(08-22-2025 04:31 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Texas Roadhouse - Si.

Yep. I agree.

That said, Longhorn Steakhouse - Even better. lol

(08-22-2025 04:40 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 04:25 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 04:15 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  I know that people eat at Chili's, Applebee's, & Cracker Barrel, but I simply don't understand why? Same goes for Olive Garden, Outback, & Redneck Lobster.

Chili's, Cracker Barrel, Outback - Si

Applebee's, Olive Garden, Red Lobster - No

Different strokes...I try not to judge people by their culinary choices. We would be boring as hell if we all liked the same stuff.

Oh no. I will judge you and judge you harshly!

Hey, we howler monkeys eat whatever we feel like, lol.

(08-22-2025 04:54 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 04:31 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Texas Roadhouse - Si.

Yep. I agree.

That said, Longhorn Steakhouse - Even better. lol

My wife loved Longhorn. I'm not a big fan, although it's certainly not terrible. I just prefer TX Roadhouse and Outback, of the chain places.

(08-22-2025 05:07 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 04:54 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 04:31 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Texas Roadhouse - Si.

Yep. I agree.

That said, Longhorn Steakhouse - Even better. lol

My wife loved Longhorn. I'm not a big fan, although it's certainly not terrible. I just prefer TX Roadhouse and Outback, of the chain places.

For me, it's Longhorn > Outback > Texas Roadhouse. Still, all three are great. (Of course, that's just my opinion.)

(08-22-2025 02:35 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 01:30 PM)450bench Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 10:49 AM)bill dazzle Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 09:56 AM)450bench Wrote:  I brought it up here a couple of weeks ago when the news of the change broke.
More evidence of Nashville going total woke.

Such a stupid decision.

As I noted previously, Cracker Barrel is located in Lebanon, the county seat of Wilson County (which sits adjacent to Nashville/Davidson County). Wilson County is Trump Country.

This suggestion that the "wokeness" of Nashville has somehow infiltrated the Cracker Barrel leadership borders on odd.

Just call it what it is: a stupid decision by Cracker Barrel. No need to insert the "Nashville is going total woke" argument. We (Nashville) have enough problems as it is to be worried about one more concern (in this case, a bad move by CB) that is not of our making.

Odd?
No it isn’t.
It’s simply a parallel.
Cracker Barrel being in a Nashville suburb, making stupid, woke adjustments to a highly successful brand parallels the once thriving city of Nashville shifting left, taking liberal stands on issues, electing an true idiot liberal mayor, etc. etc.

Seems par for the course for Nashvegas.

This does, indeed, look like a woke move that will backfire horribly. I'm with you on that.

But I take exception to your comment "the once thriving city of Nashville shifting left" and with your suggesting Cracker Barrel's move is somehow related to Nashville's political and social influence.

Wilson County (home to CBRL) is its own animal — and rather mainstream and conservative. This is a Cracker Barrel fumble of its own making. I don't buy the "parallel" you present.

Nashville has always been a left-leaning city. Every mayor we've ever had was a Democrat. It's not like Freddie O'Connell (our current mayor) was elected and — all of a sudden — Nashville got woke. We're not "shifting left." We've always been left with some independents (such as myself) and some conservatives as part of the mix. And we've risen to our current status as a major American city with leftist mayors. I wonder how that happened?

And Nashville is still thriving. One of the 10 fastest-growing large MSAs (1 million or more residents) in the U.S. About to see work start on Oracle's eastern headquarters. Multiple buildings of 300 feet tall and taller under construction. Continued growth at our various universities (with both woke and non-woke students wanting to come to Nashville for college).

Many of the folks who come to our city for a good time voted for Trump. And I welcome them. Have met many. They don't seem to share your concerns. If Nashville was too lefty for them ... they would cease visiting.

We're doing fine. And Bill Dazzle — who also dislikes woke-ism — sees the healthiness every day living and working in Nashville.

Good. Glad it works for you. Wokeism is creeping in on Nashville. It just is. Fight it as long as you can. And good luck.
Nashville, like Memphis leans heavy blue.
It’s a sickness unfortunately.
Which is my point.

Nashville has always been blue.

(08-22-2025 05:35 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  Nashville has always been blue.

Its been democrat. Its not prog filth and it sure in the hell isnt Memphis.

Nashville is fine

Nashville will be the Los Angeles of middle of America within 5 years.

(08-22-2025 05:45 PM)450bench Wrote:  Nashville will be the Los Angeles of middle of America within 5 years.

Thankfully, Tennessee is still deep red, but not for long.

(08-22-2025 06:01 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 05:45 PM)450bench Wrote:  Nashville will be the Los Angeles of middle of America within 5 years.

Thankfully, Tennessee is still deep red, but not for long.

Wrong. Tennesssee is safe

(08-22-2025 05:45 PM)450bench Wrote:  Nashville will be the Los Angeles of middle of America within 5 years.

Nah

But Memphis will be Jackson Miss

(08-22-2025 06:04 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 06:01 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 05:45 PM)450bench Wrote:  Nashville will be the Los Angeles of middle of America within 5 years.

Thankfully, Tennessee is still deep red, but not for long.

Wrong. Tennesssee is safe

I was about to tell him that.

(08-22-2025 06:01 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 05:45 PM)450bench Wrote:  Nashville will be the Los Angeles of middle of America within 5 years.

Thankfully, Tennessee is still deep red, but not for long.

It’ll stay red, in spite of Memphis and Nashvegas.

(08-22-2025 06:06 PM)450bench Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 06:01 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 05:45 PM)450bench Wrote:  Nashville will be the Los Angeles of middle of America within 5 years.

Thankfully, Tennessee is still deep red, but not for long.

It’ll stay red, in spite of Memphis and Nashvegas.

The eastern side better play close attention to Chattanooga, Johnson City and Knoxville. They're getting worse as well.

Haven't been to cracker barrel since they served two family members half frozen steak.

The Disastrous Cracker Barrel Rebrand Finally Gets an Explanation and It Will Surprise No One

(08-22-2025 09:39 AM)bill dazzle Wrote:  Cracker Barrel should have polled its customers, asking how the brand could be "refreshed" in a way they (the dedicated customers) would like.

A missed opporturnity.

Woke CEO's and marketing execs don't care about common sense approaches. They know better than their own customers.

(08-22-2025 06:24 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  Haven't been to cracker barrel since they served two family members half frozen steak.

The Disastrous Cracker Barrel Rebrand Finally Gets an Explanation and It Will Surprise No One

Yep. Contrary to popular belief, the left is still winning.

(08-22-2025 09:48 AM)CLTPirate Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 09:34 AM)andybible1995 Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 09:26 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 09:10 AM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 08:59 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  What did they do except remove an old man in a rocking chair off the logo?

Prog filth like you will never understand.

I guess I don’t. Companies update their logos all the time & obviously Cracker Barrel felt the need to do the same. The old man on the porch wasn’t iconic like Col Sanders & the logo was dated. I don’t really care for the update but good lord how thin skinned the MAGAS are. Cracker Barrels sales were flat… their concept is dated… companies that do nothing die. Had they renamed themselves the Barrel and removed the name Cracker then you’d have reason to be upset.

Leftists like you are way more thin skinned than Trump supporters, Marc.

Trump supporters panic every time a gay person is shown in an advertisement.

That's because we have normal genes that provide us with an innate fear of the unnatural. In short, we are afraid of queers. I don't mind admitting that they scare the hell out of me.

(08-22-2025 09:50 AM)CLTPirate Wrote:  Cracker Barrel rebranding is dumb as hell, like half the reason you would go is for their old timey vibe. The food while decent was never something you’d want to go out of your way for.

Truth, the food was always just OK.

(08-22-2025 10:27 AM)CLTPirate Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 10:20 AM)andybible1995 Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 09:48 AM)CLTPirate Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 09:34 AM)andybible1995 Wrote:  

(08-22-2025 09:26 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  I guess I don’t. Companies update their logos all the time & obviously Cracker Barrel felt the need to do the same. The old man on the porch wasn’t iconic like Col Sanders & the logo was dated. I don’t really care for the update but good lord how thin skinned the MAGAS are. Cracker Barrels sales were flat… their concept is dated… companies that do nothing die. Had they renamed themselves the Barrel and removed the name Cracker then you’d have reason to be upset.

Leftists like you are way more thin skinned than Trump supporters, Marc.

Trump supporters panic every time a gay person is shown in an advertisement.

No they don't. They point and laugh at how stupid they are. Just like I'm doing to you right now, and I don't even like Trump.

They do? I wonder why last year my whole social media was full of Trump supporters yelling about how a trans person advertising Budlight or rainbow clothes at Target are the degeneration of American society.

Where was the panic? Or was that just a bit hyperbolic perhaps? By the way, it worked. The yelling I mean.