of every day, from Fox News at the top, all the way down to Uncle Jeff on Facebook. The need to get high short-circuits intelligence every time.
Conservatives are calling this a win? Really???
Cracker Barrel: Changes logo.
Me: Didn't even know this happened months ago. Thats how little I care.
Conservatives: WE WILL FIGHT FOR A FICTIONAL OLD WHITE MAN'S RIGHT TO EXIST IN A LOGO!!!!
Me: Still doesn't give a shit.
Cracker Barrel: Changes logo back.
Me: Still doesn't give a shit.
Conservatives: WE WON!!!!
Me: STILL doesn't give a shit. You're the winner of a game that no one wants to play.
When you own all three branches of the government, have deported thousands of innocent, disenfranchised people, and you've got civil liberties and democracy on the ropes, but your whole shtick is grievance and vengeance, you get nonsense like this. They need more to things to get mad at to feed the monkey on their back.
They will always find another bag of Rage Heroin somewhere. Fox can always manufacture more.
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Imagine caring that much about a corporate logo. Weirdos.
Republicans are sensitive snowflakes
I didn't give a shit when they changed it, and I still don't.
Goddamnit stop teaching conservative snowflakes that their annoying, incessant whining works sometimes!
I said it in the last thread and I'll say it again here: I do not give a single flying fuck about any political motivation behind the changing nor changing back of the Cracker Barrel logo, either real or simply perceived, but their new logo was objectively terrible. It was so bland and unmemorable that whoever designed it should have their Macbook confiscated and be catapulted into the ocean. That is, the both of them. But preferably one each into different oceans. I don't know how much that braindead rebrand cost them in consultancy fees but I hope they can ask for a refund.
bland and unmemorable
This is why it was great. It perfectly encapsulated both their food and store. It was an ideal logo for them.
I guess it’s easy to win a culture war where you’re the only belligerent
Good thing this "controversy" came along, I'd all but forgotten the place exists.
🤣 another win for conservatives. I don't know why I even care anymore.
Whiny snowflakes got their way and now see that they can threaten more businesses to cater to their WEIRD ASS COMPLAINTS
Put the old man back in, but add another man standing behind him with his hand on the first dude's shoulder. They'll flip their shit even harder.
And everybody forgot about the Epstein files and we all lived happily ever after the end.
What's the problem with the new logo?
Bland? No need to change? Why the whole thing?
Wait, you mean you weren't boycotting and crying about the old logo and forcing the company to remove the image of the guy sitting by the barrel? I mean, I'm sure ONE of us leftists was outraged and screaming about it and forcing a good, hard-working American company to change its ways, if it wasn't you, then who could it have been??
Well whoever did it, I sure feel "owned" by the right over all this. They sure scored a victory over wokeness on this round 🙄
TBF, I've been boycotting Cracker Barrel for decades. Not because of their positions or anything like that, but because the food is terrible. They're hands down one of the worst chains there is.
Kind of like how my boycott of Target was a success, AND i got started much, much sooner than everyone else. (Because they're overpriced and their selection sucks.)
I mean... A broken clock is right twice a day and all that
Awww… the new one was so much cleaner and nicer.
This almost feels like a bet, or an experiment, by social media political manipulators. Like, one guy says to another, "I bet I can make Cracker Barrel change their logo back in less than two weeks using nothing more than a social media outage campaign." "Deal."
And then they do it, with some carefully planted posts across many platforms, and some well-placed calls to conservative commentators, calling attention to those posts. They successfully demonstrate their social media manipulating prowess, and ultimately sell their wares for the upcoming election cycle.
They should increase the cost of of all of their products to cover the increased cost to print their existing logo. There's no way the newer one wasn't cheaper lol
MAGAts can be mighty proud they "goterdun".
Was this just conservatives? I never saw anyone say anything positive about the changes. Potential problems with some decor they might have, I don't think that reasonably translates to completely scrub it of all personality anyway.
I'm not a conservative, it was either a bad call or a good publicity stunt.
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A new logo wasn't going to change the fact it's a racist restaurant chain so it's fine by me of they keep the old logo, not like the new logo was going to get me to break my twenty plus year steak of avoiding this place.
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Corporate always chickens out
Caco
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