Making Memories with Your Family at Cracker Barrel

Making Memories with Your Family at Cracker Barrel

Today my wife and I took our two oldest granddaughters
to Cracker Barrel in Norman, OK.

It’s one of my wife’s favorite places to eat, along with Red Lobster,
Olive Garden, and Charleston’s.

We don’t really visit the restaurant in Norman that often, but when
we travel we like to stop at Cracker Barrel so we can eat and shop.

The real name of this restaurant is Cracker Barrel Old Country Store.
That’s where they get you. It is really genius marketing.

You get the people to stop in and eat, but you make them walk through your store of merchandise and snack items on their way in and their way out!
So, you are forced to see the “Store” and not just eat the food.

Making Memories with Your Family

Oh, one thing about Cracker Barrel, they are known for displaying
old and interesting items from the past.

They may be antiques or just unique. You could spend a lot of time
in each restaurant looking and studying the different articles, from
photographs, farm implements, shoes, toys, record albums, musical
instruments and much more.

It’s almost like a museum.

Another thing that Cracker Barrel does is make you feel like you
are having fun while you eat.  They have rocking chairs outside
for you to rock in before and after your meal.

They also have giant tic-tac-toe board games inside and outside
the restaurant.  Kids of all ages love to play these oversized games.
And at each table they not only have a keresone lamp, but they
provide you with a small game made out of a triangle piece of wood
and plastic golf tees.


Who would’ve thought such a simple
toy would be such fun to play.

You can see in the photograph that my seven year old granddaughter
was able to end up with only 2 tees left.
She beat my record of 3 remaining pegs.
I do remember I was able to get down to just one, but this was years ago.
I don’t remember the secret to it.  Perhaps you do. Leave it below in the comments.

So, I haven’t even talked about the food!

I love to order meatloaf and fried okra with mashed potatoes while
my wife likes chicken pot pie, or dumplings, or roast beef.
Sometimes we’ll go for the catfish.  Fried, of course.

And once in a while we just show up on Saturday morning for
breakfast. They have pretty good pancakes and hash brown casserole.

Today I enjoyed a hamburger steak with a slice of colby cheese on it and
green beans. It was excellent and helped me stay true to low carb eating.

All in all, Cracker Barrel is a fantastic place to eat, have fun, and shop.
Plus you’ll see interesting items from the past, enjoy the heat from the
large open fireplace, and sit in the glow of the kerosene lamp.

They serve good food at reasonable prices.

Go visit a Cracker Barrel today!

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Making Memories with Your Family