Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle
“I don’t blame Cracker Barrel for this sorry state of affairs. The company is a victim of the internet’s endless search for something to be mad about. During L’Affaire Sausage, I pointed out that very few people were actually mad that Cracker Barrel had added a meat substitute to its offerings; copy-hungry journalists had scoured the company’s Facebook page and plucked a few lunatics out of the much larger number of vegetarians thanking the company for catering to their needs. I reminded people that you can always find a few fringe souls on the internet who are angry about anything. I begged them to ignore the shouting, just as they would if people were doing it on a random street corner. Alas, I was shouting into the social media void, because here we are again, trying to turn a struggling restaurant chain into a metaphor for American politics. ” (08/27/25)