Starbucks or Cracker Barrel?
By donar | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Cartoons, Democrats, Political Graffiti
After winning in Kentucky, I realized that Hillary has taken all the states that Cracker Barrel dominates. For those of you unfortunate not to have a dining experience at Cracker Barrel, it’s a good ol’ fashion country restaurant that blue collar, good ol’ folk eat at. I love the pancakes! I remember Cracker Barrel when we took family trips from Michigan down to Florida, and when you hit southern Ohio, that’s when you would see the Cracker Barrel signs…not to mention Waffle House, but I won’t go there.Â
So this leads us to the Starbucks crowd vs. the Cracker Barrel crowd. Now I’m certain if you took a scientific poll I bet my money that 99.9 percent of the patrons at Cracker Barrel would NOT vote for Barack. Starbucks is making inroads in some of these rural places, but only near the interstates. So if Barack wants to win these swing states he better start campaigning at Cracker Barrel…NOT Waffle House! If there is one word you don’t want to be associated with it is “waffle”!
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May 21st, 2008 at 9:07 am
I’m in that 0.01% that enjoys Cracker Barrel and voted for Obama
May 21st, 2008 at 12:06 pm
do you know anything about cracker barrel? I don’t care what their food is like I won’t eat there.
from wikipedia:
In 1991, Cracker Barrel instituted a policy requiring employees to display “normal heterosexual values which have been the foundation of families in our society.” According to the text of Understanding and Managing Diversity, 17 workers were fired because they admitted or were assumed to be gay after the first few months that the policy was created. The company refused to change their policy in the face of protest demonstrations by gay rights groups. However, in 2002, the company’s stockholders, in a proxy vote of historic proportion, voted 58% to rescind the practice after 10 years of efforts by the New York City Employees Retirement System, a major shareholder. While a formal shareholder vote was never taken, immediately after that, the board of directors added sexual orientation to the company’s nondiscrimination policy.
In the early 2000s and again in 2006, Cracker Barrel faced accusations including a pattern of racial discrimination[1] in its treatment of customers. After national press attention to these accusations, the company announced explicit policies intended to address the charges, and the most prominent critics have not repeated their criticisms, but still they did end up paying $2 million for race and sexual harassment at three Illinois restaurants [1]. Stores now display a sign in their front foyer clarifying this policy, as has become the policy after a similar incident involving Denny’s restaurants.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I can’t stand either of them — does that mean I have to vote for McCain?
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:17 am
I love both Starbucks and Cracker Barrel. I am glad to live in a region where you can see a Starbucks next door to a Cracker Barrel. Ebony and Ivory, together in harmony.
With that said, I probably won’t vote for either of them, but I would vote for a random street bum over McCain.
FJH
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