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By Bobby Ross Jr. | Religion Unplugged
NAMPA, Idaho — I exited off Interstate 84 and straight into the nation’s latest culture war.
Unintentionally, I should stress.
A reporting trip brought me to the Pacific Northwest this past weekend. After flying 1,900 miles — via an L-shaped route from Oklahoma City to Phoenix to Boise — I picked up my rental car and steered west.
About 3 p.m., my growling stomach reminded me I’d missed lunch.
So when I spotted a Cracker Barrel about 20 miles outside the Idaho capital, I decided to indulge — and have a little fun with my Facebook friends. After all, I’d seen a few of them posting about the chain’s new logo.
“Please, Cracker Barrel, don’t mess with the pancakes,” quipped my friend Rob Long, who lives in Lebanon, Tennessee, where Cracker Barrel is based. “That’s all I ask.”
I snapped a picture of the refreshed menu and teased online, “I was gonna eat here, but then I noticed they have a new logo. Just kidding. I’m hungry. I’m definitely gonna eat here.”
Uh oh.
I inadvertently ventured into a full-fledged ideological war zone. As I waited for my chicken and dumplings to arrive, I realized the serious nature of the brouhaha for a lot of folks.
This column appears in the online magazine Religion Unplugged.
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