/ck/ - Food & Cooking

okay, /ck/
what's the best thing on Cracker Barrel's menu and why is it the Country Fried Steak?

so why did crackers come in barrels in olden days? were boxes not invented yet?

Mods?

As much as I hate that forced meme, yep. Honestly a lot of the decor is nice and it's great to know you're getting dependably good food if you're traveling. Don't go there because they abuse the staff. They're there for life because a fucked up pyramid scheme. They actually pay them with debit cards that can only be cashed out at Walmart or Walgreens.

I don't like the taste of southern hate.

>>11886154
Not surprising

>>11886092
haha le Yikes! anyone got any new shrek memes?

>>11886130
It's the best thing because it's coated in country fry breading, is beef, and is relatively less expensive than less satisfying items on the menu.

>>11886154

How did you learn this? I knew a girl who served there and i never heard a word about that kind of thing. Not doubting you, it just seems odd.

My brother unironically had the rehearsal dinner before his wedding at Cracker Barrel

I've never seen my mother so disappointed

>>11886336
We’ll you were too young to remember being born

>>11886154
>They abuse the staff
My brother's ex had a sister who worked there, she can confirm.

>>11886130
This and the country ham is the only thing I ever get

>>11886277
*snap*
Yep, this one's going in my cringe collection.

>>11886329
>How did you learn this?
Briefly worked there before my health failed and I moved. They're privately owned and take good care of their dedicated workers, but in a very cultist way. They're surprisingly flexible, but some of their business practices are just unacceptable.

I worked here. The place I worked at isn't the best representation of the restaurant though. I live in a shitty small town that's just big enough to have a cracker barrel, so the people employed were some of the most retarded people I've ever had the displeasure of working with. If they weren't retarded, they were stuck in grade school mentally. The way the kept the food stored would have needed somewhat competent staff to keep functional, as in not making people sick. Needless to say people were sick all the time from the food we served. In the hick town as well, there became some cult following where people would show up and stare at me. Also, the wait staff just sat around, and stared at me all day. One was particularly annoying as she looked like peter griffen, and would do dumb shit to get my attention because she had no shame about her stalking. I watched people that were "mentoring me" drop shit on the ground, and put it back. I graduated culinary school, and the only reason I had to work there is because Cracker Barrel in my town is like a 5 star restaurant or something. Other than that it's like McDonalds or burgerking. The staff had no clue how to actually cook shit. Nobody could cook a steak to order, or even without pounding the shit out of it first like they were tenderizing it. One guy actually referred to his "method" as tenderization. The food is good, but overpriced. Also, the risk in how they store shit makes food illness pretty high. Also, you run the risk of some num nut faggot ripping up your ribeye trying to cook it in 7 minutes in order to get his quota that means absolutely noting to them in the grand scheme of things. My experience may be bias, as pretty much anybody stuck in a town with a little over 10k people is inherently retarded for the most part. I live here because I like the outdoors.. hunting and fishing. We got this fake gangsters that walk around wearing blue shirts and red shirts pretending to be gangsters in a hick town.

>>11886457
>people would show up and stare at me.
How the fuck did that start?

>crack her bare roll

>>11886092
>cracker
Keep the racist shit on /b/

>>11886154
This just reeks of tax evasion. You just know they're not paying full payroll taxes. How is the IRS not all over this place?

>>11886329
Dumbass probably didn't sign up for direct deposit

>>11886092
>boomers will defend this

>>11888135
Are you a high school dropout?

>>11888237
They don't serve avocado toast?

>>11888252
No, I don't work at cracker barrel. What kind of self respecting person would accept that kind of shit.

>>11886336
Lol flyover idiots are dumb ass fuck

>>11886092
>formally Jacker Darrell

>>11886154
>They're there for life because a fucked up pyramid scheme.
Unless they are recruiting staff and getting money from that paying them with a prepaid card is not a pyramid scheme. (Poor)People who work and don’t have bank accounts get those.

>>11888252
Nah just varying plates of brown ""savory"" flyover slop

>Every person in the south over the age of 30 loves Cracker Barrel and only ever wants to eat there when they go out

what the fuck is wrong with southern boomers

>>11886229
xD

My family isn't white so we never ate here. What the fuck is the deal with this place and why is it on /ck/ like every week.

>>11888506
Move along, no purpledrank so it's not for your kind

>>11888416
It used to have a certain unique charm to it before applebees, chilis, outback etc etc all became nationwide. It was considered a decent but affordable place to sit down and have a nice meal. Like most boomer shit (football, cable tv, variable rate loans) it was of course a shitty empty scam at the core and will die out in our lifetime

>Cracker Barrel hour away from Detroit
>quiet, tasty and hot food, comfy
>Cracker Barrel closer to Detroit
>always crowded, run-down, cold shitty food, dirty, random loiterers
>tfw still go to the shitty one sometimes because I like the store

>>11886130
Pancakes with fruit topping

>>11888617
>It was considered a decent but affordable place to sit down and have a nice meal. Like most boomer shit (football, cable tv, variable rate loans) it was of course a shitty empty scam at the core and will die out in our lifetime

>>11888617
There's nothing wrong with a variable rate loan if you know you're not going to keep the goods past the fixed rate time period or your principal is going to be so low at that point that the higher interest rates are offset by the initial savings. ARMs only got a bad rap because financially illiterate flyovers used them to buy property well beyond their means, paid the minimum (if that), and then discovered that math isn't actually a chinese hoax

>>11888685
Did your daddy hurt you?

>>11888700
Ah yes the great Iowa housing crash of 2008

>>11888700
>there's nothing wrong with a variable rate loan
>it's your fault for having zero leverage and not reading the fine print

>>11888719
It's not the crash that hurts, it's the part when the recovery never happens

>>11888727
Kinda, yeah. In the subprime bubble it was also the fault of predatory lenders for explicitly targeting financially illiterate buyers who had no business buying a house in the first place, let alone those kinds of houses. But the problem there was inadequate vetting of loan customers, which can happen with a fixed rate loan just as easily. It's just that an ARM traditionally offers a lower intro rate and therefore was the obvious choice for someone looking to entice an unqualified buyer with artificial numbers.

If your finances are in order ARMs are a totally legitimate to save money on interest. You pay much more in interest in the first half of the payoff period than in the second. If (as has been the case more recently) the ARM's intro rate isn't substantially different from the traditional fixed rate and you're uncertain about the future you might as well go for the fixed rate. But if your kids are going to be big enough that you have to move at a certain point anyway, the ARM saves you money and has no downside.

>>11886457
>We got this fake gangsters that walk around wearing blue shirts and red shirts pretending to be gangsters in a hick town.

Kek

>>11886831
When they found out a guy that doesn't look like typical small town trash is forced to stand in front of a bunch of 2 tooth yokels because your very essence allures them. I wish I was joking. I kept track all the time of when I started working there, and a few months later about a few times a week on google. You know where they show how many people are at a place, and if it's busy. Even the manager had a meeting and said since the past month (when I started) "we went from average, to the highest yielding store in our region" After I left I noticed that the business in the place had been cut in half. It's a shit town though everybody knows everybody. I'm like like a legend here. Don't get me wrong im not really shit, but to these fucking mutant looking ass motherfuckers im like a demigod.

>>11886130
For me, it's the country fried steak with fried okra and double turnip greens.

>>11888714
Did yours? I just thought his post was hilarious for its excessive bluntness, but maybe closer to the truth than one might think.

I won't miss cable TV. There's one show from cable TV I watch and each episode is on streaming 3 days after. I don't care about American football, the booze and junkfood around it is more fun than the game. Aforementioned chain restaurants are garbage even by chain standards. FYI I'm sitting on the fence between GenX and Millennial, not Zoomer. It's just that Boomer culture is suicidal.

>>11888735
How do you recover from a crash that's never happened

>>11886092
Half the time they do a decent show, and the other half the time it's worse than cafeteria food with four times the wait. When done right, their country fried steaks or catfish sandwiches are good, and starch on starch on starch nigguh, with dumplings, mashed potatoes, and mac n' cheese.

I stop there once in awhile for breakfast. $6 gets you a decent plate of Biscuits & Gravy with Bacon and a tall glass of nice pulpy OJ. Put enough Pepper in that gravy to give taste and it's well enough. Better than 75% of the breakfast stops on the road.

>>11886130
I don't understand why anyone eats breaded steak

>>11888596
LMAO when white fatasses think their food is any better than nigger greaseslop. don't think you're any better than the purpledranking nogs with your HFCS $5 sweet tea jugs

>>11889099
The Black Eyed Pea's chicken-fried chicken is where it's at.

>>11890169
okay nigger

>>11886130
No joke, I only ever get one item when I go to Cracker Barrel. Grilled catfish platter with fried okra, mashed potatoes, and green beans/lima beans. Get fucked breakfast menu.

>>11886130
Meatloaf is pretty good.

>>11886092
Cracker Barrel rules, go to hell OP

>>11890392
The Black Eye Pea still exists?

How do you beat that game on the table bros

Been trying for years and can't do it

>>11886092
I see some places still haven't gotten the memo that their hate filled confederate flags are extinct.

>>11888135
I guarantee a huge corporation like Cracker Barrel is not cheating on its payroll taxes. Payroll taxes are really hard to cheat on and continually get away with.

>>11886457
Harlingen?

>>11886336
Fucking based

>>11890807
its not that bad

I honestly have no problems with Cracker Barrel.. I actually kind of enjoy it, although I haven't been there in years. I just have nice memories of my grandma taking me there for breakfast, or going for lunch or dinner and getting some grilled chicken tenders with those glorious fried country apples. I mean, it wasn't the greatest food you can get, but it wasn't terrible. I also liked walking around the shop and making those dumb parrots say cuss words and shit like that. I also have fond memories of playing checkers with my brother or friends at that table they have by the fire place.

Who /FridayFishFry/ here?

>>11890818
That's what people from terrible towns say.

>>11888899

Checked. Double checked. Checked again.

>>11890858
Went to that one like 2 weeks ago seemed just as consistently average like others I've been to in the state

>>11890788
yes sir it does. theres one left in florida and the rest are in tx, tn or co. i used to love going there when i was a kid and they had them in ft lauderdale. the deep fried corn on the cob was the shit

>>11890792
brainlet
put the hole on the side, and work generally from the outside in

Hey now...

The Big Country Breakfast with Gravy

I always used to call it crapper barrel since I'm clever like that.

>>11886336
Should have had it at McDonalds just to fuck with the guests, you, and especially your mom.

You guys are just mad because they refused to hire gays for a while.

>>11888899
this is a strange post and I don't know how to respond, it sounds really awkward to me

>>11891481
It's important to remain weary of the odd drunkposter on /ck/

>>11891273
Feels guy ugly af.
Feels girl is hot.

>>11886336
My friend did the same. Although I can understand, since he doesn't have a ton of money.

>>11891481
welcome to being me

>>11888899
So this is where y'all fucked off to