@@badladyami While okra is technically a fruit, it is not insanely starchy. It is considered a superfood, because it is low in carbohydrates, high in fiber and high in nutrients, particularly vitamin K and calcium. Of course, covering it in batter and deep frying it does kind of ruin the healthiness of it, but it does make it delicious.
I grow it every year, it's not starchy, if you want to try it s different way, place some fresh pods (after you cut the tips) on top of your green beans while they boil, it will steam them tender, but be prepared it's slimy 😂
Almost all Cracker Barrels are just off an interstate exit. When you are on a road trip, they are great places to stop, use the restroom, stretch your legs, do a little shopping, buy snacks for the road, have a decent meal, maybe buy a gift for someone you are going to visit.
Chicken-fried is how it's cooked, it's a cutlet that's breaded and fried like chicken. Can be a cutlet of steak or chicken, hence, chicken-fried steak and chicken-fried chicken.
Not sure if you said it, my phones acting up… but at Cracker Barrel, it’s actually a combination of chicken and Turkey... Battered and deep fried. Honestly there are much better places to get great food! I know @L3WG is slobber knocking at just the thought of our food!
@@jack-of-all-trades1234Fried chicken refers to whole pieces of chicken coated in batter and fried. Then someone decided to coat steak with chicken style batter and fry it; calling it chicken fried steak. Then someone did the same with a chicken cutlet...hence the redundant name.
Chicken Fried Chicken is boneless skinless chicken breast that has been flattened out and fried up in seasoned batter just like Chicken Fried Steak and normally covered in a buttermilk gravy with salt and pepper to taste, it's super delicious! Fried Okra is a green vegetable that looks close to zucchini or a small cucumber, it's normally about as round as your finger and and sliced up and fried in a cornmeal batter with seasoning and sometimes serve with gravy, it is also a southern favorite!
Cracker barrel has rv and bus parking and loves tourists. Its one of my favorite chains. Btw, part of the building is their gift shop. That's what you were seeing.
As a freshwater fish, some of them can also be found in freshwater lakes. I caught some Bullheads when I was a kid. Not for eating though. And I wasn't trying to catch them in particular.
Biscuits and cornbread ALWAYS eat with butter. Cornbread can be all kinds of shapes including like those muffins. The key is make it like a "cake" texture instead of crumbly dry, IMO
Only time I don’t load my cornbread with butter is if it’s either sweet cornbread or spicy cornbread. That said Spicy cornbread made with mixed diced peppers and some bacon fat mixed in the batter, is my preferred cornbread.
My then 85 year old mother got ID'ed after ordering a glass of wine at a restaurant last year during a multi generational family dinner where the youngest person at the table was in their mid 30's
When you did the tour of restaurants in each state Cafe Du Monde was featured for New Orleans, LA. They are famous for their chicory coffee and beignets! They even talked about it and showed them. Go back and watch.
I grew up in rural Georgia in the middle of farmland. To me, Cracker Barrel is the cheap copy of southern cooking in the same way that Olive Garden is to Italian.
It's a little closer to the real thing than Olive Garden is to Italian food. The dishes are basically same, just not done as well as home made or more of a mom and pop restaurant. I'm not really a fan of it, but I could see why a Brit might like the novelty of it.
I'm in Ky, and I agree. It's okay but not as good as good ol' home cookin. I love fried okra, but Cracker barrel is not the same. Same as biscuits and gravy.
@@ScottieRC I live in TN. I love Cracker Barrel but I usually go for the breakfast, though their biscuits aren’t great. It’s great when you’re on the road traveling.
It is a restaurant that focuses on the area that it is in. It also focuses on travelers. And so when you go in the door, you walk into a gift shop. Each of the restaurants have a gift shop at the front door. You have to walk into it and get to the restaurantso if you are traveling, you can buy things to take home with you for your friends and family from that state and or area.
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Crackel Barrel was where our family would often meet up with other family to catch up and enjoy a meal together if time was too limited for a whole day trip to grandmas house. It's not a 5* michelin restaurant. It's a chain with food that's good enough for 99% and better than some mother's cooking. Good atmosphere and service.
Headquarters in Tennessee, they are a chain specializing in southern cuisine. They also have a great gift shop! Good food! We live in East Tennessee, and go there frequently.
And the best Christmas ornaments. You can get unique gifts. Old time candy, drinks, soaps, & toys. I have one of their rocking chairs on my front porch now. Love it.
Okra is a vegetable, popular in the south. It has a very slimy juice as it has naturally occurring thickener so its popular in soups like gumbo. Its an acquired taste, not for everyone.
Great reaction! You have to try Cracker Barrel when you get chance and now you know you can shop and eat in the same place! If you want to try some BBQ you are more than welcome to ours to try out what we’ve learnt so far. Keep up the good reactions
Some place ID, no matter the age. Most places ID if you look under 40. You can get chicken fried chicken or steak. The entrance of Cracker Barrel is set up like an old-fashioned mercantile.
I love how baby girl is thoroughly unbothered with waiting to be served the pot pie and is happily digging in! 😄 Eta - catfish is my favorite fish to eat! It's soft and doesn't have a strong flavor, so it's delicious breaded and fried and drizzled with fresh lime juice. 😋
That's a small-medium sized pie for America. Pretty big for a chicken pot pie, but not impressive for pie in general. Sam's Club usually sells pies that are about 12 inches across.
Our Cracker Barrel gets so crowded at times that it’s great to have the general Store to shop around in. You can find some nice stuff there. Cracker Barrel’s food is really good. You need to look up a video about eating actual beignets. The ones at Cracker Barrel on Norton nearly as good and they’re not shaped like that or small like that
12:20 Think back to when the boys at Jolly went noodling for catfish in the American South. they're river fish that live in mud. They'll always taste vaguely of the river where they were caught.
I know there are saltwater (along the coast of Florida) catfish too. I wonder which ones Josh and Ollie did, did they say? Was it a freshwater river? 😊
In most establishments that serve alcohol it is common that they ask for your ID because there are companies that audit for the state to see who is compliant on asking for ID’s to ensure no one is under-age and that the employees are doing their job as required by policy/law. If an employee gets caught not asking for an ID when serving alcoholic beverages and the “customer” just so happens to be an undercover auditor, the company could be fined/penalized and/or lose their liquor license from the state to purchase and sell alcoholic beverages. Great reaction bro! 👍🍻
I am 68 years old and still get asked to buy non-alcohol "beer" at the grocery store. Most stores have a sign that they ID anyone under 30, some at 35. Some bigger stores "stop at 100".
The full name for the restaurant is Cracker Barrel old country store. It’s based off of old stores that would also serve food in the country in the south.
Oh, Cracker Barrel's good. One of my favourite places to eat. Pancakes are awesome. It is a restaurant, but it has a giftshop as well. Big Red is also a brand of cinnamon chewing gum. chicken-fried chicken is chicken schnitzel (if you know what that is). chicken-fried steak is just steak schnitzel. Okra is a vegetable. ORCA is a killer whale
Chicken fried chicken is the same as chicken fried steak, but with chicken as the protein. Cracker Barrel is a very unpretentious family-friendly restaurant. Just good down home favorites. I don't have one in my neighborhood, but it is a sure bet to stop in on a road trip. Always friendly staff, rockers on the front porch if there is a wait, and you just might find a bit of Americana kitch to decorate your house with.
It kind of depends where you are, but in most cases Cracker Barrel is a love letter to the old days of southern country and the idea of the frontier general store. The food's not going to blow your mind, but there's a lot of classic comfort food dishes, and they're almost always located just off a major highway. So they're something of a staple of long road trips, when you need to take a break and get something to eat that helps you unwind and relax after driving all day. If you ever come to the United States and can swing through Coastal Virginia, I'll make sure to buy you lunch! :)
In Arizona location may not have a liquor license the liquor license is held by the corporation so if one location illegally sells to a minor then all the locations lose their ability to sell liquor. Better safe than sorry.
I currently work at Cracker Barrel! Near Nashville, Tennessee. Chicken Fried Chicken is just that there are two patties of chicken. I usually get the gravy on the side and dip the chicken. Get extra biscuits and save one pattie for the next morning when I make a chicken and biscuit. Cracker Barrel is the Old Country Store. So it's a southern vibe. We have candy no one else has, the sodas he was showing, tons of merchandise from sweaters and pajamas to iron skillets and every holiday decoration you can imagine! It will be an experience when you try it here for sure!
It's half a restaurant and half a gift shop. It's a bit expensive for me but I do love their chicken and dumplings whenever I crave it. And I do love their french toast for breakfast.
I usually go for (big) breakfasts when traveling. Sunday (fried) chicken is a great special as well. The original in Lebenon, Tennessee has some dishes not at the rest yet.
Okra is a pod vegetable with fuzzy pods full of small (edible) seeds. In its boiled state, the interior of the pod becomes somewhat slimy, but dusted with corn meal and fried, it can become a crispy, flavorful morsel that satisfies your diet's green veg requirement.
I've told the H family they need to cook some BBQ for other British react youtubers since they've gotten really into smoking meats American style, and they seemed open to the idea of it someday. Hope you get to collab with them, Lew!
Chicken Fried Chicken is basically what you may know as Schnitzel. And yes, if it's not prepared correctly, Catfish can taste earthy or muddy but it is in no way supposed to. If it does, somebody didn't know what they were doing lol 😊
Cracker barrel is my family's official road trip restaurant. Grandparents are southern so all us grand kids have fond memories of jumping out of the car to play checkers, rock in the chairs and play with the quirky toys while we waited for food.
Most places in the US have to ask for your ID no matter how old you look. They have an electronic system where they have to enter your ID or Driver license # and your birth year into the system as proof that they checked your ID. Came about because so many merchants were selling alcohol to minors.
BBQ Mac n Cheese is amazing, you should try it. Okra is a type of vegetable regional to the South United States, and its places like Craker Barrel that has taken it across the country. Its not unusual to find Americans from the MidWest or NorthEast who have never heard of it. Okra is usually fried, but you can also boil it in something like a gumbo. Chicken Fried Chicken is a chicken that has been pounded flat into a patty, then fixed exactly like you would a chicken fried steak. The only difference between the two is one is chicken and one is beef. That's litterally the only difference. Catfish is not technically seafood, its a mud fish found in rivers and lakes. It's taste is quite unique, unlike any other kinds of fish. I know people who hate seafood, but love catfish.
Upstate NY: we have a food truck that is only Mac & cheese. You can change up the cheese (American, Velveeta, cheddar, guyeere, etc) and/or add extra stuff. usually meat (bacon, lobster, pulled pork, chicken, etc...rarely veg too). Topped with buttered panko breadcrumbs. 3 hot sauces & 2 BBQ sauces available on the side.
I *love* fried okra. They basically take the seed pod from the plant, sliced it up, battered the pieces and is then fried. You have to pick it at the right time or it becomes too 'woody'
Howdy from Texas. Okra is a very versatile vegetable. It can be eaten raw or boiled if it's slimy juice doesn't bother you it's great. The slime inside the Okra is exactly why it's used in gumbos, stews and soups because it's a natural thickener. However, you can also have it breaded and fried, done right it loses its slimy juice and is simply deliciously crunchy. I grew up eating Okra every way you can have it. I'd often while playing outside go into my grandfather's vegetable garden and pick a few Okra right off the plant and eat it as a quick snack. MY grandmother used to slice the Okra very thin, bread it and fry it to the point of almost burning it so that it's natural sugars would caramelize giving it a slightly sweet and very satisfyingly crunchy texture that I just loved. You can also have them pickled. They sell them pickled in glass jars here, canned usually with tomatoes for a Southern delicacy Okra and tomatoes. And even sliced, breaded or unbreaded and frozen ready to fry up at a moments notice. The word " Gumbo" is actually a West African dialects word simply meaning Okra.
Chicken-fried is a type of frying where the meat is baptized in an egg bath as well as covered with a seasoned flour. Normal fried is just the flour. There is deep fried. We also have battered, which is where you dip the meat in a batter before frying. So a lot of time, when you go out, fried food will be named by type of frying such as chicken-fried steak or beer-battered chicken tenders.
Any time you hear (blank) fried (blank) the first part refers to the method of cooking and the second part refers to the item being cooked. Chicken fried is deep fried and country or southern fried is skillet or pan fried. So chicken fried chicken is chicken that is deep fat fried. Country fried Steak is also deep fried. Country fried or southern fried chicken or steak would be fried in a skillet or cast iron.
When tourists come in, there is a gift shop or souvenir shop attached to the restaurant. Also, okra, which is pronounced o-kra not ak-ra, is a green vegetable.
Okra is a pod vegetable originally from west Africa that is popular in Caribbean and Southern American cuisines. When raw, there's a clear, sticky "slime" inside. This is a thickener, and why is used to make gumbo (a stew popularized in Louisiana). Fried okra is just the pods, sliced across into bite-sized pieces and fried. Best with your hot sauce of choice!
CB has a mini gift shop up front. Toys, retro candy, holiday items, shirts, and other things young grandmothers would buy. Home cooking for fairly cheap.
Yes CFC is technically fried chicken but its the style its cooked and served. Floured, pounded(or not) chicken breast, fried in a pan, and covered in white gravy
Somebody send Lewis some Pillsbury pre-made biscuits. All you'd have to do, Lewis, is open up the container, put them on a baling tray, brush on some melted butter, and then bake.
Fried chicken is bone-in chicken pieces from all parts of the bird that are coated in flour. Chicken-fried chicken, however, is a flattened chicken breast that is dredged in flour, then dunked into an egg and buttermilk wash, and then back into the flour again.
Okra is technically a fruit but cooks like a vegetable, it grows from a plant that we can plant in the states. Okra is kinda hard to describe on what it’s like eating it but okra is used in gumbo and deep fried on its own. Also Lee u should try putting chopped ham or chopped up bacon in ur Mac and cheese.
Cracker Barrel, at certain times of the day or year, can be very crowded. To entertain the people while they wait their turn , you shop! Very cute stuff. More like a gift shop. I used to work near a Cracker Barrel, and my department would go for Christmas luncheon. I would also Christmas shop at the same time. Fun place!
Rootbeer is not alcohol. :) Get the blueberry pancakes and the thick sliced bacon when you go. If you want dinner, sugar cured ham with mashed potatoes and white gravy is good too!
Chicken fried chicken is usually deboned chicken that has been pounded into a cutlet, then dipped in egg, when a seasoned flour, then fried. Regular fried chicken is full bone pieces treated the same way. A chicken fried steak is a piece of beef, pounded and cooked the same way. Then you have pork tenderloin which is a piece of pork loin pounded thin, treated the same way and fried - all are delicious depending on the seasoning and gravy. Okra is a green vegetable, a sort of edible pod, it can be coated and fried whole, or after being cut in pieces as they did here. Okra will thicken stews and soups if added, however just a little tomato juice will cut the slime some people don't like.
I live in Georgia, and we have a lot of Meat and Threes, which is country cooking where you choose your meat dish and usually 3 veg or side dishes. Cracker Barrel is like a chain of those, with a more standardized way of cooking, seasoning and serving their dishes. You usually know what to expect from any dish you order at whatever location. I like to go there because I can buy my favorite cookie, which is Hydrox. Hydrox is the cookie that Oreo copied and then marketed them into oblivion. They were gone for many years, but now they are back, and I prefer them 100%. This couple did not try my favorite and usual go-to, which is the chicken and dumplings.
I was lucky enough for my 80yr old mom to come up on her birthday. She wanted to eat at Cracker Barrel. And I was lucky enough to get to go with her. She still drives , yes. Lol She is very strong headed and independent. Her drive was over an hour 1 way. I can't afford to eat there by myself.
Catfish is a bottom feeding fish. The muddiness of where they live comes through the taste. That is the earthy taste she is referring to. If you aren't usually a seafood person you usually won't like it. For okra - it's a vegetable. It goes into gumbo raw, but it is usually deep fried. Dip it into ranch dressing, and it's awesome.
Okra is a green vegetable. You have to like GREEN veggies Corn muffins are either baked in a muffin tin or mini bread loaf tin. That way the outside is crispy and the middle stays moist.
I love Cracker Barrel. It is sort of like eating at grandma's house. Really homey and I love their old time store with old fashioned candy, home accessories and decorations.
Cracker Barrel has traditional "country" foods. They have a store in the front that looks like a traditionally Country Store.People can browse the store while they are waiting to be seated for dinner. They have all of the old time sodas and candies to buy that you can't get almost anywhere else. So they are making money on you because you shop while you're waiting to eat and give them more money. Brilliant marketing. You can even buy the rocking chairs and the checkerboards that they have out on the porch for people to use when they are waiting for a table. Food is usually very good. It's wholesome food that makes you feel like you're getting a hug from Grandma, and they have tons of antique small appliances, signs, and other "country" things hanging from the walls. I love fried catfish. It's Okra, not an orca. It's a vegetable, and you either love it or hate it. I hate it because it has a slimy texture. I don't mind it in stews or soups like a gumbo, because the sliminess just helps to thicken the broth. But I cant' stand the way fried Okra feels in my mouth.
When you walk into all cracker barrells, you walk into an old-timey store. They have like candies and anacks from when you were a child that you dont see very much anymore. They have old fashioned clothes and clothes that reference things feom back in the day. They also have a few toys and unique and cutesie items.
In rural towns, you will often have a general store with a cafe or full restaurent attached. Cracker Barrel started that way in Lebanon, Tennessee - but now it's a pretty much nationwide corporation. IIRC only five states do not have one.
Okra is a green vegetable with a hollowed gooey center. If you ask me, it tastes best breaded and fried because it gives the outside a crunch with a soft center. Okra also gets used in stews and soups which I’m less of a fan of because the okra flavor is weaker. My mom won’t eat it though because she hates the texture 😂 But I’ve loved fried okra since I was a child. 10/10 if you ask me.
Mainly its a mix of different American comfort foods. My go-to order is corn batter fried catfish with hush puppies, turnip greens, and fried okra. *Okra is NOT an orca whale. Its a type of vegetable. And yes, there is a big gift shop at the entrance of the restaurant.
Basically, they take a chicken breast and slice it in half length wise keeping it as wide as possible. Then they hammer the hell out of it with a meat tenderize, bread it and deep fry it.
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14:59 Okra: Insanely starchy fruit.
Orca: Predatory aquatic mammal.
lol lol
@@badladyami While okra is technically a fruit, it is not insanely starchy. It is considered a superfood, because it is low in carbohydrates, high in fiber and high in nutrients, particularly vitamin K and calcium. Of course, covering it in batter and deep frying it does kind of ruin the healthiness of it, but it does make it delicious.
It's in my gumbo.
I grow it every year, it's not starchy, if you want to try it s different way, place some fresh pods (after you cut the tips) on top of your green beans while they boil, it will steam them tender, but be prepared it's slimy 😂
@@andyloy7809 Oh man, they are so good! I put them on top of my purple hull peas and steam them.
Almost all Cracker Barrels are just off an interstate exit. When you are on a road trip, they are great places to stop, use the restroom, stretch your legs, do a little shopping, buy snacks for the road, have a decent meal, maybe buy a gift for someone you are going to visit.
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@@garycamara9955We know, you're there😅
And many have pump outs and water fills for your RV. You don't find many up north.
The ones I’ve went to allow overnight RV parking which is nice since a lot of places stopped allowing it since the homeless took over.
Perfect discription except you forgot to mention the turn of the century decor!
Southern Buttermilk Biscuits are the best thing EVER
I like em with butter and honey. Sausage gravy is great too.
Chicken-fried is how it's cooked, it's a cutlet that's breaded and fried like chicken. Can be a cutlet of steak or chicken, hence, chicken-fried steak and chicken-fried chicken.
I think I've seen it with pork too? Maybe?
Not sure if you said it, my phones acting up… but at Cracker Barrel, it’s actually a combination of chicken and Turkey... Battered and deep fried.
Honestly there are much better places to get great food! I know @L3WG is
slobber knocking at just the thought of our food!
Wouldn't you just say fried chicken?
Chicken fried chicken is redundant.
@@jack-of-all-trades1234 I think that's kind of the point. It's a bit of a joke. But I'm not from the South, so may be wrong. 💙
@@jack-of-all-trades1234Fried chicken refers to whole pieces of chicken coated in batter and fried. Then someone decided to coat steak with chicken style batter and fry it; calling it chicken fried steak. Then someone did the same with a chicken cutlet...hence the redundant name.
Chicken Fried Chicken is boneless skinless chicken breast that has been flattened out and fried up in seasoned batter just like Chicken Fried Steak and normally covered in a buttermilk gravy with salt and pepper to taste, it's super delicious! Fried Okra is a green vegetable that looks close to zucchini or a small cucumber, it's normally about as round as your finger and and sliced up and fried in a cornmeal batter with seasoning and sometimes serve with gravy, it is also a southern favorite!
Cracker barrel has rv and bus parking and loves tourists. Its one of my favorite chains.
Btw, part of the building is their gift shop. That's what you were seeing.
I like the gift shop more than the food
Same here, they occasionally have some good stuff on the menu…. But I load up on a lot more food on my way out of the gift shop lol.
Catfish is a river fish not a sea fish, its great with lemon juice. Okra is a vegetable that looks like a pepper, but isn't hot at all.
I soak my catfish in buttermilk or milk, otherwise, it's too "muddy" for my taste.
Okra is technically a fruit. But is often used like a vegetable
Catfish is a bottom feeder. The meat can be gritty. It has good flavor though.
As a freshwater fish, some of them can also be found in freshwater lakes. I caught some Bullheads when I was a kid. Not for eating though. And I wasn't trying to catch them in particular.
Okra is a vegetable in US. It is used in gumbo as well a side that is fried.
Biscuits and cornbread ALWAYS eat with butter.
Cornbread can be all kinds of shapes including like those muffins. The key is make it like a "cake" texture instead of crumbly dry, IMO
No on both of those. Butter especially shouldn't be anywhere near cornbread.
@@cp368productions2lots of butter, extra butter😅😋
Only time I don’t load my cornbread with butter is if it’s either sweet cornbread or spicy cornbread.
That said Spicy cornbread made with mixed diced peppers and some bacon fat mixed in the batter, is my preferred cornbread.
Cornbread positively screams out for butter. The butter brings it from a 5/10 up to a 9/10.
Tons of butter.
Butter, jam, gravy, chili...
Its all good. Load up your cornbread, ppl
My then 85 year old mother got ID'ed after ordering a glass of wine at a restaurant last year during a multi generational family dinner where the youngest person at the table was in their mid 30's
Go Grandma! ❤
huh?
People get ID'ed no matter their age. It's ridiculous. They do it because they are afraid they will get in trouble.
That was most likely the server being extra nice either for more of a tip or just to make her smile. ;)
@@dianeschnur9594 Unlikely since she had to dig through her purse for a couple of minutes to find it
I got ID’d a couple weeks ago and I’m 49. They can get in A LOT of trouble if they don’t ask for it.
I'm 62 and got I.D. for buying cooking wine and not the top-shelf kind.
@@camilochavez6982I’m 40 and get IDed for some cold/flu medications
When you did the tour of restaurants in each state Cafe Du Monde was featured for New Orleans, LA. They are famous for their chicory coffee and beignets! They even talked about it and showed them. Go back and watch.
@@avon1243 Just the best! This is where you get your beignets not at Cracker Barrel!
I grew up in rural Georgia in the middle of farmland. To me, Cracker Barrel is the cheap copy of southern cooking in the same way that Olive Garden is to Italian.
It's a little closer to the real thing than Olive Garden is to Italian food. The dishes are basically same, just not done as well as home made or more of a mom and pop restaurant.
I'm not really a fan of it, but I could see why a Brit might like the novelty of it.
I'm in Ky, and I agree. It's okay but not as good as good ol' home cookin. I love fried okra, but Cracker barrel is not the same. Same as biscuits and gravy.
Yummy
@@ScottieRC I live in TN. I love Cracker Barrel but I usually go for the breakfast, though their biscuits aren’t great. It’s great when you’re on the road traveling.
Truly agree! That’s how I feel about Texas Roadhouse. It’s a chain, it’s okay! Definitely nothing to write home about.
It is a restaurant that focuses on the area that it is in. It also focuses on travelers. And so when you go in the door, you walk into a gift shop. Each of the restaurants have a gift shop at the front door. You have to walk into it and get to the restaurantso if you are traveling, you can buy things to take home with you for your friends and family from that state and or area.
Crackel Barrel was where our family would often meet up with other family to catch up and enjoy a meal together if time was too limited for a whole day trip to grandmas house. It's not a 5* michelin restaurant. It's a chain with food that's good enough for 99% and better than some mother's cooking. Good atmosphere and service.
Headquarters in Tennessee, they are a chain specializing in southern cuisine. They also have a great gift shop! Good food! We live in East Tennessee, and go there frequently.
Cracker Barrel, standard tourist trap! But usually tasty too 😊
Oh I love the Cracker Barrel store!! It always has the cutest items!
And the best Christmas ornaments. You can get unique gifts. Old time candy, drinks, soaps, & toys. I have one of their rocking chairs on my front porch now. Love it.
@@bonnieh5790My mom has the rockers. I like that lil store. The food is so so
Okra is a vegetable, popular in the south. It has a very slimy juice as it has naturally occurring thickener so its popular in soups like gumbo. Its an acquired taste, not for everyone.
I love to hate it unless it’s deep fried. 😊
My granny fried it diced up still love it. Even in gumbo
I like it in Gumbo and stews, but avoid it in any other form.
It's so slimy that if you eat too much your socks won't stay up.
@@DashRiprock513 😂 Wasn't that Jerry Clower? God he was hilarious
Great reaction! You have to try Cracker Barrel when you get chance and now you know you can shop and eat in the same place! If you want to try some BBQ you are more than welcome to ours to try out what we’ve learnt so far. Keep up the good reactions
oh for sure i need to!!! & btw amazing video from you guys like always!
Some place ID, no matter the age. Most places ID if you look under 40. You can get chicken fried chicken or steak. The entrance of Cracker Barrel is set up like an old-fashioned mercantile.
"Chicken fried" is just a manner in which it's fixed. It can be steak, chicken or whatever. It's coated in seasoned flour and pan fried.
I love how baby girl is thoroughly unbothered with waiting to be served the pot pie and is happily digging in! 😄
Eta - catfish is my favorite fish to eat! It's soft and doesn't have a strong flavor, so it's delicious breaded and fried and drizzled with fresh lime juice. 😋
Yeah, they forgot to tell them to put lemon juice on the fish and use the tartar sauce!!!
That's a small-medium sized pie for America. Pretty big for a chicken pot pie, but not impressive for pie in general.
Sam's Club usually sells pies that are about 12 inches across.
Our Cracker Barrel gets so crowded at times that it’s great to have the general Store to shop around in. You can find some nice stuff there. Cracker Barrel’s food is really good. You need to look up a video about eating actual beignets. The ones at Cracker Barrel on Norton nearly as good and they’re not shaped like that or small like that
12:20 Think back to when the boys at Jolly went noodling for catfish in the American South. they're river fish that live in mud. They'll always taste vaguely of the river where they were caught.
I know there are saltwater (along the coast of Florida) catfish too. I wonder which ones Josh and Ollie did, did they say? Was it a freshwater river? 😊
In most establishments that serve alcohol it is common that they ask for your ID because there are companies that audit for the state to see who is compliant on asking for ID’s to ensure no one is under-age and that the employees are doing their job as required by policy/law.
If an employee gets caught not asking for an ID when serving alcoholic beverages and the “customer” just so happens to be an undercover auditor, the company could be fined/penalized and/or lose their liquor license from the state to purchase and sell alcoholic beverages.
Great reaction bro! 👍🍻
I am 68 years old and still get asked to buy non-alcohol "beer" at the grocery store. Most stores have a sign that they ID anyone under 30, some at 35. Some bigger stores "stop at 100".
The full name for the restaurant is Cracker Barrel old country store. It’s based off of old stores that would also serve food in the country in the south.
LOL, no. What gave you that idea? 😂
Oh, Cracker Barrel's good. One of my favourite places to eat. Pancakes are awesome. It is a restaurant, but it has a giftshop as well. Big Red is also a brand of cinnamon chewing gum. chicken-fried chicken is chicken schnitzel (if you know what that is). chicken-fried steak is just steak schnitzel. Okra is a vegetable. ORCA is a killer whale
Chicken fried chicken is the same as chicken fried steak, but with chicken as the protein. Cracker Barrel is a very unpretentious family-friendly restaurant. Just good down home favorites. I don't have one in my neighborhood, but it is a sure bet to stop in on a road trip. Always friendly staff, rockers on the front porch if there is a wait, and you just might find a bit of Americana kitch to decorate your house with.
It kind of depends where you are, but in most cases Cracker Barrel is a love letter to the old days of southern country and the idea of the frontier general store. The food's not going to blow your mind, but there's a lot of classic comfort food dishes, and they're almost always located just off a major highway. So they're something of a staple of long road trips, when you need to take a break and get something to eat that helps you unwind and relax after driving all day.
If you ever come to the United States and can swing through Coastal Virginia, I'll make sure to buy you lunch! :)
Everyone gets ID’d
Yep! It’s not about appearance, it’s about policy. But it is always amusing to watch older people be carded.
In Arizona location may not have a liquor license the liquor license is held by the corporation so if one location illegally sells to a minor then all the locations lose their ability to sell liquor. Better safe than sorry.
You are correct. The entrance is a store to get thru to the entrance to the restaurant area.
The little lady is ADORABLE. 🩷
I currently work at Cracker Barrel! Near Nashville, Tennessee. Chicken Fried Chicken is just that there are two patties of chicken. I usually get the gravy on the side and dip the chicken. Get extra biscuits and save one pattie for the next morning when I make a chicken and biscuit. Cracker Barrel is the Old Country Store. So it's a southern vibe. We have candy no one else has, the sodas he was showing, tons of merchandise from sweaters and pajamas to iron skillets and every holiday decoration you can imagine! It will be an experience when you try it here for sure!
okra is a veg that is from Africa originally I think. I could be wrong about its origin, so dont shoot the messenger.
You’re right. It’s native to East Africa.
@@GabbyHamm-js6ytIt grows wild in the Dominican Republic.
@@chrispavlich9656 Yes - it was brought to the Americas with the slave trade.
Okra is a green vegetable. It looks very similar to zucchini, but it's smaller. It is breaded and deep fried like zucchini.
It's easy to see the confusion between it and orcas though...they have so much in common.😉😅
I find Okra a bit slime. It is used as a thickener in Gumbo ( i prefer file...fee-lay, powdered sassafras).
It's half a restaurant and half a gift shop. It's a bit expensive for me but I do love their chicken and dumplings whenever I crave it. And I do love their french toast for breakfast.
Do you still have one? Our closest one closed down. It stinks, I loved that place.😢
Chicken and dumplings is the best
I usually go for (big) breakfasts when traveling.
Sunday (fried) chicken is a great special as well.
The original in Lebenon, Tennessee has some dishes not at the rest yet.
Chicken Fried means
Fried in a skillet and topped with the white gravy, be it Chicken or steak!
In the US you get ID'd and they write down what year you born. So even if you look older, they still have to have your birth year.
I'm not much of a seafood eater myself but catfish is one of the only fish ill enjoy..that and shrimp.
Good thing catfish isn't seafood😅-
Before anyone replies- I know it's classified as seafood
Okra is a pod vegetable with fuzzy pods full of small (edible) seeds. In its boiled state, the interior of the pod becomes somewhat slimy, but dusted with corn meal and fried, it can become a crispy, flavorful morsel that satisfies your diet's green veg requirement.
I've told the H family they need to cook some BBQ for other British react youtubers since they've gotten really into smoking meats American style, and they seemed open to the idea of it someday. Hope you get to collab with them, Lew!
Chicken Fried Chicken is basically what you may know as Schnitzel. And yes, if it's not prepared correctly, Catfish can taste earthy or muddy but it is in no way supposed to. If it does, somebody didn't know what they were doing lol 😊
Cracker barrel is my family's official road trip restaurant. Grandparents are southern so all us grand kids have fond memories of jumping out of the car to play checkers, rock in the chairs and play with the quirky toys while we waited for food.
Most places in the US have to ask for your ID no matter how old you look. They have an electronic system where they have to enter your ID or Driver license # and your birth year into the system as proof that they checked your ID. Came about because so many merchants were selling alcohol to minors.
Put lemon pepper and some hot sauce on the catfish and you cant go wrong
Yuk🤢
BBQ Mac n Cheese is amazing, you should try it. Okra is a type of vegetable regional to the South United States, and its places like Craker Barrel that has taken it across the country. Its not unusual to find Americans from the MidWest or NorthEast who have never heard of it. Okra is usually fried, but you can also boil it in something like a gumbo. Chicken Fried Chicken is a chicken that has been pounded flat into a patty, then fixed exactly like you would a chicken fried steak. The only difference between the two is one is chicken and one is beef. That's litterally the only difference. Catfish is not technically seafood, its a mud fish found in rivers and lakes. It's taste is quite unique, unlike any other kinds of fish. I know people who hate seafood, but love catfish.
Upstate NY: we have a food truck that is only Mac & cheese. You can change up the cheese (American, Velveeta, cheddar, guyeere, etc) and/or add extra stuff. usually meat (bacon, lobster, pulled pork, chicken, etc...rarely veg too). Topped with buttered panko breadcrumbs. 3 hot sauces & 2 BBQ sauces available on the side.
The entrance/front of a Cracker Barrel is a store then into the restaurant!
Cracker Barrel is a general store with a restaurant attached.
There is Chicken-Fried Steak and then Country-Fried Chicken.
LOL Some don't know that chicken-fried and country-fried aren't the same thing...almost are.
I *love* fried okra. They basically take the seed pod from the plant, sliced it up, battered the pieces and is then fried. You have to pick it at the right time or it becomes too 'woody'
Okra is a versatile vegetable. The majority of people fry it, but it is also used in stews and gumbo as a thickener.
I think you'd like American cooked fish. Can't wait to see when you actually come here and film stuff bro!
Catfish is a freshwater fish but is classified as seafood.
Okra is a vegetable! A very slimy vegetable lol. They use it down in New Orleans to thicken gumbo.
Okra is a vegetable added to foods like gumbo, or can be pickled, or deep fried. Great with ranch.
every Cracker Barrel has a gift shop while you wait
Howdy from Texas.
Okra is a very versatile vegetable. It can be eaten raw or boiled if it's slimy juice doesn't bother you it's great. The slime inside the Okra is exactly why it's used in gumbos, stews and soups because it's a natural thickener. However, you can also have it breaded and fried, done right it loses its slimy juice and is simply deliciously crunchy. I grew up eating Okra every way you can have it. I'd often while playing outside go into my grandfather's vegetable garden and pick a few Okra right off the plant and eat it as a quick snack. MY grandmother used to slice the Okra very thin, bread it and fry it to the point of almost burning it so that it's natural sugars would caramelize giving it a slightly sweet and very satisfyingly crunchy texture that I just loved. You can also have them pickled. They sell them pickled in glass jars here, canned usually with tomatoes for a Southern delicacy Okra and tomatoes. And even sliced, breaded or unbreaded and frozen ready to fry up at a moments notice.
The word " Gumbo" is actually a West African dialects word simply meaning Okra.
Chicken-fried is a type of frying where the meat is baptized in an egg bath as well as covered with a seasoned flour. Normal fried is just the flour. There is deep fried. We also have battered, which is where you dip the meat in a batter before frying. So a lot of time, when you go out, fried food will be named by type of frying such as chicken-fried steak or beer-battered chicken tenders.
Cracker barrel is a big weekend place. So, they generally have a long wait and the store is to keep you entertained while you wait
Lol More like the wait was designed (manufactured) for you to spend time buying things in the store
Any time you hear (blank) fried (blank) the first part refers to the method of cooking and the second part refers to the item being cooked. Chicken fried is deep fried and country or southern fried is skillet or pan fried. So chicken fried chicken is chicken that is deep fat fried. Country fried Steak is also deep fried. Country fried or southern fried chicken or steak would be fried in a skillet or cast iron.
Okra is a kind of slimy green vegetable. Very popular in the south.
It isn't slimy if you fry it.
When tourists come in, there is a gift shop or souvenir shop attached to the restaurant. Also, okra, which is pronounced o-kra not ak-ra, is a green vegetable.
Okra is a pod vegetable originally from west Africa that is popular in Caribbean and Southern American cuisines. When raw, there's a clear, sticky "slime" inside. This is a thickener, and why is used to make gumbo (a stew popularized in Louisiana). Fried okra is just the pods, sliced across into bite-sized pieces and fried. Best with your hot sauce of choice!
You should check out more videos from this channel . They fell in love with Texas BBQ. So they bought a proper smoker and do authentic BBQ in the UK.
CB has a mini gift shop up front. Toys, retro candy, holiday items, shirts, and other things young grandmothers would buy.
Home cooking for fairly cheap.
Enjoyed the video. Well done.
Have fun and be safe.
A beignet is fried pastry dough, very similar to a puffy doughnut. Beignets are most associated with New Orleans.
Chicken fried steak, gravy, grits, greens, fried okra! Sweet tea💜!
COMFORT!
Yes CFC is technically fried chicken but its the style its cooked and served. Floured, pounded(or not) chicken breast, fried in a pan, and covered in white gravy
Somebody send Lewis some Pillsbury pre-made biscuits. All you'd have to do, Lewis, is open up the container, put them on a baling tray, brush on some melted butter, and then bake.
Fried chicken is bone-in chicken pieces from all parts of the bird that are coated in flour. Chicken-fried chicken, however, is a flattened chicken breast that is dredged in flour, then dunked into an egg and buttermilk wash, and then back into the flour again.
Okra is technically a fruit but cooks like a vegetable, it grows from a plant that we can plant in the states. Okra is kinda hard to describe on what it’s like eating it but okra is used in gumbo and deep fried on its own. Also Lee u should try putting chopped ham or chopped up bacon in ur Mac and cheese.
Cracker Barrel, at certain times of the day or year, can be very crowded. To entertain the people while they wait their turn , you shop! Very cute stuff. More like a gift shop. I used to work near a Cracker Barrel, and my department would go for Christmas luncheon. I would also Christmas shop at the same time. Fun place!
My mother used to make a mac and cheese casserole with chunks of ham in it and baked it with a crunchy breadcrumb topping. It was SO good!
Rootbeer is not alcohol. :) Get the blueberry pancakes and the thick sliced bacon when you go. If you want dinner, sugar cured ham with mashed potatoes and white gravy is good too!
The other day I poured some root beer into a square glass.
It turned into beer.
Chicken fried steak, hash browns covered in white gravy is one of my favorite treats.
Chicken fried chicken is usually deboned chicken that has been pounded into a cutlet, then dipped in egg, when a seasoned flour, then fried. Regular fried chicken is full bone pieces treated the same way. A chicken fried steak is a piece of beef, pounded and cooked the same way. Then you have pork tenderloin which is a piece of pork loin pounded thin, treated the same way and fried - all are delicious depending on the seasoning and gravy. Okra is a green vegetable, a sort of edible pod, it can be coated and fried whole, or after being cut in pieces as they did here. Okra will thicken stews and soups if added, however just a little tomato juice will cut the slime some people don't like.
I was 42 and got asked for my ID just to enter a casino. Mind you, I don't even drink that was just to get in the door. 😂
I live in Georgia, and we have a lot of Meat and Threes, which is country cooking where you choose your meat dish and usually 3 veg or side dishes. Cracker Barrel is like a chain of those, with a more standardized way of cooking, seasoning and serving their dishes. You usually know what to expect from any dish you order at whatever location. I like to go there because I can buy my favorite cookie, which is Hydrox. Hydrox is the cookie that Oreo copied and then marketed them into oblivion. They were gone for many years, but now they are back, and I prefer them 100%. This couple did not try my favorite and usual go-to, which is the chicken and dumplings.
Lol chicken pot pie is a meal. It is called pie, but it is meat and vegetables cooked inside. It is the meal not like a sweet pie.
And it looks like there’s enough for 2-3 people here
It's kinda like a creamy chicken soup, in pie form.
I do love a good CPP.
It's like an old time General Store
I was lucky enough for my 80yr old mom to come up on her birthday.
She wanted to eat at Cracker Barrel. And I was lucky enough to get to go with her. She still drives , yes. Lol
She is very strong headed and independent. Her drive was over an hour 1 way.
I can't afford to eat there by myself.
Every cracker barrel has store front and restaurant. Stores have Americans AND State-specific products for purchase.
Food is country American
Catfish is a bottom feeding fish. The muddiness of where they live comes through the taste. That is the earthy taste she is referring to. If you aren't usually a seafood person you usually won't like it.
For okra - it's a vegetable. It goes into gumbo raw, but it is usually deep fried. Dip it into ranch dressing, and it's awesome.
Cracker Barrell was first known for their rocking chairs, which they then sold. That snowballed into an entire giftshop.
Okra is a green vegetable. You have to like GREEN veggies
Corn muffins are either baked in a muffin tin or mini bread loaf tin. That way the outside is crispy and the middle stays moist.
LMAO! "Okra" is a veggie, "Orca" is part of the dolphin family. LOL
FYI, they are serving Okra.
😂😂😂
Out of the varieties of fish you named, I would describe fried Catfish as closest to Fried Cod, though of course they are distinctly different.
I'm 70 at my next birthday and I still get I.D.ed.
I love Cracker Barrel. It is sort of like eating at grandma's house. Really homey and I love their old time store with old fashioned candy, home accessories and decorations.
The southern way to eat biscuits is to poke your finger in the biscuit and make a big hole and pour Country syrup into the biscuit
Cracker Barrel has traditional "country" foods. They have a store in the front that looks like a traditionally Country Store.People can browse the store while they are waiting to be seated for dinner. They have all of the old time sodas and candies to buy that you can't get almost anywhere else. So they are making money on you because you shop while you're waiting to eat and give them more money. Brilliant marketing. You can even buy the rocking chairs and the checkerboards that they have out on the porch for people to use when they are waiting for a table. Food is usually very good. It's wholesome food that makes you feel like you're getting a hug from Grandma, and they have tons of antique small appliances, signs, and other "country" things hanging from the walls. I love fried catfish. It's Okra, not an orca. It's a vegetable, and you either love it or hate it. I hate it because it has a slimy texture. I don't mind it in stews or soups like a gumbo, because the sliminess just helps to thicken the broth. But I cant' stand the way fried Okra feels in my mouth.
I’m in Western North Carolina. Cracker Barrel is Traditional Southern food.
Split that cornbread in half put some butter to melt on it and then you can put some money on it it makes it really good
When you walk into all cracker barrells, you walk into an old-timey store. They have like candies and anacks from when you were a child that you dont see very much anymore. They have old fashioned clothes and clothes that reference things feom back in the day. They also have a few toys and unique and cutesie items.
In rural towns, you will often have a general store with a cafe or full restaurent attached. Cracker Barrel started that way in Lebanon, Tennessee - but now it's a pretty much nationwide corporation. IIRC only five states do not have one.
Okra is a green vegetable with a hollowed gooey center. If you ask me, it tastes best breaded and fried because it gives the outside a crunch with a soft center. Okra also gets used in stews and soups which I’m less of a fan of because the okra flavor is weaker. My mom won’t eat it though because she hates the texture 😂 But I’ve loved fried okra since I was a child. 10/10 if you ask me.
Mainly its a mix of different American comfort foods. My go-to order is corn batter fried catfish with hush puppies, turnip greens, and fried okra. *Okra is NOT an orca whale. Its a type of vegetable.
And yes, there is a big gift shop at the entrance of the restaurant.
Basically, they take a chicken breast and slice it in half length wise keeping it as wide as possible. Then they hammer the hell out of it with a meat tenderize, bread it and deep fry it.