You just be sure and tell everyone back home that I ain't no cracker-barrel fishball.

As each guest surfaced from the cracker-barrel he fielded them with a patronising show of interest.

Plot holes, cracker-barrel philosophizing and the decision to set a climactic scene offscreen serve to undo all their fine work.

I'll have no grasping tyrants sittin' 'round on my cracker-barrels!

"You said," he proceeded, "that you wouldn't have them sitting 'round on your cracker-barrels."

"Can we skip the cracker-barrel stuff?"