Originally Posted by zcat18

Well, alright, then. Everybody has made their position on Cracker Barrel abundantly clear.

I fear that the point of my post (which attempted used CB as a somewhat tongue-in-cheek example, though I do maintain it as a guilty pleasure) might have been lost. Incidentally, GadgetFreak's most recent post illustrates that point well: haute cuisine can be forgettable or, at the very least, non-habit forming under many circumstances, but once you've had the very best indigenous ::insert ethnic/national/regional title here:: food, it can be difficult to appreciate or even stomach the inauthentic "Americanized"--or westernized, or commercialized, or whatever-ized--version of the same.