Cracker Barrel

[sarahmichigan]

A friend recently asked me if I'd eaten at Cracker Barrel before. I said I had, a long time ago, when I was a teen, but that I had boycotted them for a long time. He asked why, and I said because of their anti-gay policies. I knew that they had later added sexual orientation to their anti-discrimination policy, so I no longer boycott them. I haven't been there in a long time not because of that issue, but because it's my impression that they don't offer a lot to vegetarians.

I seem to recall some racial discrimination incidents being publicized as well, but at least it wasn't an *official* policy to discriminate on the basis of race. Why a person of color would want to work at CRACKER Barrel is beyond me, anyway.

Here's a commentary from The Nation that explains the background on the anti-gay thing and why I was boycotting, but am not now.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030210/badgett