Cracker Barrel Old Country Store

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Now I like Cracker Barrel and anyone that's been there probably know what I'm talking about, but I came to the conclusion that I'm really old when I see the items they have on the wall and ceiling and can remember using them or at least have seen them used and not just in the movies. I'm sure there are lots of people that go there and have no idea what some of the items are. Then again I remember the old folks in the family calling dollars folding money and pumping the old well pump by hand. Those were the good old hard days.
 
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I'm not old enough to have used many of the antiques, but I sure wonder how those folks find and acquire all that stuff to stock their many restaurants.

I also wonder how much they're paying so many people for their priceless family photographs. I wonder how grandma would feel if she knew her heirs were going to turn her portrait over to a restaurant chain to hang on one of their walls.

Well, pardon the drift -just some thoughts I have every time I eat in there.

Regards,
Andy


P.S. I think that their meatloaf and green beans are excellent -good enough to make you forget how old you are.
 
When I was a kid, my grandmother lived in a cold water flat in Chicago. In the hall, shared with the other tenants on the floor, was a stinky bathroom containing a toilet with a pull chain. No sink.
 
I'm not old enough to have used many of the antiques, but I sure wonder how those folks find and acquire all that stuff to stock their many restaurants.

I also wonder how much they're paying so many people for their priceless family photographs. I wonder how grandma would feel if she knew her heirs were going to turn her portrait over to a restaurant chain to hang on one of their walls.

Well, pardon the drift -just some thoughts I have every time I eat in there.




I'm not old enough to have used many of those old tools either but I remember many of those old signs that were hanging around at the grain elevator and the old hardware store in the little town I grew up in. I remember old tools stashed in the tractor shed and barn too. Stuff that wasn't discarded in the trash is nowadays sought out for decoration.

As to the old family pictures, sadly many are to be found in antique stores or at sales. Once the people who knew them are gone many are just "old pictures" and not valued by folks who have either little interest in the past or feel no connection to the people in them. I have talked to more than one person who has found such photos in the trash or left behind in an old house. A friend recently showed me some tintypes he had. He had bought a house from some local people and helped them move into a smaller retirement home. While they kept certain things there was a box of old photos they told him to put with the trash because "they didn't know who the people in them were". He couldn't see throwing them away so saved them even if only to sell them at an antique show.

Now as to Cracker Barrel itself, I love the biscuits and gravy, oh yeah the pancakes too. Just wish I could keep the wife from wandering around in the gift shop too long. The meal always ends up costing me a lot extra (though she did find the grand daughter a lovely little dress for Easter this year!).
 
I love Cracker Barrel's for traveling. If you are traveling by motorhome they will allow you to spend the night on their parking lot. ;)
Their meals are always good and yes I enjoy looking at the different antiques at all the different locations I visit. I always like to see if any are from my area and how far it traveled to get there? Found a local potato chip can in one down in Virginia.:cool:
I'm sure they are having people going to estate sales to pick a lot of this stuff up and maybe to area flea markets and yard sales.
 
I'm not old enough to have used many of the antiques, but I sure wonder how those folks find and acquire all that stuff to stock their many restaurants.

I also wonder how much they're paying so many people for their priceless family photographs. I wonder how grandma would feel if she knew her heirs were going to turn her portrait over to a restaurant chain to hang on one of their walls.

Well, pardon the drift -just some thoughts I have every time I eat in there.

Regards,
Andy


P.S. I think that their meatloaf and green beans are excellent -good enough to make you forget how old you are.

Pretty sure everything is "fake" as in reproductions.

Everything in the "gifty" store is from China as well.

Wife loves to eat there, it's pretty good and consistent. Why they don't have collards is beyond me, they have mustard greens??
 
A while back was eating in the Las Cruces Cracker Barrel.
It was cold weather and they had a hot fire in a big fireplace.
And it looked like a hardwood fire.
Folks, this is not a hardwood place!
So I asked the hostess what kind of wood is that?
She went and asked the manager, and told me Pecan.
Southern NM is a big time pecan production area and this was apparently firewood from dead pecan trees.
 
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I love cracker barrel they always have very good meals and service is always top notch. Love the fish dinner and chicken liver dinner
Our bike club always has a breakfeast stop there. They love us as bike riders always tend to be very good tipers.
 
we had dinner at cracker barrel last night...service and food is grrrrrr8...usually go there at least once a week.

while paying the bill, i noticed a display of clark bars, turned to my wife and asked...i wonder how many folks know what those are?.....
 
How do you think the guys from "American Pickers" make their real money? They aren't the only ones, either, there's an industry, albeit a small one, that buys up antiques and discarded stuff and sells it as "decor".

On the whole, Grandma would probably be happy that people are seeing her picture and wondering who she was as opposed to that picture sitting in a trunk somewhere until someone decides to toss the whole thing.


I'm not old enough to have used many of the antiques, but I sure wonder how those folks find and acquire all that stuff to stock their many restaurants.

I also wonder how much they're paying so many people for their priceless family photographs. I wonder how grandma would feel if she knew her heirs were going to turn her portrait over to a restaurant chain to hang on one of their walls.

Well, pardon the drift -just some thoughts I have every time I eat in there.

Regards,
Andy


P.S. I think that their meatloaf and green beans are excellent -good enough to make you forget how old you are.
 
Got to love a place that has a double barrel shotgun above the fireplace (at least mine does). :)

Probably fake, but you won't see that at the local hipster rabbit food eatery!!

For about 10 years at our sort of local Cracker they had a old double barrel hanging over the fireplace. It had no forend on it:D Then all of a sudden after all that time a forend appeared under the barrels.

We have done a lot of road trips going to car shows and have eaten at a lot of C.B.s over the years. I have no complaints. Reasonably decent food, plenty of it, price and service fine.
 
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