Cracker Barrel's Peg Game Changed

Above, yours truly playing the peg game at the Gallup Cracker Barrel. Photo by Larry Lucier.

Along with remodeling their restaurant interiors into banal crap that looks more like a Denny's and the logo change, Cracker Barrel has also changed their classic table peg game.

Some have speculated that the game was changed so that some players won't be offended. I have a Cracker Barrel peg game and I found the wording to be funny in a silly way. 

According to Fox News:

Cracker Barrel has altered the language on its classic table peg game amid the chain’s controversial rebrand, and, like its logo change, the move is not going over well with everyone.

The game that's on all the restaurant's tables previously poked good-natured fun at struggling players, where the goal is to remove all the pegs but one by jumping over them on the board: "Leave only one - you’re a genius. Leave two and you’re purty smart. Leave three and you’re just plain dumb. Leave four or mor’n you’re just plain eg-no-ra-moose."

Now, peg games say if you leave three or more, "Don't be embarassed [sic], try again!" The word was misspelled on a board photographed by Fox News Digital, with only one "r" in embarrassed.

"The peg game is still the same peg game our guests have known and loved for years, and some may look visually different now, but the rules and fun remain completely unchanged," a Cracker Barrel spokesperson told Country Living.

Above, the old peg game in my collection. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

I am wondering if Cracker Barrel's misspelling was E Clampus Vitus inspired. It is a Clamper tradition to have a misspelled word on their plaques.

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