CRACKIER
I uploaded the Cracker Barrel logo to MidJourney and said “riff on this.” I was curious to see what it would make of “riff on.”
The other three were just the word “CRECKER” and “CRACKIER” and a picture of a bearded oldtimer eating a cookie with a caption that looks like “BRICKR RDRR.”
Grok just gave me variations of the actual logo in trippy colors.
My old mother used to love her a Cracker Barrel. Used to get a bowl of beans with a side dish of chopped onions. After I moved to Yankeeland, I got a hankering for a bowl of beans one day and had to call her up and ask what exactly kind of beans were those…? Navy beans, I think.
I understand the logo wasn’t all that went wrong lately.
Posted: August 28th, 2025 under personal.
Comments: 3
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Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: August 28, 2025, 6:51 pm
I’ve always been of the opinion that every town with a CB, has one or two better home/southern cooking restaurants.
But they just best never mess with their greens.
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: August 28, 2025, 7:31 pm
The school cafeteria of my childhood served pinto beans and mustard greens as a meal (alas—no cornbread, just white bread). And there was a bottle of vinegar & green peppers hot sauce on every table in the cafeteria. There was a bottle of green pepper sauce on every table in the state. But they’ve all disappeared, replaced with red pepper sauces. I’m not a huge fan of hot sauces, but you’ve got to sprinkle green pepper sauce on mustard greens. It’s written down somewhere.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: August 29, 2025, 1:12 am
Grits! With butter!
Or greens with bacon!
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