In late August 2025, chain restaurant Cracker Barrel updated its logo to remove the "Uncle Herschel" character that had been present since 1977. Some people decried the rebrand as "woke" while others simply called it "bland,

A redesign of Cracker Barrel's iconic logo has customers vowing to boycott and slamming CEO Julie Felss Masino.

According to the latest financial reports, two of the three largest shareholders of Cracker Barrel stock are Blackrock, Inc. and the Vanguard Group, Inc ., the champions of woke capitalism, who obviously control this iconic restaurant chain lock, stock and barrel.

He once escaped a chain gang. He once shot and killed a man in a fight and was serving time for the crime in Huntsville when the governor paid a visit to the prison, and Lead Belly made up a song on the spot asking to be released—which the governor did.