The general store cracker barrels might be a thing of the past, but the togetherness they fostered continues to inspire us to make award-winning cheeses to be shared with friends and families today. We have used the same proprietary heirloom starter cultures for more than half a century.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc (NASDAQ:CBRL) Institutional investors hold a majority ownership of CBRL through the 95.27% of the outstanding shares that they control. This interest is also higher than at almost any other company in the Restaurants industry.

Rich & Bold Cheddar With cream for extra smoothness and a unique aging process, our boldly sharp cheddar is one of a kind.

Since 1969, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has been an interstate institution. It's famous for all-you-can-eat biscuits, tabletop peg games and general stores selling everything from throwback toys to vintage candy you haven't seen in decades.

But Cracker Barrel is also an adjective which according to Merriam-Webster is suggestive of the friendly Homespun character of a country store. Kind of feels like they added that definition.

A truckle of cheese is a cylindrical wheel of cheese, usually taller than it is wide, and sometimes described as barrel-shaped. The word is derived from the Latin trochlea, 'wheel, pulley'. Truckles vary greatly in size, from the wax-coated cheeses sold in supermarkets, to 25-kilogram or larger artisanal cheeses.

The cheese cracker is a type of cracker prepared using cheese as a main ingredient. Additional common cracker ingredients are typically used, such as grain, flour, shortening, leavening, salt and various seasonings. The ingredients are formed into a dough, and the individual crackers are then prepared.

Cracker Barrel provides a friendly home-away-from-home in our old country store and restaurant. Our guests are cared for like family while relaxing and enjoying real homestyle food and shopping that's surprisingly unique, genuinely fun and reminiscent of America's country heritage … all at a fair price.

Each restaurant features unique local finds that reflect the community's history, every Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has an ox yoke and a horseshoe hanging over the front door, a traffic light over the restrooms, a deer head over the mantel, and a cookstove used as a display in the retail sections.

The word cheese comes from Latin caseus, from which the modern word casein is also derived. The earliest source is from the proto-Indo-European root *kwat-, which means "to ferment, become sour". That gave rise to cīese or cēse (in Old English) and chese (in Middle English).

Talk about good vibrations. These happy little crackers dance around up over and down to packaging. There are over 240 cheeses in each box.

How are crackers made? Crackers are made with wheat flour, water, yeast or chemical leaveners, and inclusions of fat, sugar and other enriching ingredients.