IS THE Restaurant "Cracker Barrel" Derogatory?

Question

When it uses the term "Cracker" in it's company name, is it a derogatory work secretly refering to a Southern Cracker who whips black slaves back in they day and the whip would make that "crack" noise; hence the term "Cracker"?

In their slogan they show a white man by some old wooden barrels. Like the kind that white's would tie inslaved black men to in order to whip them.

Answer 1

nyup.  its a cracker of a place...

what about white or black paint?

Answer 2

Can we all grow up and stop inventing racism where there isn't any???

Answer 3

No.  If it was derogatory at all, it would be toward white people not black people anyway.  "Cracker," regardless of it's origin, is a derogatory word for whites like a certain word is toward blacks.

Answer 4

In the case of this fine restaurant chain, the name is supposed to remind people of the "good old days" long ago, when people used to gather at a general store and sit around the cracker barrel and talk, gossip, and remember the days of their youth...   Pickles, crackers and most other things were shipped to stores in barrels, and the clerks dispensed them into smaller containers for people to take home for consumption.

Answer 5

do you even know what you're talking about?  i suggest reading up on your history before opening discussion on such topics.

Answer 6

Of course not and they serve wonderful food to boot!

Answer 7

Of course not!!!

The reference is to an old General Store (if you've ever been in a Cracker Barrel Restaurant, you'll know what I mean), and the Barrel where the store keeper sold the crackers out of, like a pickle barrel.  Would Pickle Barrel be derogatory, because the grocer had to pull pickles out of the barrel?

Wow!  Some people are just LOOKING for insults!

Answer 8

HAHAHAHHAA omg what?!?!