Cracker Barrel Old Country Store

[wingriderz]

When the bike groups go and go large meaning numbers of bikes before run or after run can be any where from 30 to 100 most at least 90 % have a carry on them never an issuse at any ones we run threw state wide.More than one time mananger came out and had coffe with us and talk bikes.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Like others, I've never had a bad experience or a bad meal. That being said, I've never had a great meal either. (Two thumbs up on Bob Evans)

As for the wall art, it's really cool to look at but it doesn't make me nostalgic.

 

[arjay]

Man, the way you all rave about CB you would think it was the second coming.
I hope to never cross the doorstep of one again. I have been in several in different parts of the country. Never had a meal I would want to repeat.
The cold greenish scrambled eggs at one in AZ was the end for me.

I've only been once.The place kind of creeped me out! [emoji15]

 

[Jack Flash]

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!!

Our local CB has a double side by side shot gun over the fire place too. Looks to be a muzzle loader, judging by the ramrod under the barrels. I wouldn't want to be anywhere around if someone decides to try it out.

 

[6518John]

Man, the way you all rave about CB you would think it was the second coming.
I hope to never cross the doorstep of one again. I have been in several in different parts of the country. Never had a meal I would want to repeat.
The cold greenish scrambled eggs at one in AZ was the end for me.

But they have that golf tee game on the triangle! Checkers while sitting in rocking chairs too.

 

[eveled]

Funny thing about old pictures. People take the picture of a person, then years later nobody knows who the person is, the best part is what is in the background. The buildings and cars and such.

I love looking at old photos. Most tenement buildings have boxes and boxes of old pictures in the basements nobody cares about. The tenant dies, the boxes of pictures stay behind. Kind of sad.

 

[ameridaddy]

......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.

I've used the term "folding money" and have used an outhouse, a lowered bucket on a crank reel and a lever arm pump to get a cool drink at my grandfather's boyhood home. And don't you ever forget to leave the priming can full of water before you leave the lever pump, or somebody will call you a bunch of dirty names. I lived in a house with a kerosene space heater in the central hallway and an icebox too. We kids had fun chasing the iceman's truck down the street to snatch the chips of ice off the wet wooden floor that he made cutting the block. The same floor he walked on with his dirty shoes. We never got sick from that or wore helmets to ride a bike either.
I'm still here. I must be older than dirt.
BTW, I like the CB chicken and dumplings, the ice tea, and the friendly service. I could do with less noise and less kitsch on the walls.

 

[rwsmith]

Why on earth....

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.

Why on earth would anybody need a sink in the toilet?

 

[snubbyfan]

One was recently built on the way from the Y to the Super Walmart.
On grocery day we stop there after our workout.
I usually get the buttermilk chicken with 290 calories and have it with green beans, steamed broccoli and a glass of water.
I like all the cool stuff they have but there is one that bugs me.
There's an old wood clamp. That's pretty cool but one end's on backwards.
I wanna assemble it correctly.

 

[meaneyedcatz]

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.

Cracker Barrel has employees that search out and buy authentic antiques. That's their job, must be nice.

 

[swsig]

Funny thing about old pictures. People take the picture of a person, then years later nobody knows who the person is, the best part is what is in the background. The buildings and cars and such. ...

When she was a teenager, my maternal grandmother lived in Prescott, Arizona Territory. I have a photo of her taken at the courthouse square. In the background across the street, is a modest storefront with a sign reading "Goldwater's Department Store".

 

[kimporter]

never eat at the one we have,went one time,food sucked,service was rude,just a bad experience

 

[GRU_ 7_ mech]

I worked for Medieval Times, and worked with a man that actually duplicates the items found in the castles. Very interesting how some of the items are duplicated in the fashion the original items were made. When my wife worked at Cracker Barrel I was surprised to learn ALL the items are original....not duplicates.

 

[rwt1405]

Man, the way you all rave about CB you would think it was the second coming.
I hope to never cross the doorstep of one again. I have been in several in different parts of the country. Never had a meal I would want to repeat.
The cold greenish scrambled eggs at one in AZ was the end for me.

All I have is WOW!

I have to say, that before reading this thread, I had never heard of anyone that didn't enjoy the meals (and service) at CB.

I've eaten hundreds of meals at CB, and have found every one of them to be excellent (as was the service)!

Also, when traveling, I enjoy nothing better then seeing a sign for CB, and knowing that I'll be able to get a quality, great tasting meal and some great service!


Now I am sure, that from time top time CB serves up a bad meal and has some bad service (it is, after all, run by humans), but to hear some of you talk here I can only thank God that I don't have to try and please you.

 

[pawngal]

All I have is WOW!

I have to say, that before reading this thread, I had never heard of anyone that didn't enjoy the meals (and service) at CB.

I've eaten hundreds of meals at CB, and have found every one of them to be excellent (as was the service)!

Also, when traveling, I enjoy nothing better then seeing a sign for CB, and knowing that I'll be able to get a quality, great tasting meal and some great service!


Now I am sure, that from time top time CB serves up a bad meal and has some bad service (it is, after all, run by humans), but to hear some of you talk here I can only thank God that I don't have to try and please you.

We all have choices in life, including food. I choose to not go to
CB. For more reasons than the food. My late husband was in very poor physical health and could barely walk and they tried to seat us in the far corner when there were 2 empty tables just inside the door. Finally did get seated there and very rude service followed. And there are other reasons too.
These were over various visits, not just one and done.

I have no reason to spend my money at CB, there are choices.
(that don't taste like bad hospital food)

 

[Walkingwolf]

Well I always wondered how to describe their food, but that is the best, hospital food. I didn't find it bad, just bland, lack of country flavor.

Plus taking chances in life IMO makes it interesting. Who wants to go on vacation, travel, and eat in the same places as home. I like a change of pace. Places like No Name Key Pub, Dirty Dicks Crab Shack, Alabama Jacks on Card Sound Key Largo, and a good number of local places in the Florida Keys, and south Florida.

Any number of small towns throughout the nation have great little locally owned restaurants. Wish I could remember the names of all of them we have visited. But once you visit a CB, you have seen them all.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

I like the candy at Cracker Barrel, one of the few places that I can find a Chunky bar.

 

[alwaysoutdoors]

I still like them, but remember when they were ALOT better!

 

[Cyrano]

Well I always wondered how to describe their food, but that is the best, hospital food. I didn't find it bad, just bland, lack of country flavor.

Plus taking chances in life IMO makes it interesting. Who wants to go on vacation, travel, and eat in the same places as home. I like a change of pace. Places like No Name Key Pub, Dirty Dicks Crab Shack, Alabama Jacks on Card Sound Key Largo, and a good number of local places in the Florida Keys, and south Florida.

Any number of small towns throughout the nation have great little locally owned restaurants. Wish I could remember the names of all of them we have visited. But once you visit a CB, you have seen them all.

I live in far west Texas; the Tigua indians operate a restaurant down the road a bit from the town of Ysleta. It has the best green chile I've ever tasted, but you have to have an asbestos gullet to get the stuff down!

 

[Big Cholla]

I have eaten in a CB exactly four times.....My wife is a sucker for their phony 'antique store'. My only comment is that it is my humble opinion that they emphasis "quantity" over "quality". My last of the four 'adventures' was in Yuma, AZ. It took me three days to get over that 'adventure'. I vowed, "Never Again". ......