Imagine you were a big wheel down at the cracker factory before the recession hit.
At Passover, millions of Jews forgo leavened grain and eat matzo, tricking out the cracker in various ways to mask its essential, incontrovertible blandness.
At the Cracker Barrel restaurant, the hostess knows him as the polite man in pajamas who asks for a corner table, where he can keep a lookout.
Davis is willing, so as soon as the Cracker Barrel Electric Highway is in place (next summer sometime), we have a date to run the route in a Leaf (or other fine electric car that the manufacturer lets us borrow).
As a result, even if your uninspired work down at the cracker factory yielded nothing more than cost-of-living raises over the past 40 years, you would become more susceptible to the AMT over time purely because the exemption was not increasing in lock-step with your wages.
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Full of kids, dogs and golf clubs, it is prosperous and unremarkable, except for details like the beat-up cracker box brimming with the household pot stash and the note on the fridge that reads: "Gretchen called: Probation!"
Motion-sensitive HSS emitters can flog Doritos on one end of the snack aisle and hawk Cracker Jack on the other.
Dredge each in the bowl of cracker crumbs to coat thoroughly and arrange on backing sheets.
The devices, which are cards about the size of a saltine cracker, can be inserted into a slot on the side of a notebook computer.
Hence the focus on Tennessee when Cracker Barrel, which has 597 outlets, could have put the ECOtality Blink stations anywhere.
Eight months after the launch of what seemed like a promising business, Brad Saltzman and Stephen Bikoff are scraping the bottom of their cracker barrel.
She won two Bafta TV awards for her performances in Bennett's Talking Heads monologues A Cream Cracker Under the Settee and Waiting for the Telegram.
The movie is a metaphysical Cracker Jack box without so much as a shiny prize in its empty-calories depths.
In the most recent quarter, Cracker Barrel posted a 0.2% increase in comparable store traffic, with a 3.3% increase in same-restaurant sales.
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Another reason to like Cracker Barrel is the presence of an activist investor helping to keep pressure on the company to improve performance: Sardar Biglari, the 35-year old Iranian-American manager of the Lion Fund and CEO of publicly traded Biglari Holdings (BH).
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Sylvester Graham (of Graham cracker fame) was the pioneer of American food fads.
It is also against the law to sell caps, cracker snaps, novelty matches, party poppers, serpents and throw-downs to anyone who is under 16.
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It has the reek of the black-frocked missionary sniffing down his nose at the primitives animism without ever wondering if his own wine-and-a-cracker deity might not be just as phony as the numinous spirits of the riverbeds and pine forests.
"I heard a cracker-like sound near the entrance, then I saw people running helter-skelter, " member of parliament Kharbala Sain told Reuters.
The central element will be a naphtha cracker, a stainless steel vessel that under intense heat and pressure breaks long hydrocarbons into plastics precursors.
The firms indicted include Sears, Roebuck, Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores and Westar Energy.
But the thing that has really changed is not the move from All-American snacks like Cracker Jacks to gourmet foods.
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At MPR headquarters--known as the "Klingdom"--the man who took Lake Wobegon's cracker-barrel lore to a waiting nation shakes his head at such talk.
Cracker Barrel is partnering with ECOtality and the federally sponsored EV Project, which is following Nissan Leaf rollout markets.
Nevertheless, Cracker Barrel is taking a plunge into the unknown with 24 electric charging stations (half of them with ultra-fast 480-volt DC) in a Tennessee triangle that includes Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga.
If it's anything like the one this afternoon, they'll have missed a cracker.
Cracker Barrel has maintained relatively stable stock price growth over the last two years.
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