Our way of life (eating watery grits while staring at a rusty washboard hung up next to an old Texaco sign) is under attack! Cracker Barrel — the Tennessee-based chain restaurant famous for its kitschy old general-store aesthetic, rocking chairs out front, and convenient placement next to highway off-ramps — has become the latest brand to undergo complete self-immolation in a misguided grasp at streamlined modernity. As a result, it has pretty much pissed off the entire country in the process. Conservatives are up in arms saying that this spells the destruction of traditional (read: straight, white) culture at the hands of corporate woke. Normal people just find the whole brand overhaul ugly and dreary and cheap-looking. Is this moment a rare point of unity or yet another culture-war news

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