JIM TREACHER: Cracker Barrel Surrenders.

Cracker Barrel “steamlined” their logo last month, and everybody went completely bonkers. I think Trump even tweeted about it? Probably. He tweets about pretty much everything, and no slight to the American dream is too small.

So of course, Cracker Barrel caved almost instantly.

Which was a big mistake! Barrelheads (as we don’t call ourselves) smelled blood in the water and pushed for further concessions. We don’t like what their fancy new citified CEO has been doing with the place, and we want ‘em to put it back like it was. It wasn’t broke and didn’t need to be fixed.

Today, the enemy retreated another step.

Bullying works!

And now is not the time to stop. If your local Cracker Barrel has been remodeled, ask why it hasn’t been changed back yet. If the entire chain admits this whole thing was a mistake, why should you be punished for it?

Don’t be a jerk about it or anything. Just something to bring up when the cashier asks how you enjoyed your meal.

Today, Cracker Barrel. Tomorrow, McDonald’s. No more big gray shoeboxes!

Heh, indeed. They don’t have to go all the way back to their original Googie-style structures of the 1950s with the enormous golden arches jutting out. I’d take the mansard roof boxes of the 1970s, as long as the staff are also wearing throwback polyester uniforms from that era: