When I go to Cracker Barrel, I am focused on stuffing as much chicken pot pie or meat loaf as possible into my face. But customer Alfonso Robinson, on a recent trip, was apparently more concerned with finding something, anything, to be offended by. And of course he found it — in the form of a cord hanging from the ceiling.
Robinson, deciding that the cord had a sinister look to it, sent out an outraged tweet declaring that “someone at Cracker Barrel” needs to “explain” why there were “nooses” adorning the restaurant. The answer is that there weren’t any nooses. The “noose” was in fact the cord of an antique soldering iron, which had been there, says the store manager, for 22 years.
Over the course of two decades countless customers came and went, and none of them, so far as we know, found any reason to be concerned about the soldering iron display. I suppose it is possible that thousands of other Cracker Barrel patrons have been traumatized by the cord as well, and perhaps by any number of other items in the gift shop, but have chosen to suffer in dignified silence. However, I feel safe in assuming that Robinson was the first to raise this objection. But one objection, as we have seen, is all it takes these days.
Cracker Barrel apologized profusely, conceding that the object “should not have been displayed.” But a mere apology was not enough to heal the wounds caused by the illicit cord. The next day, the store manager met with local activists and took them on a tour of the facility so that they could point out any other innocuous items that might offend them. No word on whether the activists decided to be offended by the triangular peg game that sits at every table. Pegs and triangles can be rather volatile objects, we must admit.
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Robinson, deciding that the cord had a sinister look to it, sent out an outraged tweet declaring that “someone at Cracker Barrel” needs to “explain” why there were “nooses” adorning the restaurant. The answer is that there weren’t any nooses. The “noose” was in fact the cord of an antique soldering iron, which had been there, says the store manager, for 22 years.
Over the course of two decades countless customers came and went, and none of them, so far as we know, found any reason to be concerned about the soldering iron display. I suppose it is possible that thousands of other Cracker Barrel patrons have been traumatized by the cord as well, and perhaps by any number of other items in the gift shop, but have chosen to suffer in dignified silence. However, I feel safe in assuming that Robinson was the first to raise this objection. But one objection, as we have seen, is all it takes these days.
Cracker Barrel apologized profusely, conceding that the object “should not have been displayed.” But a mere apology was not enough to heal the wounds caused by the illicit cord. The next day, the store manager met with local activists and took them on a tour of the facility so that they could point out any other innocuous items that might offend them. No word on whether the activists decided to be offended by the triangular peg game that sits at every table. Pegs and triangles can be rather volatile objects, we must admit.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/wals...J2vwDacbHrhnSteKmJift5KVP29ZtpWcLRSGfCHSEjB0E
