Cracker Barrel Is Changing Its Southern Theme - Eating In Kissimmee Restaurant & Old Country Store
Cracker Barrel August 2025
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as
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the recording of this Sunday, August
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24th, 2025.
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I'm getting ready to head over to
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Cracker Barrel, which is changing not
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only their logo, but also the interiors
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of their store. Don't know about the
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exterior, probably other than the
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signage. There is one located here in CM
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a few miles away. Once I heard about
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this, I thought probably should go check
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it out, get a meal. I love Cracker
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Barrel food, the aesthetic, the ambiance
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of it, but they're getting a reverb.
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They're streamlining it, I think, is the
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terminology, which a lot of things are
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doing that. McDonald's, Taco Bell, even
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some of the stuff in Disney, you know,
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the kitsiness, quirkiness of things is
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really starting to get toned down a
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little bit. And Cracker Barrel appears
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to be on that list as well. I'm going to
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check it out. I'm inviting you to join
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me. I'll probably get some breakfast
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food even though it's I think it's
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already almost about noon now, but I
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love some breakfast food. Don't usually
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eat at this time of the day. When I do
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breakfast food, it's usually later at
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night, but today's an exception. It's
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Cracker Barrel Day. Join me, shall you?
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Couple months ago, I purchased a couple
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of chairs from the establishment. I do
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like their rocking chairs. Ended up
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getting two of those. One there, one
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there.
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Very comfortable
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and sturdy.
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Heading out of the celebration bubble
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over to Highway 192. Only a couple miles
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from here, not too far. Over to where
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I'm heading now. Now, I've eaten at
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dozens of these, not not the big
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oranges, but I've eaten at dozens of the
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restaurants, which is right across from
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the big orange orange world, all across
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the US over the course of my life.
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Probably dozens and dozens, if not a
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hundred different ones. But the one I
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have frequented the most, just simply
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because I've lived in this area a while,
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is this one.
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And I got to say, I mean, it might be
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because it's a Sunday, but it's pretty
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busy out here. There's a lot of There's
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a lot of cars here.
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This is a after church type place. It's
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11:00 right now. I guess it would be not
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I guess church wouldn't be out yet.
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But this is definitely a Sunday dining
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establishment.
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You know, family style. Everyone shows
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up, group of people.
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That's the old sign. They haven't taken
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it down yet.
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with the gentleman sitting in his chair.
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It's not a rocket chair. It's just
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standard wooden chair with the barrel
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itself. Cracker barrel. And I didn't
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notice this till I was looking about
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this the other day. I've seen this logo
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so many times. I believe that this is
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supposed to be a lasso
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coming off of the K and and looping
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around back to the R. I think it's
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supposed to be a rope. I could be wrong
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on that. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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That sign will probably be taken down
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very soon.
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Classic car alert right there, the El
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Camino. And the sign up there is also
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has not been changed. Next door, I'm
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going to show a little update on some
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192 stuff. This property may be I don't
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know. It doesn't say it is protected,
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but it may be protected by electronic
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surveillance. No other surveillance,
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just electronic. Like maybe a robot.
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This property may be
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I don't know where I'm going with this.
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This will most likely be my last time
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eating here with the old signage. They
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haven't taken it down. What if we're
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going to do with that old sign? Probably
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end up at an antique place. Maybe the
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Lakeland Antique Mall.
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So, right next door there used to be a
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an attraction. It was like a movie ride
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type of thing. They took the sign down.
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I showed it many, many times in my
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Highway 192 updates. And then I happened
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to be out here when they were destroying
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it. And I got a couple episodes of the
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progression, the destruction of it. And
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it looks like they're building something
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new or at least starting to move the
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dirt around. Something to go here.
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Lot of stuff through here is closed.
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I think one of the restaurants down here
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closed as well down this direction.
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Cracker Bear is still open though.
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I don't really know if the change will
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help. I have I must say
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I've noticed with a lot of places with
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the whole streamlining and keeping
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things not as cluttered as they once
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were with establishments, there has to
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be a reason for it because every place
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is doing it. It's not just not just this
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place. Everywhere you go, it's
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happening. The kitschy and quirkiness
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and clutter of places, it's becoming a
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thing of the past.
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It's busy.
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I go check in the gift shop and see what
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see the inside looks like. The general
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consist consistent consistent the
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general con consensus the consistent
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consensus so far that I've seen the last
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couple days is the majority of people
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are not happy with the change. I'm kind
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of waiting to see maybe if the food has
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changed. If still food still tastes the
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same. I guess that's all that really
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matters. But I do like walking in and
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getting the experience. You can always
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get to go food. But if you're going in
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to sit and eat, you kind of like that
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that kind of homestyle vibe almost like
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you're going into like, you know, your
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grandparents house or your grandparents
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friend's house. That old that old school
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style that Cracker Cracker Barre really
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really had. But will the change will
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that end up dictating into less people
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going or the company failing? I don't
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know. I'm not a business owner. I have
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no clue. All right. So, I'm noticing as
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I'm about to walk in, doesn't really
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look like they have really done too much
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to this one. So, my I might be tapping
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into one of the still untouched,
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unchanged, unchanged versions. So, we'll
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kind of see. I'm going to I'm going to
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step in and kind of walk around, put my
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name in. They've already started. You
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can see they they still have quite a few
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things in the gift shop. In fact, they
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even have like their Halloween stuff up
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through here. They got some Halloween
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items. You got some skulls down here.
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You got the dancing broom, which is not
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dancing at the moment. Yeah, this still
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kind of looks the same. So, this might
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be one of the ones that they have not
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quite ransacked yet. They haven't
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changed over yet, but I would imagine
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it's coming. Or maybe the CMI. Maybe the
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CMI one will stay old school. I mean,
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this is this kind of like cowboy
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country, so you never know. Maybe
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they'll keep it the same. Believe it or
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not, Central Florida is big cowboy
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country. I used to work at a feed store
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in St. Cloud, Florida. A lot of the
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farmers, a lot of the ranchers, one of
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the biggest rodeo, Silver Spur Spurs
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rodeo happens in this town just down the
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road down Highway 192. Maybe they will
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not overtake this one, but I would
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imagine it's probably a complete
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corporatewide type of thing. There's a
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lot of people in here. They said about
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30 minute wait. Put my name in at the
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front. They're going to alert me soon
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and then I'm going to go walk around. I
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probably can walk around beforehand and
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just kind of film the inside of the
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inside there before I sit down at the
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table. But yeah, this all kind of looks
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the same. They haven't done any of this
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yet. They haven't changed any of this
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yet. Fingers crossed. Maybe they won't.
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Oh, maybe they won't. Yeah, speaking of
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country, I mean, this is You got Dolly
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Parton right here. You got Paty CL. Oh,
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they got vinyl. They got vinyl here. I
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mean, this doesn't really Which one
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doesn't fit in? Paty Klein, Miles Davis,
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Guardians, a lot of the patriotic garb
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here. We got the we the people, United
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States of America with the US flag
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there. And you got the Constitution over
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here as well.
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A lot of different items all around. And
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you got the old washboards. See, this is
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the kind of stuff that I think they're
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going to be getting rid of the
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washboards. The old signage. You got the
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25% sale price hand cleaner. You got the
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enjoy team right up there. The old IG.
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Nothing says the South like IG. You
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know, I got to thinking I this might
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just be more of a southern thing. Do
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they have these on the west coast? I've
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never eaten at a west coast Crackco
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Barrel. It's just always for me it seems
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like it's more of a southern thing cuz I
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grew up, you know, in the south. I lived
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in Oklahoma for a while, but other than
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that, that's kind of the Midwest, but
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other than that, it's I've always lived
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in southern states and that's where me
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and my family would always eat. We went
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to Cracker Barrel. Oh, these are blow
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molds. Look at this. Look at these cute
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little blow molds. They're like mushroom
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blow molds. Some really good Halloween
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decor. animated haunted house with
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projector. Look at this dog right over
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here with the with the kind of creepy
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eyes. This is good. Halloween decor blow
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molds with this crow with the skull.
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That's a light up the pumpkins. I like
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that pumpkin stand right over there. I
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can maybe maybe I could get something
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from here. A little little yard art cuz
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I am going to be decorating for
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Halloween. Even Christmas blow molds.
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Ooh, this might go good with my hot
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chocolate one I got last year. It's
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Frosty. I think that's Frosty. It is a
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snowman. I don't even want to start
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thinking about Christmas yet. It's not
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even Halloween yet. But these are cute.
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These are so cute. How much is that? 60
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bucks. That's a pretty good deal for 60
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bucks right there. Yeah. So, you got the
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whole biscuit tray up top. Applesauce
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right up there. Little uh Typton County
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sweets.
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Magnolia's a Beetlejuice shirt.
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Ghostbusters,
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a little bit of everything. It really is
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a a huge mishmash of stuff. There's
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Elvis to focus on really what made this
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place super popular and definitely
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notable with their theming is the
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country vibe, the southern vibe, if you
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will. Ooh,
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there's a shirt here.
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Cracker Bara old country store shirt.
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Oh, and they still have these also. They
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have the these on the t Oh, they still
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have these on the tables. I can this is
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a core memory for me when I was young.
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The little game here that you like put
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the put the items in and you jump the
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>> wild.
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>> Leave only one. If you leave only one,
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you're a genius according to the $6. Oh,
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there's there is that the new logo. No,
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that's the old logo. Okay, that's the
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old logo. But see how it's a rope? See
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how it's a rope there? I might have to
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buy one. I might have to buy some stuff.
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First place I ever had a moon pie was in
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the panhandle of Florida. I think it
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might have been Panama City or
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Pensacola, Florida. Went to a place
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called Po Folks. And that was the first
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place I had a moon pie. The second place
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I ever had a moon moon pie was this
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establishment. It wasn't this particular
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place. It was in a different different
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spot across the US. But when I think of
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moon pies, I think of this place and
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Poof Folks. Love some Poof Folks. You
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got the this this whole inside area here
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is one big impulse buy. There's the old
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logo. There's the old logo. I probably
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am going to have to buy that shirt right
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there. They have the logo hat, $20. The
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logo tea, $20. The hoodie, $19.99. I'm
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going to get that shirt. I wonder what
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if they have it in my size. There's only
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two of them left. There's only two of
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them left right there. I think they have
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the I think they have the big guy sizes.
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I'm probably going to grab that.
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Probably get it on the way out. Maybe
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I'll combine it with the check. All
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right. I purchased my t-shirt here with
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this logo on it. I asked one of the
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employees and they said they got a
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reverb throughout the entire place last
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October. And according to her, she does
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not think they're going to be doing any
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more reverb stuff, but I I don't I don't
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know. We'll wait and see. But if so,
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this might be the maybe this this will
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be the last place, the last untouched
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place. And maybe this just different
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other areas of the country they're
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refurbing it. Either way, I'm here to
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eat. I am loving some of this blow mold
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stuff. This is so cute. This happy
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Halloween. Little Charlie Brown, great
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pumpkin there. Little snake, little
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gnome right here. Little uh little cap.
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Little gnome with uh little flower eyes.
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I mean, look at this. Served over our
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classic sawmill gravy. Sausage and egg
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hash brown casserole. That has to be fat
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free, right? I don't think anything in
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here is fat free to be completely
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honest. Probably
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when you think of not fat free, you
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think of this place.
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As I'm walking around, there's a lot of
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employees here. They're all very
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friendly and they keep asking if they
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can help me with anything. I said, I'm
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just waiting for a table.
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Very, very helpful and very, very
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friendly. So, I don't know. According to
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the few people I've talked to in here,
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this is not going to go away. But I
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don't know. That's not that's not what
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I'm hearing on the WBY. I don't know.
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You can't believe everything you read,
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but it seems like all all the different
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locations are going to be toned down.
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This does not appear to be toned down
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for what it was before.
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It's packed in here. There's like no
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tables. I mean, this place is slammed.
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Love all this nostalgic stuff. Please
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don't get rid of the nostalgia, even if
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you tone it down. Look at Cherry
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Sparkle. Look at this guy drinking the
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Cherry Sparkle right there. The taste
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tells the tale. Oh, here's Bob White
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brand. This is a Florida brand.
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Bob White oranges.
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No, that says Stewart, PA. But there's a
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Bob White in Florida, also. I was wrong
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on that one.
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Eat your fall breakfast lineup. Here's
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the new logo. Okay, the menus have been
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taken over already. Uncle Hershel's
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favorite breakfast is back.
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Okay, now is Uncle Hersel Is this Uncle
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Hershel? Are they getting rid of Uncle
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Hershel?
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I got Uncle Hershel on a shirt in here.
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There was only two left. So, there's
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only two shirts left, so I figured I
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should buy it before I pay for my meal.
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I cannot express how busy it is in here.
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I'm obviously not showing people at the
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tables eating, but it is there's a lot
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of people in here. Here's the menu. The
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world's best pancakes and French toast.
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Fall lineup.
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Cracker Barrel Classics.
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This is all lunch. Comfort calling. Pick
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up the fork.
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Judging by the crowd that's in here for
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this location with locals and tourists,
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I don't really know
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if they're going to be hurting due to
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this reverb.
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>> I like the mango.
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>> You know, I think one of the best things
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about this, other than the the insanely
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good southern food,
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but one of the other good things about
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this besides the ambiance and all the
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decor that's inside is the gift shop
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itself. You got all this classic vintage
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stuff. Stretch Armstrong. Granted, it's
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new. It's made to look vintage, but you
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got the Stretch Armstrong. You got the
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View Master. You got the Etcha Sketch.
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You got the classic accordion right
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here. You got the is that a gyro wheel?
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Euro wheel. How would you pronounce
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that? Euro is the food, but I don't know
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how you pronounce the the mechanism, the
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wheel version. The slinky, the
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harmonica, the walkietalkies.
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Hope all this stuff stays. I hope it
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does. went and put my newly purchased
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shirt, which may soon to be discontinued
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with that logo right there back in my
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car. Another place that kind of rivals
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Cracker Barrel for breakfast food I love
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is Waffle House. I haven't I haven't
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eaten at as many Waffle Houses as I had
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this place, but I have eaten at Waffle
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House a lot of times.
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Back when I was in a a band many many
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years ago, we used to play with another
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local band called Playground Heroes.
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Little shout out to Playground Heroes
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for those in the CM Central Florida
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area. They used to have a song called
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Anarchy at Waffle House. Playground
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Heroes. Good Scott, Scott Punk band back
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in the early 2000s when I was in a band
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called Alias Clark before I joined TNT.
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Way before I joined Guttermouth in
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Central Florida, we would play with
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Playground Heroes all the time. Probably
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played 50 shows with them and I'd always
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be singing along to Anarchy at Waffle
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House.
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Didn't think I was going to mention
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Playground Heroes today. I believe my
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table is being prepared
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and soon I'll be ready to sit down and
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enjoy a nice southern meal in the old
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country store.
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Also, I believe the Oh, they're calling
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my name right now. All right, table for
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one.
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I looked at this up front, but I'll look
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at it again. Definitely want to get some
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breakfast food.
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They got a little bit of everything. But
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I love
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breakfast food. Most of the time I eat
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it at dinner, but yeah. Here, just see
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how many people are in here.
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Sausage egg casserole.
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14.49 bacon egg casserole $ 13.99.
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Oh, I just realized it's 11:30 now. They
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might have switched to the lunch and
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dinner menu.
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I think I was looking through the
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breakfast menu earlier.
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They do have this which is like just a
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little pamphlet that goes in there.
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I have to ask if they serve breakfast
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now. I thought they serve breakfast all
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day. If not, I have to get something
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munchy.
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All right, since I am recording this on
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a Sunday, here's the weekend special
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Saturday and Sunday. We have new items
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here. Southern fried chicken, Nashville
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hot southern chicken, honey butter,
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southern fried chicken.
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Also love some grilled catfish. Maybe
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I'll get grilled catfish.
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Now that I'm seeing the lunch menu,
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maybe I won't have breakfast.
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Is country fried steak only 600
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calories? Come on. That's the No, that
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can't be accurate. They do indeed serve
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breakfast all day. I got something
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called the Grandma's Platter, which is a
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sample platter of everything. Also got
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some coffee
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for my breakfast stuff, my eggs. I got
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some Shalua hot sauce. I got some OJ for
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some vitamin C. Water to stay hydrated.
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And of course, coffee for caffeine.
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It's a little too many beverages, but
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yeah, just I got this first and then
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I'll take a water. I like, you know,
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I'll take an OJ too. I'm getting
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breakfast. A tiny bit of cream and sugar
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in this, you know. And I could be wrong.
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Maybe they have referred it. Maybe they
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have toned it down to what from what it
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once was. If they have, I'm liking how
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it is now. But I don't think that
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they've touched this one yet.
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But I will say everyone that's in here,
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I cannot imagine these people not coming
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in here just simply because they take
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some things off the walls and change the
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tables,
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but I could be wrong. I mean, everyone
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is in here to eat. It is packed in here.
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Again, it's also Sunday, so
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maybe on Tuesday might be a little
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different, but Sunday, everyone goes out
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to eat as a family. So, I don't think
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Sunday is going to be hurting any just
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from the amount of people that are in
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here. Cheers. All right. I will say
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though, the peg boards,
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the pegboard game, none of them are any
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of the tables I've seen.
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They have this like online thing and
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they sell them in the gift shop, which I
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think I might buy one in the gift shop,
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but they're not at the tables like they
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used to be. It used to always be at the
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table and you could like do it right
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here at the table. So maybe that's one
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of the things they're removing. All
20:14
right, take it for what it will, but a
20:16
quick little interweb search
20:19
about the company. It expanded across
20:22
the US in 1990. This is only off of
20:25
Wiki.
20:27
Got the new logo on there. They got rid
20:29
of the older gentleman with the chair
20:31
and the the barrel itself.
20:35
were founded in ' 69 in Tennessee, so
20:38
it's southern based.
20:41
Looks like their income has gone down
20:43
dramatically over the recent days, but
20:46
their revenue is up, but their operating
20:47
income is up. I don't know what really
20:49
any of that means, but
20:52
Southern Cuisine.
21:02
Let's see,
21:02
the Old Country Store.
21:04
I hope they don't get rid of the old
21:11
Started by putting it on the highway
21:11
system
21:13
on the side of the interstates
21:16
and for a while I can recall that they
21:18
would let people in RVs park
21:21
in their parking lot. So that made them
21:23
very cool in my book. I don't know if
21:26
they still allow that. I haven't done
21:27
the RV thing in a long time.
21:30
There's the chair. Famous chairs.
21:34
Zaget survey named them the best
21:35
breakfast
21:38
known for their loyalty of customers.
21:41
Let's see if that changes.
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658 stores as of last year.
21:48
658 locations all across the US.
21:57
Yeah, it'd be kind of nice instead of
21:57
being on my phone to be utilizing a pig
22:01
solitire game at the table, but there
22:03
aren't any. Guess you got to buy them in
22:05
the gift shop now. All right, food has
22:06
arrived. I did another quick little
22:09
search. Appears as if less than 50 of
22:13
the 600 stores are getting the rebrand.
22:17
I highly doubt if this one was if this
22:20
one was changed a little bit to what it
22:22
looks like now. Last October, 11 months
22:24
ago.
22:26
I don't think the CMI one just based on
22:28
the the people, the clientele,
22:31
demographics,
22:33
tourism. I don't think they they might
22:35
not streamline this one. So, I might be
22:36
eating at an untouched old school
22:40
Cracker Barrel store.
22:43
So that's like what 10%.
22:46
10% of all the stores are getting the
22:47
rebrand.
22:49
When the news hit a couple days ago, I
22:51
would have thought every one of them was
22:53
getting ransacked, but evidently it's
22:56
only like 10%. This is the breakfast.
22:58
This is what we're dealing with. Sunny
23:00
side up eggs, bacon, sausage, ham, a
23:04
little casserole over here. Got a grits,
23:10
two pancakes.
23:17
Natural Syrup,
23:17
Maple Grove Farms.
23:20
Dig in. They still have the checkerboard
23:23
down here, though. Still have the
23:25
checkerboard seats. Take a look over
23:27
here, though. They got this.
23:30
There's the old logo on it right there.
23:34
That cast iron.
23:37
They got their old syrups. All kind of
23:39
stuff.
23:41
over and you're exiting through the gift
23:42
shop and entering through the gift shop.
23:43
As I'm waiting in line to pay, they have
23:45
this little assorted nostalgic can. The
23:48
line to pay is like is lengthy as well.
23:51
You can also pay at the You can also pay
23:53
with the QR code at the table, but I
23:55
wanted to get a couple things. I get
23:56
some gummy sharks. I'm going to get some
23:59
of these lifesavers for the house. But
24:02
dad's root beer, Mary Jane's, bit of
24:04
honeyas.
24:11
Yeah, I am very full. very pleased with
24:11
the not only the amount of service that
24:13
was in there. They had an overload of
24:16
workers, team members working in the
24:19
gift shop, the old country store, but
24:21
also, you know, the people cleaning the
24:23
tables, people working in the at the
24:25
register,
24:27
the host stand, servers, etc. Everyone
24:31
was very, very kind, very, very nice,
24:33
just like always. And I didn't really
24:36
realize until I was kind of sitting
24:37
there eating my eating my meal and just
24:39
kind of was like searching the web that
24:41
yeah, evidently not all of the stores
24:43
are changing or maybe they're rolling
24:45
out to test it. I think 30 are
24:48
completely changing and then another 30
24:50
or 40, I'm just kind of paraphrasing
24:52
what I was reading, are going to be
24:54
doing some slight changes, but only less
24:57
than 50 of the stores, well, the Old
24:59
Country stores and the restaurants are
25:01
doing a vast
25:03
complete change.
25:06
That does not mean that the all the
25:08
signs won't change. I would imagine the
25:10
signs will probably at some point, you
25:11
know, the logo is probably going to be
25:12
the same across the board, but I'm going
25:15
to say this one might not
25:20
this one might not change the inside of
25:22
it. It might keep that same southern
25:24
decor.
25:25
The kitsiness, the quirkiness, the
25:27
clutteriness,
25:29
almost like you're walking through,
25:32
you know, like your grandparents or your
25:34
grandparents' friend's house,
25:37
that era. Almost like you're walking
25:40
through an attic full of relics. And I
25:42
like that. I like that a lot. I like
25:45
that ambiance.
25:50
It's good to keep that kind of stuff
25:50
around.
25:52
Be interesting to see if any any of the
25:54
Florida stores changed. I mean, all the
25:56
Florida ones might stay like this.
25:58
Anyway, that's going to do it for today.
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Thanks for watching. This is on Highway
26:01
192 right across from Orange World
26:06
and it was busy.
26:09
Again, just to reiterate, it is, as I'm
26:12
filming this, it is a Sunday. So,
26:15
a lot of people go out to eat as a
26:16
family on the weekends, either before or
26:19
after church or maybe
26:21
Even when church is not involved, just
26:23
going out as a family because the
26:24
weekends are
26:26
like that. Most the tables completely
26:28
full of large groups.
26:36
That's going to do it for today.
26:36
Cracker Barrel still open. It doesn't
26:38
look like this one's going to be
26:39
touched. At least at least as of right
26:41
now. As I'm as I'm filming this.
26:44
It's a helicopter. That's right.
26:48
Still saying old school here at CMI.
26:51
Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the
26:52
next video. The vlog
26:55
is
27:01
I always wonder why he's not on a
27:01
rocking chair though. They sell the
27:03
rocking chairs and are so good, so
27:04
comfortable. But the logo, he's not
27:06
sitting in a rocking chair. That would
27:08
have really made it a better logo, but I
27:10
never noticed till now. He's just
27:11
sitting in a standard old school chair
27:14
with his arm up against a barrel, just
27:16
living the living the good life right
27:17
there. Just relaxing.
27:19
Probably just chowed down on some
27:22
hearty meal.