Cracker Barrel Quality
Sep 6, 2010 | 9:09 pm
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Cracker Barrel Quality
So tonight I went to Cracker Barrel for supper. I was so disappointed to find out that the fried chicken dinner is only available on Sunday nights... I ended up having pancakes instead. What a disappointment.
It is quite rare for me to eat out, let alone pancakes and I couldn't believe how greasy they were. If I didn't know better I would say they were deep fried or cooked in the same oil they use to fry other things.
Anyone ever work there? How exactly do they cook them that they taste so greasy?
I just wish I could get my $9.70 back I wasted on my meal.
It is quite rare for me to eat out, let alone pancakes and I couldn't believe how greasy they were. If I didn't know better I would say they were deep fried or cooked in the same oil they use to fry other things.
Anyone ever work there? How exactly do they cook them that they taste so greasy?
I just wish I could get my $9.70 back I wasted on my meal.
Sep 7, 2010 | 11:11 am
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Although I will never set foot in a Cracker Barrel, I can tell you that it is physically impossible to deep fry a pancake without winding up with a fritter.
Sep 7, 2010 | 11:25 am
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Making greasy pancakes is not much different from making greasy
anything else: make sure the fat, whatever it is, is at a low enough
temperature that it doesn't drain off well, et voila (or viola, as people
say).
Cracker Barrels used to be okay in, say, the '90s, but since then I
saw a rapid decline, for reasons I don't know. I stopped eating
there, even in the south, even when very hungry, around 2000.
anything else: make sure the fat, whatever it is, is at a low enough
temperature that it doesn't drain off well, et voila (or viola, as people
say).
Cracker Barrels used to be okay in, say, the '90s, but since then I
saw a rapid decline, for reasons I don't know. I stopped eating
there, even in the south, even when very hungry, around 2000.
Sep 8, 2010 | 6:08 am
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we don't have Cracker Barrel near where we live
however it has become a tradition for my family to stop by one out in Pennsylvania when we go on a trip there, and lately it has been far worse than what attracted me to this restaurant chain before
the service is the same but the food quality has went down, I think
however it has become a tradition for my family to stop by one out in Pennsylvania when we go on a trip there, and lately it has been far worse than what attracted me to this restaurant chain before
the service is the same but the food quality has went down, I think
Sep 8, 2010 | 10:55 am
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You had your heart set on fried chicken. That wouldn't be greasier than pancakes?
I agree that CB has been in a downward spiral for years. I went last week and couldn't find bunny-in-a-hole - is that what it was called? - where they fry an egg in a cutout hole in a slice of sourdough bread. I still like the catfish with a side of okra, but the hashbrown casserole is not what it once was.
I agree that CB has been in a downward spiral for years. I went last week and couldn't find bunny-in-a-hole - is that what it was called? - where they fry an egg in a cutout hole in a slice of sourdough bread. I still like the catfish with a side of okra, but the hashbrown casserole is not what it once was.
Sep 8, 2010 | 1:23 pm
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