Cracker Barrel Has Fallen
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About
Cracker Barrel Has Fallen is an online catchphrase repeated in mockery of a 2023 tweet by the Texas Family Project bemoaning the brand "going woke" by contributing to an LGBTQ Pride Month event (not to be confused with a 2022 controversy when they were accused of "going woke" for introducing plant-based burgers). The phrase's overdramatic tone was widely mocked on social media in June of 2023.
Origin
On June 8th, 2023, the Texas Family Project[1] (@FamilyProjectTX) posted a tweet bemoaning that restaurant chain Cracker Barrel had participated in a Pride Month event, writing, "We take no pleasure in reporting that @CrackerBarrel has fallen. A once family friendly establishment has caved to the mob." The tweet was referencing Cracker Barrel catering a 2023 Pride Month event in Nashville, Tennessee.[2] It gained over 600 retweets, 5,000 quote-tweets, and 2,400 likes in one day (shown below).
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The tweet was swiftly mocked on Twitter, with users adding dramatic images to parody the tweet's hyperbolic tone. For example, user @herosnvrdie69[3] tweeted the George Bush Learning About 9/11 image with the phrase, gaining over 1,200 retweets and 10,000 likes in one day (shown below, left). User @AdequateEmily[4] posted a parody poster of the Gerard Butler film Olympus Has Fallen, gaining over 280 retweets and 1,700 likes (shown below, right).
Others joked about the tweet by inserting it into letters one might send from war. For example, user @speedofwhite[5] posted a parody that gained over 30 retweets and 120 likes (shown below, left). Similarly, user @MikeDrucker[6] posted an example that gained over 50 retweets and 330 likes (shown below, right).
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[1] Twitter – FamilyProjectTX
[2] Cracker Barrel – Bringing the Front Porch to Pride
[3] Twitter – herosnvrdie69
[4] Twitter – AdequateEmily
[5] Twitter – speedofwhite
[6] Twitter – MikeDrucker
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Briham
Jun 09, 2023 at 02:54PM EDT
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