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Comment by Stratoscope

5 days ago

I hope they go Full Cracker Barrel on this:

1. Original logo has country charm and soul.

2. Replaced with a modern soulless logo.

3. Customer outrage!

4. Company (or open source project) comes to its senses and returns to old logo.

https://media.nbcboston.com/2025/08/cracker-barrel-split.jpg

(n.b. The Cracker Barrel Rebellion is sometimes associated with MAGA. I am very far from that, but I have to respect when people of any political stripe get something right.)

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b00ty4breakfast  4 days ago

the funny thing about the Cracker Barrel brouhaha is that the new one still looked like something you'd find on a pack of matches from a hotel bar in the 70s.

swyx  5 days ago

ah, the New Coke Gambit

  • acomjean  5 days ago

    Ah New Coke… Oddly I liked new coke better. My most 80s possession is a new coke can with max headroom on it.

    They had both new and “classic” for a while co existing.

    • jkaplowitz  4 days ago

      > Oddly I liked new coke better.

      Fun fact: so did most focus groups and (I think?) blind taste tests when it was just presented as a new drink, but they tended to be horrified by the idea of it actually replacing classic Coke. The problem with that switch was mostly psychological / cultural, not chemical.

      Also, Diet Coke, which remains quite popular, is still based on the New Coke formula except with the sweetener swapped out. The no-calorie version of classic Coke is Coke Zero. The Coca-Cola Company has been working to increase Coke Zero's popularity, and it is now much more popular than it used to be, but I think Diet Coke continues to be more popular than Coke Zero even now.

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