How can there be such a thing as a Cracker Barrel flamewar?

[jpgray]

How!?!!?!!! This is the world I used to think I lived in:

Person 1: Fuck cracker barrel.
Person 2: I like cracker barrel!
Person 1: They have a history of discriminatory policies.
Person 2: Okay, I will take that into account in the future. Thanks.
Person 1: No, thank -you-. Lovely weather, isn't it?
Person 2: Why no, it's like Satan's asshole out there. But thanks again as well in addition to your last aforementioned thanks!

[Midlodemocrat]

1. All I wanted to do was spread a little love about the chicken pot pie.

and look what happened. :cry:

[Beer Snob-50]

6. just to let you know...

didn't care for the chicken pot pie when i tried it there. now, i need a note from my cardiologist before i go into a place like that!

[Midlodemocrat]

23. When my husband was in the hospital back in June,

a friend of mine made us chicken pot pie, something I had never eaten before. It was delicious, so since he loves Cracker Barrel and I am a good wife trying to help his recuperation, we go on Wednesdays for the pot pie. I think it is really good.

[Beer Snob-50]

26. I used to eat homemade pot pie

and loved that. have not had it in years however.

[tigereye]

28. I like chicken pot pie, too Midlo

[Zomby Woof]

35. I warned you!

:P

[Midlodemocrat]

56. But did I listen?

No. And look at what that innocent little thread has wrought. :P

[Zomby Woof]

59. Innocent my ass!

You KNEW exactly what you were doing. :P

You are influenced by that evil matcom. :spank:

[Midlodemocrat]

71. Actually, I thought everyone knew that those lawsuits had been

settled and that they were independent. Silly me. :P

And, I stand by what I said. Their chicken pot pie is fantastic!! :bounce:

[Zomby Woof]

77. Some of us have LIVES beyond DU

And it's easy to miss those stories in the newspapers. :-)

[Midlodemocrat]

81. Oh, I know. I figured, if I knew, everyone knew.

I'm the last to know anything. :hi:

[Zomby Woof]

83. You're mostly right

I know EVERYTHING else. Except that. :evilgrin:

:hi: Thanks for the kind words in that other thread. :hug:

[SOteric]

2. Dude.

This lot can start a flamewar on any topic, any time. It's a gift.

[billyskank]

13. We aim to please

:7

[Sugar Smack]

3. I see your point. Cracker Barrel- as a topic- doesn't come close to

the visciousness and explosive nature of, say, the Spaghetti Wars.

Do we break the spaghetti before putting it in the pot or don't we? I'd sooner enter the 9th circle of GD than I would flirt dangerously with a spaghetti thread. :scared:

[JVS]

5. Breaking spaghetti! WTF is wrong with some people?

You don't break spaghetti.

[Misunderestimator]

7. I break spaghetti.

:P

[dolo amber]

8. Anti-semite

:grr:

[asthmaticeog]

36. Um, *I* break spaghetti. Does that make me self-loathing?

:mad:

[Magrittes Pipe]

40. I think it just makes you a philistine.

:eyes:

[asthmaticeog]

41. But what *you* think so rarely intersects with my giveafucks.

:shrug:

[Magrittes Pipe]

44. It's not what *I* think.

It is a statement of fact.

[asthmaticeog]

47. You *said* it was what you thought.

Right in the header of your post. Dipshit.

[Magrittes Pipe]

48. You are using things I actually said against me.

Your reliance on "facts" and "logic" outs you as a member of the nefarious Ohio Cabal.



:popcorn:

[asthmaticeog]

85. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

[JVS]

63. And evil!

[Xipe Totec]

66. Anti-semolina, actually..

:evilgrin:

[Sugar Smack]

11. NOOO! Don't go down that dark path!!

Or I'll despair of your ever being saved! What can we do to help?

:o

[Misunderestimator]

12. Oh, I hardly ever cook anyway.

:D

[tigereye]

29. it's more fun for kids to eat spaghetti when it's longer

more entertaining. ;)

[Misunderestimator]

30. I prefer to make it less entertaining and less messy.

I'm not too keen on cleaning tomato sauce off the upholstered chairs. :)

[tigereye]

34. but that's half the fun!

actually, my son seldom hurled food around at that stage, but I'm very sentimental about the "face covered with spaghetti" pix.

a friend of mine used to run a daycare and she called mealtimes for the kids "dinner theatre," for a variety of reasons. ;)

[Misunderestimator]

37. I found a blueberry in the middle of our living room sofa...

the cat having found it on the floor after dinner the day before. Not so much hurled as dropped accidentally. I'll do what I have to do to limit the damage... if it means breaking spaghetti, it means breaking spaghetti. :)

[tigereye]

91. he he

good luck. The things I've found in pockets and in the dryer and under the couch.... ;)

[Misunderestimator]

95. Yeah... I'm sure I have lots of surprises awaiting me...

:D But it's worth it. I gave up on worrying about the leather furniture long ago.

Speaking about stuff under the couch... I find at least a dozen playmobil things (helmuts, cars, people) under the couch everytime I clean... mainly from the cat stealing them and batting them under there though. :)

[Midlodemocrat]

98. Are you kidding? I BOUGHT leather furniture

because I figured it would be the hardiest with these asshats. So far, so good.


:bounce:

[Misunderestimator]

99. Well cool... Then I've got a head start on him.

:bounce:

[Sugar Smack]

50. Yes, "fun" is a large fraction of the importance of nonbroken spaghetti

but then there are the physics of sauce adherence to a forkful of spaghetti. For example, my father argues (weakly, IMO) that there is MORE sauce adherence to broken spaghetti because it also winds up covering the numerous broken ends. My argument, I supsect, pulverizes his:

Longer spaghetti does a much better job in gripping the sauce on a fork and integrate it into the forkful. For example, the whole strands are fewer on the fork but can neatly capture sauce into a forkful when wound and overlapped many times, as opposed to the broken strands which tend to "fling" sauce outward.

Thank you for recognizing this imporatant matter. :pals:

[Bunny]

57. Holy crap Sugar Smack!

You've used the laws of gravity and physics to settle the spaghetti controversy, once and for all. How do I go about recommending you for the Nobel Prize?

;)

[Sugar Smack]

74. Bunny, I thank you!! If spaghetti philosopy was a salable skill,

I may have an inkling of a chance to prosper in this dog-eat-dog world. That you would appreciate it with such generosity and grace gives me hope.

You're too kind, about the Nobel Prize. I've never won anything but a "Like a Virgin" t-shirt from a lip-synching contest.

;) ;)

[Bunny]

84. Okay, I looked up the Nobel Prize thing. I don't believe I am

qualified to nominate you, since I do not hold an advanced degree in anything, I am not distinguished or esteemed in any way, and I am not Swedish. But if any of that would change, I will definitely be putting your name in the ring!

http://nobelprize.org/contact/faq/index.html#1

[tigereye]

92. I'm waiting for your dissertation on this topic, Sugar

:)

[JVS]

16. As Athanasius' chef said in the 4th century

Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the spaghetti cooking faith;
Which spaghetti except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.


In other words: don't break it!

[Sugar Smack]

52. I got a little choked up reading that. It's about faith.

Faith that the spaghetti will bend in the pot as it boils. Faith that one minute of spaghetti zen does not mean a radical change in the texture of a single strand. Faith that patience will lead to great reward.

Your post was beautiful! :cry:

[JVS]

58. I think you may have just come up with a fundamentalist sect of...

Pastafarianism. "Do you BELIEVE that spaghetti is going to bend in the pot!" They could be called "Spaghetti handlers" and throw big cooking-pot revivals throughout the South and Midwest.

[Sugar Smack]

69. And evoke the wrath of the Flying Spaghetti Monster as

an anarchistic force to the natural disorder of spaghetti: Behold; it shall not be controlled.

:hug:

[commander bunnypants]

14. murderer

:cry:

CB

[1gobluedem]

15. Me too.

And I'm proud of it. :P

When you make spaghetti for three kids, any shortcut is preferable and it's easier to break the spaghetti when you cook it then to let yours get cold while you cut everybody else's.

[Misunderestimator]

20. Good point!!

I should start breaking chicken nuggets too!! :D

[jpgray]

17. I break fettucine

[Midlodemocrat]

18. I thought you broke wind.

[jpgray]

19. That post broke my heretofore bouyant and freewheeling spirit

:cry:

[Midlodemocrat]

25. I'm sorry, jpgray.

It was just so, so, so, obvious. :hug:

[JVS]

32. sweet!

[Misunderestimator]

21. Well fettucine IS flat...

it should be broken.

[SofaKingLiberal]

51. Would you like to eat some embyros with your broken spaghetti?

How about a fetus?

You people make me sick.

:puke:

[Sugar Smack]

53. The sound of spaghetti snapping beaks my heart in two.

x(

[JVS]

61. It's butchery of uncooked pasta and it is an abomination!

[El Fuego]

96. It's a potential carbonara!

[Misunderestimator]

54. lovely

[Midlodemocrat]

60. Oops, replied to wrong poster. Sorry, MisU.

[Misunderestimator]

65. Good thing I missed that...

would have been confusing... :) :hi:

[Midlodemocrat]

62. You ain't doing much for my digestion right now, either.

:eyes:

[El Fuego]

97. I want my embryos al dente.

[Sugar Smack]

10. A MAN AFTER MY OWN HEART!!!!

You most certainly DO NOT break spaghetti!! There are about 4,000 good reasons why this is so and not one good one to support the breaking of spaghetti!! *she said, hyperventillating*

[asthmaticeog]

38. I would posit one good reason:

I don't have a big enough pot to support full strands. :shrug:

[jpgray]

42. Lame! Even a collegiate bachelor such as myself has a big pasta pot

No colander as of this moment though.

[Magrittes Pipe]

43. Then you shouldn't try to make spaghetti.

You can get a big-ass stock pot at Target for $15. You spend more than that on Odor Eaters.

[asthmaticeog]

45. That's too much to spend while there are still records to be bought.

[Sugar Smack]

64. Neither do I; I work with the spaghetti- it requires love and tending.

I get the wrath of boiling-hot steam on my face sometimes, but I believe that in such cases, agony is a small price to pay. That the consequent "odd texture" of unbroken spaghetti is a result of it being half in, half out of the water for one minute (as opposed to cruelly broken and dumped) is an outrageous myth. This is why I give the strands small, frequent tamps downward as they boil. It's a truly satisfying experience.

:9

[asthmaticeog]

75. Why did that post turn me on?

Lord, I need help...

[Sugar Smack]

79. You need help?

I need a cigarette. *gulps, fans self*

[JVS]

68. That's like chopping up a dog to get him to fit in the airline cage!

[asthmaticeog]

73. Is that a problem for some reason?

Granted, they're not so frisky without legs, but if you're movin', you're movin'.

[JVS]

76. Oh boy

:popcorn:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

39. What kind of commie asshat would break the spaghetti?

[Sugar Smack]

72. And why do they hate America?

:loveya:

[JVS]

78. Evidently commie asshats with kids, without big pots, or who think...

that spaghetti needs to be cooked evenly very carefully

[El Fuego]

100. I thought the broken spaghetti was a metaphor.

Like we begin our lives as whole uncooked spaghetti, and the society breaks us in half just so we fit in the Big Pot. :D

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. I thought it was more like this...

Person 1: Fuck cracker barrel.
Person 2: I like cracker barrel!
Person 1: Well thanks for discriminating against (insert minority), Shit-for-brains!

[jpgray]

9. My one act play represents the world I thought I lived in

Not the one I apparently inhabit

[NJ Democrats]

22. I hate Cracker Barrel

The food sucks

[jpgray]

24. Yes, so much is true

[Magrittes Pipe]

46. And they're bigots.

http://www.eeoc.gov/press/8-11-04.html

[mcscajun]

55. They settled the discrimination lawsuit over two years ago.

They have signs up at the front door of every restaurant and on every menu proclaiming their policy.

They might be worth a second chance...that is, if you liked their food in the first place. I do, up to a point.

[tigereye]

27. ah

:rofl:

I really want to have a beer with you someday, JP.

[jpgray]

31. Now that I'm officially unemployed the chances of that can only go up

Guess who's buying though. :P

[tigereye]

33. that seems fair....

next time I'm in, wait, where are you again? ;)Aren't you in Minnesota or something???

I haven't been there since a great, kickass wedding I attended, long before I had a kid.

[terrya]

49. In a world where carpenters can get resurrected,,,,

anything is possible.

[RetroLounge]

70. She's Back?

:shrug:



RL

[asthmaticeog]

80. Yes. And this time, it's personal.

"Say goodbye to love... MOTHERFUCKER!"

[RetroLounge]

86. ...

:rofl:

Wow, I feel on top of the world now...

RL

[Merrick]

67. I hate people who think arguing about Cracker Barrel is stupid

ooh look at me, I'm so cool because I have better things to do than bitch back and forth about stupid glorified southern truck stop diner chains. whoopty-do.

[jpgray]

88. That was the original text of my thread, yes

:D

[Merrick]

90. oh yeah, well then...

I hate snootypants people who point out my mistakes. What, you think you're all hot? Cuz you're not.

[NMMNG]

82. Interesting there are all these Cracker Barrel threads all of the sudden

I'd never stepped foot in a Cracker Barrel in all nearly 38 years. Then just this past Monday I ate there for both breakfast and dinner while my friends and I were on the trek back home from our trip.

So what's this about discriminatory policies?

[jpgray]

87. They were sued by the EEOC for sexism/racism

And had a policy against hiring gays some years back as well.

[NMMNG]

93. Ah

I actually just read today in the HRC magazine about CB getting a horrible rating on their test of supporting gay rights for employees.

[sendero]

89. And folks here in the lounge..

... like to lord it over GD. At least the flame wars over there are typically over something of substance :)

[billyskank]

94. It is our perogative as Lounge lizards

to fight like a bunch of cats in a bag over fuck all. :P