Cracker Barrel Syrup Train

best pancakes on the planet, try the pecan 

Now that's what I call a good ad. 

Sweet!!!

That's a hard ad to watch.  It makes me want to head for Cracker barrel for breakfast and go play with my trains. 

 

Thanks, Frank!

 

Art

Pushes all my buttons, pancakes and trains!!

They should put the syrup in a tanker and then a mini dispensing handle, they could move the train table to table.

Not a fan of breakfast in any restaurant (I've never liked heavy breakfasts) but I always hit Cracker Barrel if I'm in Huntsville doing the NASA thing, otherwise the nearest one is more than 2 states away from where I am.

Love their dinners, and their service is always the best.

Frank,

    Great add for CB, a great place for breakfast, lunch and dinner no doubt about it, the way cool train makes me want to get in the car and go eat breakfast for sure.

PCRR/Dave

Had to quit eating there so much, when they wouldn't let you substitute for eggs..

(you can weazel around that by ordering the dinner for breakfast, which gives you

all of the choices, such as their good hashbrowns, baked apples, and country ham..

NO other restaurant country ham except for a few non-chains in Ky. come close to

this last....).  If I am with someone I can foist the eggs off on, we will order "Grandma's", which is not on the menu.  That will be all ham, no sampler, and the

pancakes, and means you will not have to spring for lunch that day, and just snack

for dinner.  The problem with the Cracker Barrel in York is that it is way south away from the motels and the fairgrounds.

 

Question?  IS the Sturbridge, Mass. (eaten there) the farthest east Cracker Barrel, and the Billings or Butte, Mont. the farthest west (eaten there, but I forget which).  (none

in Maine, Vt. or N.H.?)

Upon reading the title a vision of a syrup version of the SP Tank Train Eric Siegel reviewed popped into my head....

I just looked it up and found one in Idaho. That's the furthest northwest one I could find. I live in WA state, several hundred miles from the nearest one.

Love it!

 

Peter

colorado hirailer -

 

Very complicated post.

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There are CB's all over the place in my part of the country - but not ONE near my house.

Of course, I live in a pompous little upscale (I'm not) suburb of Mobile, so CB is far too low-brow...you should have heard the wailing when they opened a Wal-Mart just outside the city limits a few years ago (now the town wants to incorporate the Wal-Mart site...taxes, y'know). 

 

The CB dishes can be enjoyable (not all of them - but whose are?) for what it is, and the places are predictable, which is priceless after a long day on the road and you just want some coffee and a decent meal. I'll leave the "adventures" to someone else.

 

The "General Store" is a little creepy.

Great commercial.  I'm gonna show it to my Grandaughter, who, at 16, just started working at the local Cracker Barrel restaurant.  By the way, the next item up was the instructions and recipe for my favorite Cracker Barrel item:  Their hashbrown potato casserole.  Now that i know how, I've got to try that!

 

Paul Fischer

I hear you there. I've had too many bad experiences with 'food on the road' that I'd rather be boring and go with what tastes good, sticks to my ribs and won't likely leave me praying for a clean restroom (and zooming along at breakneck speeds) about 45 miles down the road after I've eaten it.

 

 

 

Yeah, but it's still fun sometimes. I love the throwback sodas you can get there. There's enough of an eclectic bunch of stuff you never know what they'll have.

There is a CB in South Portland, Maine.  Just 3 miles from my house.   NH has one in Londonderry.  4 in MA.  And one in Rhode Island. 

I also love the CB. You can always get the kids meal - and at 77 that's something.
Ray.

Great advert 

Never tried Cracker Barrel.....have to check it out next time I am over your side of the pond. Always gone to Waffle House..

 

Nick

Since finding food at York is a biggie, that has been discussed on here, I was pleased

to see that a chain that also offers breakfasts (just on the weekends at most locations,

although the one in high tourist Williamsburg, Va. had breakfast all week, and they are

testing other locations) is now in Lancaster, on your way to Strasburg.

Some of their clentele in some areas will really horrify D500's neighbors.  I wonder

what restaurants are upscale in the Mobile area?  You'd expect fish.....but someplaces

in the south known for really good fish are little more than shacks....I ate at a really hard to find one on a river in S. Carolina and another in Vicksburg, Miss.   The place that is recent to Lancaster is Golden Corral.  Since that is a high tourist area, I'd expect it would be one to offer breakfast every day, if their apparent test works out. That would give people at York a chance to try it.  (no tie or tuxedo required).  They have those far west, too, at least as Casper, Wyo. When they had the TCA Convention in Burlington, Vt., I was surprised that the Walmart was way out from town, too. and hard to find unless you know where it is.   I had heard of those objections to Walmart, so wondered if that was what happened with Burlington. Of course, Cracker Barrel, and Golden Corral are plain home cooking, with not a French speaking chef in sight.  Golden Corral is a buffet, with a wide selection, and all you can eat, so not for those that don't like big breakfasts  (or lunches, or dinners)....but they serve from lunch on. but now starting to serve breakfast items all day for those open for breakfast.  I have used travel guides, such as AAA and Fodor's to find different, but recommended, places to eat while traveling.  They do not usually list chains such as these. 

 

For breakfasts I prefer Bob Evans restaurants except when in York for the TCA shows I like to go to the "Round the Clock" diner.  Good food, good service, and good prices.

Peggy and I had our evening meal at the Cracker Barrel in New Stanton, PA. yesterday. I had my standard order of pancakes and sugar cured ham. I always ask for two bottles of syrup. They definitely have the best pancakes. 

Very cool use for model trains......... Take note, 3-rail tubular track.

Gary

I use to go there for their pancakes and pure maple syrup. Then when they diluted the syrup I quit going. Neat commercial tho

When I was younger pancakes were my second favorite thing!! Now they're still my second favorite but I can't remember what my first favorite was!

Cracker Barrel has a lot of nostalgic toys in their store. I would like to see them make a Lionel Cracker Barrel set.

I know what my first favorite thing is

I really do know but I didn't want to kill a tasty thread!!

being that 99% of places don't even have maple syrup and those that do charge extra, I can live with the watered down syrup. have you priced maple syrup lately, more than $50 a gallon and much more in smaller quantities.

A friend who tapped maple trees for syrup as a child, also asks for two bottles, loves their pancakes, and doesn't object to the syrup.  Those two are offset by the fact I don't need or get any on my pseudo old farm boy blackberry and whipped cream CB pancakes.  Some of the menu is "southern cooking", and may not be popular or familiar

in other parts of the country.  The waitress in Sturbridge, Mass. said she did not like

the country ham I always order.  CB's country ham is cured just right, not heavily salted as some I can find you in Kentucky.