The conservative outcry over Cracker Barrel’s new logo is apparently yesterday’s news. Now, at least one prominent right-winger is having a tizzy over the restaurant chain’s tableside peg game.
The peg game, with its unique directions, has been a way for hungry customers to occupy their time while waiting for their orders since 1960. The directions on the game have now changed and, in the eyes of one conservative, just gotten too nice.
The goal of the game is to whittle down the number of pegs on the board to one through a series of “jumping” pegs, not unlike checkers. Previously, directions on the game explained that people who have only one peg left on the board are geniuses, while people with two pegs left are “pretty smart.” However, if you leave three pegs, the game considers you “dumb,” while anyone who leaves four pegs is an “EG-NO-RA-MOOOSE.”
That was the old game. New peg games have removed the playful insults and instead say, “leave three or more ― no reason to be embarrassed. Try again.”
The new wording was the last straw — or peg? — for Sean Davis, the CEO of The Federalist. He took to X on Wednesday to gripe about the change to anyone who might be looking for a new silly reason to get worked up over something that doesn’t matter in the long run:
