WALSH: Cracker Barrel Apologizes For Racist ‘Noose’ In One Of Its Restaurants. It Was Just A Cord For A Soldering Iron.
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WALSH: Cracker Barrel Apologizes For Racist ‘Noose’ In One Of Its Restaurants. It Was Just A Cord For A Soldering Iron.

Matt Walsh

When I go to Cracker Barrel, I am focused on stuffing as much chicken pot pie or meat loaf as possible into my face. But customer Alfonso Robinson, on a recent trip, was apparently more concerned with finding something, anything, to be offended by. And of course he found it — in the form of a cord hanging from the ceiling.

Robinson, deciding that the cord had a sinister look to it, sent out an outraged tweet declaring that “someone at Cracker Barrel” needs to “explain” why there were “nooses” adorning the restaurant. The answer is that there weren’t any nooses. The “noose” was in fact the cord of an antique soldering iron, which had been there, says the store manager, for 22 years.

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