Whenever I talk about Cracker Barrel, I always get a little sentimental and in some cases emotional.
Believe it or not, Cracker Barrel has been the setting or in some cases outright focal point of various moments in my life. My folks divorced when I was six and we would spend summers with my dad. Which usually prompted a drive of several hundred miles and a hotel stay.
This also meant dinner one night and breakfast the following morning. It got to be such a constant thing that my dad and I used to spend the whole trip talking about what we were going to order.
Cracker Barrel was also the last place I ever ate dinner with my mom. A couple of years before she passed away, I was still living close enough to her that we could visit on a regular schedule.
Then one day there was a power outage when it was like a hundred degrees out.
I took Mom to Cracker Barrel because she was getting up there and it was one of the few buildings in town that still had air conditioning. We both had a great time.
That being said, anytime someone changes something on the menu at a restaurant people tend to get up in arms. There have been a lot of places that have ruined themselves by changing the menu, or at least a popular menu item.
When I go to Cracker Barrel, I immediately get sausage. I don’t care what time of day it is, I want to get sausage. It’s the closest I have ever had to my grandmother’s sausage she used to get fresh from a butcher in North Carolina.
I’m sure I am not the only one. However, Cracker Barrel in an attempt to appeal to as many customers as possible has unveiled something they are calling “Impossible Sausage”. It’s basically made of the same stuff that they make the veggie burgers out of.
I tasted it the last time my wife and I ate there while traveling, and while it might not be my cup of tea, I can certainly see where someone might enjoy it.
On the other hand, there are some people that are out there who are absolutely livid at Cracker Barrel.
For whatever reason they believe that somehow Cracker Barrel has decided to take away real sausage and give anyone this fake stuff made of plants and beans or whatever.
I’ve looked into it, and at least for the time being, that doesn’t seem to be the case. It looks like they are just trying to appeal to as many customers as possible and despite my thinking they are insane, vegetarians eat at restaurants to.
However, if they decide to replace the sausage with the fake stuff, I don’t need that woke garbage invading my breakfast.
