Take Your A** to Cracker Barrel

[orleans]

"You can lead a Trumper to culture, but you can't make them think..."

back to cracker barrel -
lol -- wow, this woman (jennifer) kicks ass, it was a great rant and is early in the video (3:40 in)
my first time watching this podcast. i saw a fb reel with an excerpt from this show and
found the whole show on youtube.

podcast: "i've had it"

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[Just Jerome]

1. Agree!

I recently stumbled across IHIP. These two are a riot.

[Oopsie Daisy]

2. Wait, what? Are we supposed to hate Cracker Barrel now?

They're a little overpriced, but these days, everyone is. I like their food... it takes me back.

[Nimble_Idea]

6. That food taste like shit. omg. likely what they feed at gitmo or gaza children aid. no wonder they are starving

[Oopsie Daisy]

10. That hasn't been my experience at all. We find it rather tasty and endulgent...

... and with all the fat and grease and sugar additives, I'm sure it's not healthy fare for daily eating... but a few times a year, we enjoy it.

[Iris]

14. I literally had fried chicken AND meatloaf when I was coming down with an infection while traveling for work

After that meal, I slept for 14 hours!

[Oopsie Daisy]

21. Comfort food is the best medicine. It may not cure what ails-ya...

... but it makes the recovery process a little more tolerable.

[Iris]

30. For sure. I knew I needed to sleep so I ate like was going to hibernate!

[Iris]

7. She's basically saying if you don't like people from Mexico, maybe don't enjoy their food

If people want a white supremist lifestyle, they should stick to "white" foods (although, southern cooking could be unpacked in terms of origins as well)

[Oopsie Daisy]

9. I guess it's a little too nuanced for me to quickly pick up on.

Thanks for the info.

[Iris]

13. It is definitely a way of thinking that takes a minute!

It's basically the concept of cultural appropriation - where you use something from a culture that you actively disdain in day-to-day life.

I also like Cracker Barrel!

[yardwork]

15. Let's think about what "pure white food" would be...

Basically, what they ate in Western Europe in the early Middle Ages, after Romans took their food back and before the spice trade.

Mostly lentils and dried peas. Reconstituted with water, flavored with some leeks or onions. Occasional piece of pork. That's about it.

No spices, no tomatoes, no citrus, no chocolate, no fried chicken, no chiles, no peanuts, definitely no lemon squares, chocolate chess pie, or any of the other foods that make life living.

[mwmisses4289]

27. Actually, trade continued in Europe even after

the roman empire fell. Spices, cloth, knowledge, etc., continued to cross all over. Citrus, chili's, herbs....as with today, what you ate depended on what you could afford.
Some good you tube sites to check out:
Time team (this focuses mostly on U.k. archeology, from prehistory to about 1800s, with plenty of roman and medieval digs as the focus)

Tasting History with Max Miller
It's food. He will make the earliest version of a dish that has historical documentation, explain historical context of that dish, and then eat it. The faces he makes are often funny, especially when he finds a dish actually tastes really good.

There are several others, but those are the main two I can think of off the top of my head.

[yardwork]

28. The vast majority of people couldn't afford that, though,

And definitely no chiles, tomatoes, potatoes, chocolate or other New World foods in Europe before 1492.

[Iris]

33. Yep. Exactly.

[misanthrope]

32. "White foods"? You mean like beef bourguignon, bouillabaisse,

quiche lorraine, fondue, jagerschnitzel, caviar, rye bread, apple strudel, borscht, Swedish meatballs, cabbage rolls, goulash or pierogi?

[Iris]

34. Haha! Exactly!

But that's the point. Cracker Barrel is what they think is "white food"

[misanthrope]

36. They have black-eyed peas

Those are from Africa.

Efforts to draw extraordinarily strict race-based demarcations around food requires a sort of willful ignorance about how human culture works.

[Iris]

37. That's why I put "white food" in quotes

As a white person, I think white people need to be honest with themselves about food ways and all other parts of our "culture" that aren't really ours.

[misanthrope]

38. Nor may they "belong"

To the ethnicities with which we associate them. Think about the differences between northern Italian cuisine and southern Italian and how that was influenced by shipping access. Where would Italian food be without squash, tomato, potato, chiles and beans?

Human culture is our chief tool for adaptation. We are hard-wired to absorb and adapt and have been doing so since we first left east Africa. Everything we are and do is a long mish-mash of what we have picked across the numerous millennia.

[Tommy Carcetti]

11. They have good sausage biscuits

Sue me for saying that.

[misanthrope]

31. There is a faint whiff

of broad-brush bigotry in this thread, built upon specious social constructs of race. It is unflattering.

[Emile]

3. LOL, get your bible thumping, teenie weiner, fat ass to Cracker Barrel.

[Iris]

4. They are fabulous. They also have a mini news podcast on Tuesdays and Thursdays

[Nimble_Idea]

5. HAHAH Found my bestie!! holy jeebus! thank you!

[seleff]

8. White Frangelas

[malaise]

12. Pleasant and informative viewing

Thanks😀

[Celerity]

16. those two are fucking great!!!

[malaise]

18. Even better stated

😂😂😂😂

[Celerity]

19. hugz sis

[Celerity]

17. big K & R!!!

[Prairie_Seagull]

20. Never seen them before, love em.

Were they in the Navy? haha they are so fucking salty.

[Raftergirl]

22. One of my fav pods to listen to.

I don’t listen to their news one because I have sworn off listening to any news.

[mike_c]

23. CB is my wife's favorite restaurant

There's one about fifteen minutes from our house. I am so tired of their menu AND their shtick, lol!

[yardwork]

24. Don't you like the gift shoppe?

[mike_c]

25. you mean the congested football scrum between the front door...

...and the restaurant minder?

[Xavier Breath]

26. True, it's a bit congested in there.

I sometimes feel like I'm going to turn the wrong way and "buy" some merchandise.

[orleans]

29. i have never been in a cb restaurant

never knew of any that were in my area.
so i googled just now.
there is one that isn't that far from where i am
but, alas, i still have no desire to explore it

[Footay]

35. I love Jen & Pumps

I have been following these two for years when they were the breakout stars of a reality show on Bravo - Sweet Home Oklahoma, I think it was called. I was so happy to hear they had launched a podcast, and it's now one of my favorites. Neither holds back on ANYTHING, and I love Jen's quick wit and being able to do a takedown in one breath!