Lead Stories's video: Fact Check: Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Is NOT Named For A Barrel Of Slaver s Whips

Read full story here: https://hoax-alert.leadstories.com/2021/02/fact-check-cracker-barrel-old-country-store-is-not-named-for-a-barrel-of-whips.html FACT CHECK: CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE IS NOT NAMED FOR A BARREL OF SLAVER'S WHIPS Does the name and logo of the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store originate from a barrel of whips? And further, did "blacks call whites 'crackers' from the crack of the whip"? There are two different claims here, the first is false, and the second is partly false. The trademarked name Cracker Barrel Old Country Store was named after the original old-fashioned way that soda crackers were packed, shipped and sold -- in bulk, by the pound from a barrel. The term "cracker barrel" eventually became an adjective at least as far back as 1916, to suggest the friendly character of an old-fashioned country store. The term "cracker" as an adjective to describe a person has dueling origins. One collection of evidence points back to Scotland where the term cracker meant boastful. The commonly cited origin has to do with where a person is from, typically in the southern U.S., from Florida or Georgia, and is only used for people who were the earliest settlers in that place. Yes, the person called a cracker may have gotten that name from the crack of a whip, but it was not the whip of a slave-owner, but of a cowboy driving cattle in the thick marshy landscape of Florida, the Carolinas and Georgia.