Conservatives are melting down over cracker barrels decision to
provide a vegetarian option for people who die in there,
which to be honest with you kind of shocks me.
Like if you've ever been to a cracker barrel, the idea that they would have
a vegan anything option or vegetarian anything option does blow my mind.
It's a very greasy spoon chain that I used to be forced to go to when I would
visit family in Florida.
Now, with that said,
they announced that they're offering these interesting impossible sausage patties.
Okay, so the cracker barrel,
old country store posted on social media discover new meat frontiers experience
the out of this world flavor of impossible sausage made from plants.
Next time you build your own breakfast.
Now, I wanna be clear cracker barrel is still cracker barrel.
They still have all the other animal product treats that conservatives love to
enjoy and others you don't have to be conservative to enjoy them of course.
But just the very nature of offering this option to people who maybe don't wanna
eat meat has really set them a flame, they're very upset about this.
So one person writes, not going to happen cracker barrel used to be good,
we looked forward to eating in them, but not anymore.
But Sandy, I love you Sandy, you can still get the meat products
at cracker barrel like it's just providing more options.
More options are good even if you're not interested in those options,
it's good to have options.
>> It's authoritarian to give people options Ana,
that's exactly what the Communists want.
>> It is authoritarian to not provide people options.
>> Yes, I know.
I experienced no, I know, but like I experienced that recently, and
I wanna know what you think about this.
I got invited to a party, it was the 4th of July party,
I think that's an important detail to the story.
And there were no meat options, it was all vegetarian, and no one like,
look, Vegans, vegetarians, I love you brothers and sisters.
Okay, I love that you guys have options,
I think it's important to provide options for people who do not wanna eat meat.
However, when I think 4th of July as a meat eater,
although I have limited my meat eating to quite a small amount.
I don't eat meat a lot, but when I do,
it's usually gonna be at 1/4 of July barbecue right?
There were like so it was funny because I was at the table, and
I overheard one of the other party goers say that the hot dogs were Vegan hot dogs,
and it was either burgers or hot dogs.
I was like, not interested in the Vegan hot dogs, so
I went for the burger thinking it's a normal burger, I took a bite,
I was like tastes a little different.
But the guy who's throwing this party he's an actor very healthy,
so I thought maybe it's like free range grass fed something.
And they tend to taste a little bit, no, it was an impossible burger, and
I was offended.
Well, you got to at least let us know you're not gonna have meat at your
barbecue for the 4th of July, I'm just saying, I had a great time but still.
>> Jennifer Coolidge in legally blonde two said it best, right?
You look like the fourth of July makes me want a hot dog real bad, right?
[LAUGH] So there's nothing more associated with the 4th of July
unfortunately probably than actually meat.
But I agree with you, you give people options or
at less at least let people know hopefully you got drunk
enough that it tasted like a regular burger at the end.
Look, to be honest, it was delicious, it tasted different, but it was good.
I was just offended that like there I like to make decisions for myself and
I felt like I didn't get that right.
Like I didn't get that op opportunity, and
that's why I was like I could hold a fast one, it was more about that.
>> Maybe it wasn't a Vegan conversion process, right?
Like they don't even want you to know necessarily because they're like look,
you can't taste the difference.
And I've tried an impossible burger and you could definitely taste the difference.
>> Yeah, you can, and they're still delicious.
Again, I don't wanna take away from that, but yeah, again, I like having options.
And in this case, you have a bunch of like conservatives, like no options,
no it's what I want only what I want.
It's okay, Kevin writes in, doesn't write, and
Kevin posted in response to all of this, send them back to gates,
I don't know what that means, we don't eat in an old country store for woke burgers.
[LAUGH] My favorite thing is to like the past two comments are both like,
we eat in the cracker barrel, we don't eat at the cracker barrel.
Dine at the were embedded in the goddamn cracker barrel, and
we want the full cracker barrel immersive experience.
All right, dude, like you can go to harry potter world, but
I guess that's their cracker barrel, I don't know.
>> It's yeah, they're really up in arms about this Del says,
I just lost respect for a once great Tennessee company.
[LAUGH] You don't, no one's forcing you to eat the impossible sausage patties,
no one, it's just an option if you're interested.
Junior Luciano says, impossible is correct,
it is impossible for me to eat that, that's fine.
You're not forced to, and then here's Jerry, won't be eating here anymore.
Okay, that's all right, Jerry, we'll all survive that.
Now, others of course, were defending cracker barrel's decision to do this,
which these are people who actually have some common sense and
aren't offended by other people having other preferences.
Which we don't need to get into all of the comments there, but
I just I try to wrap my head around why it is that people get so
triggered by things like this, and I try to be a little more understanding, right?
Even though I think they're wrong, I still stand by that comment that they're wrong.
But when you get older things around you do start to change, and
I think it does scare people.
And they start to become nostalgic for how things were when they were kids,
and they do romanticize their own childhoods or
what the country was like during their childhoods.
I mean, I find myself doing that sometimes I have to snap out of it, because I'm
like, the nineties were so great, but they weren't, the nineties weren't that great.
Okay, there were a lot of problems in the freaking nineties, but
I do think that's what this is about.
I think it's just fear over society changing and
people becoming more conscious about what they're eating,
conscious about the environment, and what we're doing to it.
And that makes some people uncomfortable, I think that's what this is about.
>> Yeah, and when other people are conscious,
it makes them uncomfortable that they are choosing not to be, right?
>> Totally, I'm guilty of by the way, like when someone I'm eating dinner with
decides like they're gonna go for the healthy options,
they're watching their weight, like I hate that, I hate those people.
Don't be on a diet if you're gonna go out to dinner with me,
like it makes me feel bad about myself, that's why.
It's not about you, it's about me, I'm gonna need you to eat something unhealthy.
>> I'll even have that when like I'll be real, if I'm going out to dinner,
I'm gonna get a cocktail or I'm gonna get a glass of wine.
Like if I'm going out to dinner, I'm doing that experience and part of that,
because I don't ever have to drive here in New York.
So like I guess I don't think about it that much, but when someone's like,
I'm not gonna tonight, like 1000% screw you.
Like how dare you impose you woke more or less onto me, like come on?
I mean, but it's obviously such a childish impulse, and
the reality is that that's how conservatives think.
They are so threatened by other people making choices that
are conscious in their view and living by their own morality.
That anything that deviates from the norm or
how they grew up is perceived as a threat and an imposition, and
actually more than that it's perceived as like a violation of their rights.
That's how they frame it, and that's why someone like Jordan Peterson,
who I just imitated their has salience, because like trans people,
they're making their own choices and they exist.
Wow, I mean, that reflects on me that I can't accept them et cetera, so
it's just the standard reactionary mind.
>> Yeah, 100% agree with you on that.
>> But I love barrel, I'll say I do like rap, because I love biscuits, and gravy,
and I love potatoes and fried chicken.
Are you kidding me?
I used to go like all the time relatives in Pennsylvania, they had them there.
>> The one thing that I do really like in their menu is I don't
even know what they call it, but it's like a hash brown.
It's hash browns, but it's like baked in cheese, and it's just so
bad for you and so delicious.
Like I love that item, and that's what I always get, and
they have like the the toast that they do a little hole in, and
then they crack an egg in the hole.
That's usually what I order, because it's simple,
I think it's called egg in a hole or something, it's delicious, it's weird.
The weird things that southerners eat, I'm kidding,
I'm sure we have that here in California somewhere.