It was a happy ending for this teen and his chicken.
A Mississippi teen was recently reunited with his pet rooster after it went missing in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Alabama.
Thomas Ramsey, 18, was headed home from a Civil War reenactment in Springhill, Tennessee, and stopped for lunch at a Cracker Barrel in Cullman, Alabama with is friends and his rooster, Peep, on Jan. 31, The Cullman Times reported.
Ramsey told the outlet he left the rooster on a leash tied to his truck, as he has done many times before, and went inside the restaurant with his friends.
When the group returned to the car an hour later, Peep was gone.
“I went back into the Cracker Barrel and it was very hard for me to say this with a straight face, even though I was panicking: ‘Do you have cameras in the parking lot? I think someone stole my chicken,'” Ramsey recalled.
He drove around the area several times in search of Peep, and even checked a local farmer’s chicken coop with no luck.
Fortunately, about 30 minutes away from his home, Ramsey received good news that a man found Peep in the parking lot of the Cracker Barrel he visited earlier.
Farmer John Watson drove with Peep to Birmingham where the rooster reunited with Ramsey.
“I believe in paying it forward,” Watson told The Cullman Times. “Yes, it was ‘just a chicken,’ but it was his and he clearly cared for it.”
>Cracker Barrel I've never heard of this euphemism before. Explain.
Kayden Carter
It’s a restaurant
Jacob Harris
>Do you have cameras in the parking lot? I think someone stole my chicken You know a place is bad if you’re worried about someone grabbing your cock
Juan Bell
"Cracker" is a derogatory term for ignorant southern rednecks and "Barrel" is a dogwhistle that the restaurant caters to white trash with regards to the food and decor. In short, garbage food for the dregs of a dead and dying group of 65+ boomers.
Brayden Roberts
This guy is shitposting. Cracker Barrel refers to how soda crackers were literally sold in the barrels
Elijah Ward
>Cracker Barrel refers to how soda crackers were literally sold in the barrels >whie trash southern Crackers enjoy baked sawdust sprinkled with salt that are stored exposed to air and are as stale as their life At least jew pickles were stored in a barrel full of brine and remained crispy, but ofc they're a little too spicy for Crackers.
Kayden Price
Slow news day, eh?
Adrian Gomez
>...AINT FOUND A WAYY TO KILL ME YET...
Matthew Ramirez
I have cancelled *racker barrel and informed the management That I will no longer eat there until they change their name to Soda biscuit Barrel
Zachary Williams
A boy and his cock
Jose Thompson
Actually cracker is a term for slave owners since they used to whip their slaves and the sound a whip makes is a cracking noise. Barrels were used to hold cotton before it was processed and turned into bails. So the term Cracker Barrel is basically a call back to slavery. Don't believe me? They include a whip in the logo.
Kevin Hughes
>They include a whip in the logo Looks more like stylized cursive than a whip
Joseph Cruz
It's also telling that you never see any blacks eating there although that might be explained by the fact blacks have much better taste in food than to eat the insipid SYSCO canned and frozen pablum they serve.
Joshua Lewis
Except the text on the logo isn't cursive, so your damage control fails even the most basic of scrutiny.
The best way to describe Cracker Barrel's food is they're Jim Crow Applebees.
Christopher Gomez
Do you people go outside or you do form all of your knowledge on white people from bootleg Goodtimes DVDs?
Henry Gray
t. Cracker
Brayden Russell
Point is that it doesn't look like a whip
Brandon Torres
>They include a whip in the logo. files.catbox.moe/ngxab8.jpg Here are a collection of their logos throughout the year. I had never seen a cracker barrel logo before and I've never eaten it one... And honestly it feels like you're really pushing this and selectively interpreting something to be something much different than what was meant
Henry Parker
This is potentially apocryphal and the term has been used as far back as the 1600s with slightly different connotations over the years. It is actually pretty interesting from a linguistics standpoint and raises some philosophical questions over whether the true origin really matters if everyone in the modern day decides to believe in a different origin. In a different way, it is interesting that there is such a debate over whether the term is pejorative or merely descriptive.
Ian Collins
It looks like a whip, but sometimes it's in the logo and sometimes it isn't. The fact it's in it is pretty damning, especially given the discrimination history of the chain.
Xavier Taylor
You idiot they used to sell soap crackers in barrels called CRACKER BARRELS
