"The term "cracker-barrel" was first used in 1916, and it emerged from the country stores of the era. Also, actual barrels of crackers. The phrase "cracker-barrel" was inspired by the barrels full of soda crackers that were for sale in the country's country stores. Each barrel stored the popular soda crackers (much like the Southern-favorite saltine crackers or Northern-favorite common crackers), and visitors to the stores sat around the barrels chatting and catching up on the day's news, hence the "friendly homespun character" "

Sigh. Place the anger where it belongs,this is not racist. Sambos? Yeah that was racist. The cleveland indians? Racist as hell. White Castle. I'm offended