Why Is "Cracker Barrel" Restaurant Not in CA?

[bicoastal12]

Back quickly to the original OP: I'm in VA right now, and Cracker Barrel is OK, but nothing to write home about. 'Usually have their roast beef/pot roast, which is soft enough to chew without teeth. We have Golden Corral, and even the highway dredges of Waffle House, that I like a little better. Maybe too, it's because they don't have a gift shot full of Made-In-China Americana.
I do miss mongolian/korean barbecues like SoCal has, and El Pollo Loco which isn't as common here.

[LASam]

Originally Posted by nullgeo

No. I don't watch television. Don't even own one.

I walked right into that one . This is, LITERALLY, the most tangential thread ever on City-Data. (For the Parks and Rec fans)

[nullgeo]

Originally Posted by LASam

I walked right into that one . This is, LITERALLY, the most tangential thread ever on City-Data. (For the Parks and Rec fans)

Boy, I don't agree this is the most tangled thread on CD ever ... lots rise to the category and far beyond this one ... this topic actually keeps returning to how crappy Cracker Barrel genre food is and how bad it is for a person to eat.

I am just checking in for a moment ... will have to get back to the convolutions later to chuckle a bit more with user_id over his various misrepresentations and claims and unwillingness to acknowledge some of the realities of dietary evolution. I have lots of real-world commitments showing up for action this week and the next several. But Cracker Barrel diet is too much fun to ignore. I will try to throw more evolutionary history into the mix.

One thing that is fascinating about the tangents is how much dental anthropology has been teaching us about our history ... there are numerous specialists in genetics and evolutionary and physical anthropology studying ancient teeth just to put together findings with mountains of statistical genetic analysis. Talk about a specialized world!

Now the question is: will the scientists of the future study Cracker Barrel menus and their effect on the deterioration of the human race. I am betting someone somewhere will earn their PhD on a Cracker Barrel thesis.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by bicoastal12

Back quickly to the original OP: I'm in VA right now, and Cracker Barrel is OK, but nothing to write home about.

I do miss mongolian/korean barbecues like SoCal has, and El Pollo Loco which isn't as common here.

That we can agree upon. CB is nuthin' special.

Thankfully, we do have mongolian barbeques and Korean restaurants relatively close by but El Pollo Loco stops at the Oregon/Washington boprder heading North and skips New Mexico heading West and stopping in Texas.

I sometimes make up their marinade, with my own touches, and grill the chicken here at home. Hold the beans and rice. It's likely healthier that way.

[user_id]

Originally Posted by nullgeo

more with user_id over his various misrepresentations and claims and unwillingness to acknowledge some of the realities of dietary evolution.

There are no misrepresentations, but I wanted to include something...the most important point. Debating about the paleolithic diet is a perfectly fine anthropological discussion, but there is little consensus among anthropologists and most importantly it should be, at best, a starting point for nutritional conversations in the modern age. There was no homogeneous paleolithic diet so there really is nothing to mimic, even Gorillas which occupy a much smaller niche don't have a homogeneous diet. Furthermore, as far as our digestive systems go there is nothing particularly special about the paleolithic period. There was no "reset" before this period, instead we went into it with many millions of years of evolutionary baggage and before the paleolithic period our ancestors were decidedly herbivorous. Picking out the paleolithic period and claiming that is our "evolutionary diet" makes little sense, to what degree our bodies adapted to dietary changes during that period is an open question. That is, a dietary shift is not evidence of adaptations for that diet! The dietary shift always comes first! Its forced on a species and, with luck, the species will adapt to it but that isn't always the case.....

What is for more telling than evolutionary tales, is modern scientific results. There is a growing body of evidence that tells us what diets prevent disease: diets rich in whole plant foods (including grains), relatively low in fat and with limited amounts of animal based foods. These are also the only diets that have been shown, in a research environment, to prevent and reverse heart disease among other things. Grains aren't implicated in disease by actual research, that is just a popular theme based on the erroneous idea of a "evolutionary diet".

[NewToCA]

And after 275 postings, we now know why there are no Cracker Barrel restaurants in California.

I think this has been as far as this thread should go, please feel free to continue though in the C-D Food Forum.

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