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Cracker Barrel

Posted by Tony Farrell on August 08, 2005

We are discussing the origin of the phrase
Cracker Barrel
Someone here thinks the crackers were delivered
in a wooden barrel -
my g-g-grand mother told me the phrase was coined
by the slaves when the foreman would stand on a barrel and crack
the whip.

please advise

thanks
tony

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