I solved my Cracker Barrel problem years ago. I don't eat there

[paleotn]

5. Food culture I suppose. What you're use to. Cracker Barrel attempts to mass produces a cuisine I was born to....

And generally do an adequate job of it. Pales compared to some regional mom and pop's who really know what the hell they're doing. But I hold my complaints....such as saw mill gravy that's been sitting around so long it's taken on the constancy of plaster...because mass producing magic for the masses is difficult at best.

My mom's holiday breakfasts were light years ahead of anything Cracker Barrel can do.....fluffy scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, country ham or sausage or bacon, and to die for red eye gravy on scratch biscuits that seem to float in the air. Topped off with peach or strawberry jam from the prior summer....Mom's little jars of sunshine....on what biscuits were left.

My diet the last 30 years is vastly lower in salt and fat than my ancestors, but occasionally I still need a "fix." Cracker Barrel fills that need to a degree. Better than nothing. Neither me or my wife have ever been able to completely replicate our mother's magic. Even with the same cast iron skillets who's origin is lost in the distant past.