As is the case with any beloved restaurant, some menu items don't last forever. For lovers
of Cracker Barrel's often eclectic list of eats, this reality especially hits home. So,
we've compiled a list of Cracker Barrel menu items you're not likely to ever taste again.
On August 11, 2015, Cracker Barrel tweeted one final warning to their loyal breakfast fans:
"End summer with a sweet finish. Try our
Strawberries n' Cream French Toast Breakfast before it's gone, 8/16."
What made this dish so special? As with all Cracker Barrel's French toast menu options,
it was cooked using four slices of grilled sourdough bread. There was one major exception,
though — the restaurant stuffed this entree with a delightful cream cheese filling
and topped it with powdered sugar and fresh strawberries.
After it disappeared, some customers disavowed the restaurant altogether.
One customer lamented on Twitter:
"Cracker Barrel doesn't have my strawberries and cream French toast anymore. I'm never returning."
Don't get us wrong — you'll likely never find any shortage of pancakes at Cracker Barrel.
The eatery serves their light and fluffy buttermilk treats year round,
along with seasonal topping options like "wild" blueberries from Maine. Being seasonal offerings,
however, you shouldn't get too attached to any special version of Cracker Barrel stacks.
It seems they are just as likely to disappear as one of your favorite Game of Thrones characters.
Take for example pancakes topped with fruit. Sure,
you've got options. However, you’ll no longer find fan favorite cherries among them.
Pro tip: Buy Cracker Barrel pancake mix from the country store and then top them
with canned cherry pie filling and whipped cream from your local grocer. You are welcome.
Another popular pancake variety that mysteriously disappeared is chocolate chip.
In March 2018, one customer tweeted she would, quote, "never stop being mad" about this.
"At Cracker Barrel Old Country Store,
choice shouldn't stop where you go for dinner; you should get to pick exactly what you want too."
Cracker Barrel's buttermilk oven-fried chicken disappeared sometime in 2016,
but it wasn't until 2018 that customer dissatisfaction came to a head.
On Twitter, one customer proclaimed themselves, quote, "triggered," while others vowed to never
set foot in a Cracker Barrel again. Another saddened customer pleaded:
"I drive over an hour to eat buttermilk oven fried chicken,
and to hear that it has been discontinued totally broke my heart. Bring it back please!!"
In all fairness, Cracker Barrel does offer a Southern fried chicken dish. However,
that apparently offers little consolation to devotees of the buttermilk oven-fried version.
You can't very well talk about country cooking without throwing some red-eye
gravy into the mix. And for a shiny moment in its history,
Cracker Barrel served this red-hued elixir. Much to diners' chagrin,
though, the item disappeared sometime in the fall of 2017. As one patron tweeted:
"I was told that you no longer offer red-eye gravy. I demand answers."
A year later, another fan of the gravy facetiously tweeted:
"Cracker Barrel got rid of red-eye gravy and I'm only a little upset."
So, what makes red-eye gravy so addictive? This classic Southern pan sauce makes just
about anything better: country ham, biscuits, grits, fried potatoes, fried eggs... the
list goes on and on. It’s the kind of side that’s often better than the food it tops.
Once upon a time, Cracker Barrel bestowed diners with a most magical gift.
Whenever one ordered certain lovely libations from the menu, servers delivered the beverage
in a frozen mug. As in, yes, a gloriously frosty mug straight from the freezer,
guaranteed to keep your drink ice cold right down to the last drop.
But, in the summer of 2018, the restaurant made a drastic change. As one then-employee tweeted:
"We just got rid of our frozen mugs [...] Cracker Barrel takes everything great away."
While some diners simply referred to it as a, quote,
"sad day at the barrel," other loyal patrons took it personally.
One 2018 tweet in particular speaks to this higher level of disappointment:
"So I was informed this morning that @CrackerBarrel no longer has frozen mugs.
That is just wrong. Always got a frozen mug for my milk at breakfast
almost every Saturday for the past 25 [years]."
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