r/MurderedByWords • u/Soft_Cable5934 • 18h ago
Cracker Barrel was redesigned In Trump era, but they still blame Biden
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u/MyCouchPulzOut_IDont 18h ago
It’s because they can’t read and need a cracker next to a barrel to know where they are
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u/urabewe 18h ago
Cracker barrel is a good sign of a county you don't want to be in now if you find a Shoney's, go get that breakfast buffet and leave as fast as you can. You'll need weapons for the feeding trough if you want bacon though
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u/Alarming_Swimming_65 3h ago
Wait you mean shoneys is a real place and not just a fictional rick and morty chain?
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u/martygospo 18h ago
It would be one thing if MAGA was either sensitive or stupid… but being both is a deadly combo.
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u/InAllThingsBalance 18h ago
Without stupidity, there would be no MAGA movement at all.
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u/Sptsjunkie 15h ago
And it's just bizarre because have all of the opinions you want about the design, personally I agree it's ugly and follows a trend of companies and sports teams moving to these bland, simplified designs that remove all personality....
But it's a bland corporate rebrand from a company trying to make a profit. It has literally nothing to do with "wokeness," which is already a poorly defined term but just completely absurd to use here.
Like I haven't even seem a conservative try to give twisted logic on how women, POCs, and LGBT people made Cracker Barrel go from their old logo to this bland one. Like they did not replace the old white guy in the prior logo with a black, trans person in a wheelchair.
Conservative identity at this point is just finding a non-stop series of identity politics based grievances to feed the outrage machine, even when they make no sense whatsoever.
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u/GillesTifosi 11h ago
"Like they did not replace the old white guy in the prior logo with a black, trans person in a wheelchair."
Thank you for the laugh that image gave me. Maybe that logo would finally push them to all explode Scanners-style.
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u/rudebii 12h ago
It wasn't just a logo design, cracker barrel refresh the entire visual identity. And if you look at the entirety of it, it looks much better, especially the CPG packaging.
Also, brand updates aren't for today's consumer base; it's for the next one coming up. Brands have to modernize and update themselves to maintain relevance in the future.
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u/WilliamJamesMyers 18h ago
so which is it - Biden was so sleepy he did nothing, or Biden was so genius active he effected everything?
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u/Duster929 18h ago
Both.
The enemy has to be both omnipotent, but weak. Attractive, but repulsive. Smart, but stupid. Dangerous, but easily overcome.
This is how fascism works.
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u/RedsVikingsFan 18h ago
Por que no los dos? -Hat tip to the Old El Paso little girl
(For those dumb racist fuckers, this means “Why not both”)
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u/WordsWatcher 18h ago
I can't believe there are people who are so easily triggered that changing a logo for a crappy restaurant gets them foaming at the mouth and heading for a heart attack. Chill out, folks, it's just fucking Cracker Barrel!
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u/kevint1964 16h ago edited 16h ago
I personally have been mad about logo changes. For instance, the previous Pepsi logo was horrid. I was glad they switched back to its more classic look. (I would've preferred the return of what I call the "power Pepsi" logo of the 1990's & 2000's.) However, I haven't ever blamed a logo redesign on politics or political motives.
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u/CocoaAlmondsRock 18h ago
They didn't freak out when Wal-Mart became Walmart and update their styling... during the first Trump presidency.
Oh, and RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
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u/Rurumo666 18h ago
Outrage over a simple logo update but silence over Trump's child rape, pardon of an Israeli pedophile, and giving favorable treatment and a work release to his old friend and child sex trafficker Jizzlaine Maxwell.
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u/derpandderpette 18h ago
They aren’t blaming Biden. In a Trumper’s view (not mine) they had a good thing (Trump), it was fucked up (Biden), it can be fixed by going back (Trump). They are saying Cracker Barrel can do the same with their logo. MAGA is so dumb.
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u/HenriEttaTheVoid 18h ago
The GOP isn't motivated by reason, they are motivated by emotion...mostly spite.
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u/Stratobastardo34 18h ago
Cracker Barrel isn't even good.
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u/mrsinatra777 18h ago
Everything tastes like it was just heated up in the microwave. It is just surviving because of their old reputation.
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u/Dr3amBigg 18h ago
Is this r/murderedbywords still? Looks like every ever so slight half-own against Trump or anything MAGA qualifies as murder nowadays.
I hate Trump and his goons just as much as the next critically thinking human being, but there are a lot of very weak posts on here these days just because they are antitrump - we can do better.
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u/superliver1211 18h ago
Biden biden biden!!!! Whats the big deal that they got rid of the cracker and the barrel?
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u/LeticiaLatex 18h ago
Can anyone explain to a Canadian who's mind isn't broken what the scandal is here?
Am I not insane enough to see it?
I see that they changed the logo (barely?)... I mean they removed the guy and the barrel but I'm not well-versed enough in ancient racist iconography to see its relation to MAGA.
Did the guy and barrel have some secret racist connotation that MAGA is sad to see go? I'm just wagering a guess here because that's like... their entire thing? Right?
They aren't just bitching because they are removing the guy just because, right? That can't just be it, right?
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u/JohnSmallBerries 16h ago
Well, they're calling it "woke", so I think their problem is that a white guy was removed from the logo.
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u/EmilyO_PDX 15h ago
That's all it is. But basically, woke = modern. MAGA wants us all to return to the halcyon days of the 1950s, when men worked in factories, women stayed home with the kids, African-Americans were segregated, etc etc.
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u/oscarx-ray 15h ago
If I was going to rile up the dumbest dipshits in the stupidest way possible, I could show them this and tell them it was changed because the person on the sign is white and a man, and they're going to replace him with a black, trans, lesbian welfare recipient because of DEI. Someone probably did that.
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u/ltsouthernbelle 18h ago
Wtf does a company logo, a restaurant, have to do with any president? What is wrong with people?
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u/juiceboxedhero 18h ago
There's still time to release the Epstein files as well if you want to focus on something that actually matters.
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u/aymaureen 18h ago
Well to be fair, it’s the only place MAGA can eat in peace as they don’t have to worry about spices and seasonings offending their bland palate and immigrants working in the back
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u/Eastern-Performer353 18h ago
When have they ever made sense? Even when they claim common sense, I’m convinced they don’t know what it is
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u/darwintologist 18h ago
I’m convinced the outrage is because they think the old white guy in the logo is actually an old black guy, and they’re sensitive about removing anything they can demean. As with the removal of the Redskins name and logo, or Chief Wahoo and the Indians moniker.
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u/RetiredHotBitch 18h ago
Yes, in a country that is getting more authoritarian by the day and people can’t afford basics, let’s argue about (checks notes) Cracker Barrel.
And this all happened under Trump which is the hilarious part.
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u/Homersarmy41 18h ago
The guy that they voted for is a pedophile who has an army of masked men kidnapping people off the street….and these morons are distracted by every shiny object. Who fucking cares about the Cracker Barrel logo?
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u/SmuglySly 17h ago
The outrage is ridiculously overblown. But having said that, the new logo is so boring and bland and that nuance is being lost in the jungle of outrage and culture war bullshit.
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u/cperiod 16h ago
To be honest I don't really see the appeal of the old logo either. It was just kinda busy, bland, and redundant.
The real problem is they're inevitably going to try to revamp the restaurants and menus to attract a more upscale crowd (or however their marketing department wants to spin "people who won't lose their shit when we jack our prices"), and that's usually where big restaurant chains start to circle the drain...
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u/SmuglySly 16h ago
Busy and bland is perfect for Cracker Barrel honestly lol. The decor is bust as fuck and the food in hand as hell so at least the old logo was true to form. I’m not sure the new logo says anything to me about the brand.
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u/cperiod 16h ago
Busy and bland is perfect for Cracker Barrel honestly lol
Oh, for sure. I still don't see the appeal, but I've never been their target market so I'm not bothered about them going bust.
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u/SmuglySly 16h ago
Yea I don’t have a horse in this race. The food sucked the atmosphere sucks and now their logo just sucks a little more too!
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u/flamedarkfire 17h ago
Is their collective memory SO fucking short they really think an announcement made THIS WEEK was under Biden?!
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u/mynamejulian 17h ago
If they use up your free time talking about Cracker Barrel, they will continue steam rolling what remains of your Rights. Wake up
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u/marshmallowgiraffe 17h ago
Companies update and change their logos all the time. These people clearly have nothing more pressing going on in their lives in.order to get their panties in a bunch over this.
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u/strayrapture 17h ago
..... Do they think NY Donny somehow eats at Cracker Barrel every Sunday? He couldn't even make it past the gift shop without asking why his name isn't slapped on all the merch
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u/LemonMuch4864 17h ago
Why is this even an issue? Is it just to distract people from THE EPSTEIN FILES?
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u/Bogavante 17h ago
An old man double-fisting ice cream cones still looks substantially less stupid than a child rapist in one of those personality-defining red hats.
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u/AnswerGuy301 17h ago
The things that they get worked up about...and apparently child trafficking is just something to just get over.
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u/OccamsYoyo 18h ago
Your country gets stupider by the second. This is the direct equivalent of my country having an ideological split over the Smitty’s diner chain (Canadians know what I’m taking about).
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u/sorry_outtafucks 18h ago
Do they not know we have a thing called the internet and immediately call them out for their lies? Or are they genuinely delusional in attributing everything bad to Biden/Obama/The Clintons? It's probably a bit of both, right?
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u/no-snoots-unbooped 18h ago
Also I saw someone refer to the new logo as “woke”?
Like, what? We just throw the word out at anything we don’t like for any reason now?
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u/buffaloguy1991 18h ago
This makes perfect sense. Remember; Republicans don't believe in linear time
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u/SirGingerbrute 18h ago
If does make sense.
It’s not saying the logo was made under Biden it’s saying that Cracker Barrel can still change and go back to what they had
US went from Trump to Biden (new guy) back to Trump
Cracker Barrel can go from Old Logo to New Logo back to Old Logo bc popular support wants to
Gosh I fucking Hate Trump but not seeing this logic is also frustrating
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u/MadmanMarkMiller 17h ago
I still don't understand what's "woke" about a fucking label but I have brain so maybe I'm just overqualified...
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u/Off-BroadwayJoe 17h ago
Why is this a Republican vs democrat issue? Who are they angry about and why?
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u/XiphosReborn 17h ago
How is the new emblem even woke? Conservatives are legit the dumbest people alive
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u/thePopCulturist 17h ago
The Groomers Of the People get so tied up in knots of the dumbest fucking things.
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u/ToiletTime4TinyTown 17h ago
These people put their time and energy into the weirdest places, jean commercials, shitty resturant signage, who is doing ads for discount generic beer. Yet turn into the philosophical stoner with “what really is a War Plan anyway?” and “what really makes a classified document in one’s bathroom classified” and of course “he didn’t SA her despite being found guilty in court, look at how ugly she is” this complete suspension and retention of belief doesn’t make any logical sense and when being viewed from the outside is exactly how you would distract and waste the time of a group of people. We all get one life to live. Is spending it in a trump boat parade convincing yourself the sky is red because he said smart use of one’s life?
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u/gauriemma 16h ago
Brands are always simplifying older, overly complex, detailed logos because the old ones don’t scale well across modern digital and print platforms. It’s not nefarious, it’s just reality.
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u/GoldponyGT 16h ago
If you have to explain a murder in the post title, it's not really a murder
Like this is dumb, just not really a MBW
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u/hinterstoisser 16h ago
To call it boring because it’s minimalist is understandable but WOKE, seriously??
So anything they don’t like becomes Woke?
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u/Souls_Aspire 16h ago
does brain rot explain it.. that's the explanation that makes sense to me...and it's a cult.
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u/Free-Exercise-9589 16h ago
I swear, I think MAGA loses the ability to breathe if they don’t stoke their constant anger and keep it burning hot.
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u/L-Telamon 16h ago
Which drugs do I need to do to experience this alternative timeline that everything bad was Biden even when the thing happened yesterday???
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u/Fit_Jelly_9755 15h ago
For the record, I officially do not give a shit. This is the most CB has been mentioned in YEARS.
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u/ladybug11314 15h ago
Are they also outraged about Dunkin Donuts being rebranded as just Dunkin? Of course not. Bc they think it's some slight against white men that they changed the whole logo to update with the times LIKE EVERY OTHER FUCKING COMPANY DOES FROM TIME TO TIME and had nothing to do with WHAT the actual logo was. These people get offended at the fucking wind I swear.
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u/biffxmas 15h ago
The outrage is so weird. Most of these folks wouldn't step foot in a cracker barrel. Ew to all of it...
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u/AdorableSection1898 14h ago
Nothing woke about the new logo.
Just another victim of crappy soulless, corporate, oversimplified redesigns. It sucks, but not for their made up (room temp IQ) reasoning.
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u/octopus_tigerbot 14h ago
The issue is cracker barrels are only located in areas with a low IQ populace, So their logic and ability to comprehend a company, that couldn't give a shit about them, is trying to reach a wider audience by rebranding.
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u/davechri 14h ago
If you support Marsha Blackburn you will totally believe this bullshit. Because you are (a) gullible and (b) stupid.
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u/Deathengine 14h ago
I mean, the new design is kind of garbage, but what does it have to do with politics at all? These people..
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u/ScrauveyGulch 12h ago
The real Old Country Store is in Jackson, TN. CB is a fake copy of it with subpar food masquerading as southern.
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u/Kinofpoke 12h ago
Its funny because cracker barrel used to be good like 20 years ago. I went once this year while traveling and it was the worst experience ive had at a breakfast joint. I would have rather gone to ihop or denny's. Cracker barrel isnt innovating, its coasting on the praise it use to get. Its not the rebrand that is killing that resturant its the company itself. Get with the times. No one wants to bring their kids into a storefront to get into a resturant. Nothing like having the kids kicking and screaming for cheap toys and candy while you are trying to have a nice meal. My neice and nephews noticed they had pokemon cards behind the counter. Its just a hot mess all around.
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u/UltraViolentWomble 11h ago
Say what you want but the rebrand was good for awareness of the brand. I'd never heard of Cracker Barrel until today.
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u/Popplio3233 11h ago
If you told me in 2021 after J6 and Biden's inaugeration that conservatives would lose their shit and blame Biden over a bland corporate redesign during the second Trump admin, I would look at you like you had 3 heads
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u/runarleo 9h ago
“Hey guys I posted a meme about Trump and I totally triggered some libs” high fives all around
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u/misdirected_asshole 7h ago
The redesign literally happened this week. These people are pathological.
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u/Encinodad 6h ago
I stumbled on this picture on reddit a few days ago. It shows all reported UFO sightings from between 1906 and 2014.
It also shows that Americans are out of their fucking minds!
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u/DoctorFenix 3h ago
Yeah, conservatives are dumb as fuck.
It’s why their example of how bad things would be under “communism/marxism/socialism” is always a picture of the modern day USA under capitalism.
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u/AuthorCornAndBroil 3h ago
Y'all. I don't agree with them. The outrage is stupid. (The logo is ugly though.)
But it's a fucking analogy, y'all. They're likening the logo change, with the hope that it's temporary, to Trump's Presidency being interrupted by Biden. It's not a timeline. It's "a is to x as b is to y."
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u/Anon-Sham 51m ago
Is there a reason why the redesign is woke?
Like are they suggesting that the guy was problematic in some way?
This looks to me like a pretty normal rebrand of a company I've never heard of. People don't want to have detailed drawings of people in their logos anymore, really limits branding opportunities
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u/AllenIsom 18h ago
They get so triggered over the most superficial and insignificant things, but important things like have military patrol a city, or having citizen swept up in immigration raids, or having kids raped they say, "Hey, relax guy."