I saw the jokes about the name change a few times, and went looking for what the name even meant. I didn’t expect it to be so literal, it feels like an odd format to ship crackers in
The name specifically ties into the history of what Cracker Barrel is trying to replicate: An old country store. Back when small towns often only had a few businesses, country stores were not just for selling food and supplies; they were a community gathering place. During this time, soda crackers, which are another name for saltines, were shipped to these stores in big wooden barrels to prevent them from breaking during transit. After the crackers were taken out, the barrels would be repurposed as tables that locals could sit around as they socialized. They were even used to hold checkerboards, which remain a Cracker Barrel staple.
Because reusability.
What I want to know is why the fuck we don’t just use barrels today.
Round containers aren’t ideal for transportation, for one. Square fits into square with no gaps. Hexagons fit together with no gaps but they don’t fit into squares without gaps
Round containers are more durable.
We learned this lesson in the Spanish American War, where the major cause of death was food poisoning from meats in square cans
We do. they’re just bigger and more space efficient:
(And they’re reused just like barrels were. That’s how Walmart got all that radioactive shrimp).
Wtf. Those are crazy inefficient.
Sail boats are infinitely more efficient.
Majority of products in your apartment/house come from cargo ships.
Yeah, that’s a problem. We need to make fossil fuels prohibitively expensive so that more efficient systems like sail boats become the primary transport
i got two in my yard why don’t you
Because I’m not rich enough to have a yard :/