It gave me a few laughs towards the end of my latest session.

😀

Cracker Barrel had a mascot?

Happy 20,000

you'd think it would be the association between "Cracker" and the white man sitting next to the barrel. Cracker was a derogatory name for white Southern men who were racist. Maybe the new CEO was thinking more about attracting people who aren't MAGAts. They aren't especially known for leaving generous tips.

As an aside, I have a story about something relevant to this. One Thanksgiving I was invited to a house where there was a maga guy who spent about ten minutes telling a story about how he went to a Cracker Barrel and how he ordered a diet Coke but the teenaged waitress brought him a regular Coke and he knew it was a regular Coke and not a diet Coke because he could tell since he was supposedly the expert on discerning a diet Coke from a Coke. He told everyone there about how he chastised her profusely for getting it wrong and not only that but "I left her a dime for a tip." I'm serious when I tell you this story went on (in a very loud voice of course) for ten minutes and at the end he just looked so proud of himself.

To be able to recover from a blow so horrible and shocking, and yet to retain the ability to educate and instruct the slatternly minx who dared to stain his lips with regular Coke, rather than the Diet Coke he had specifically requested!!!

My oldest friend and former housemate's favorite topic of conversation was whining and bitching about her dissatisfaction with her most recent restaurant visit...it was as if, being able to bitch about her dining experiences was the most important thing about her. Pretty pathetic. I love her, but oftentimes, I just don't like her.

plenty of friends I don't like."

But when you've known someone your WHOLE life, it's hard to let them go just because of differences in personality. Otherwise, I've jettisoned plenty of other friends who turned out to be Nazi wannabes.

can have serious consequences and is not trivial.

"I think you made a mistake, I asked for diet", would have takn care of the situation. His behaviour was rude, bullying, bordering on abusive, and he was proud of it. Asshole, period.

People who are not diabetic order diet drinks for many reasons.

Two things can be true at the same time...
the guy's a hateful bully, and serving a sugary drink to someone who asked for sugar-free can be dangerous, can harm someone, and can result in a lawsuit in a worst case scenario.

when dining out. But I would never create a scene like that, even when mistakes have been made. Can a mistake be harmful? Of course. But nothing excuses such boastful, ugly behaviour.

Congrats on the milestone post! Good job with it!

Such a wonderful milestone.
Weeeeeeeeeeee

strength to report this horror to us. I salute you!

The new one is plain. I prefer fancy logos. Here's the old and new:

...If I had seen it without the MAGA commentary, I'd think "Hmmm. Plain." Then I'd get on with my business.

But the MAGA social media posts have tried to tie in all kinds of anti-woke, anti-DEI, anti-LGBTQ, anti- everything that's not Trump.

They got worked up over it, and I am pretty much ambivalent / apathetic.

They refuse to change their logo, and it's their original. I hated when Instagram and Amazon changed theirs. I wish they would go back.