Somewhere in Tallahassee, at the turn of the millennia, a young Byron Donalds stood in the parking lot of his local Cracker Barrel — then his place of employment — and contemplated the man atop the wood-and-whimsy pancake palace. It was in that moment, staring into the gold and brown face helming the performatively old-timey interstate eatery, that a future congressman decided to give himself to Christ.

That may not be exactly how it happened, but Donalds came forward with his story of religious epiphany in a Cracker Barrel parking lot amid MAGA outrage over the chain restaurant’s decision to change its logo, removing the image of “Uncle Herschel” and his barrel.

“In college, I worked at @CrackerBarrel in Tallahassee. I even gave my life to Christ in their parking lot,” he wrote .

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