Cracker Barrel’s CEO faces an uphill battle to revive the restaurant chain after a blunt admission sent stock prices plummeting 20 per cent.

  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “Cracker Barrel” refers to 19th century rations. The Cracker was a shelf stable hard-tack biscuit and they were packed into barrels or boxes for transport. You would have encountered hard tack in the military or as a poverty food.

    There is a story about General Lee and Jackson meeting before Chancellorsville while sat on these boxes called the “Crackerbox Meeting”

    I don’t think the name is related to the anti-white pejorative.