Couple finally completes 40-year-long quest to eat at every Cracker Barrel in the United States

It took 40 years.
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It's called "batting the cycle" in the Cracker Barrel community and few, if any, have ever done it.

Ray and Wilma Yoder, a couple from Indiana, have done the unthinkable. After forty long years, they have finally accomplished their goal of visiting every Cracker Barrel location in the United States.

It is an unprecedented feat, and one of humanity's greatest achievements.

As Today reports, the couple visited the last Cracker Barrel on their list -- their 645th -- on Monday. It was the location in Tualatin, Oregon. And their visit fell on Ray’s 81st birthday. Cracker Barrel paid for their visit and treated them like the royalty they are.

And like Alexander the Great before them, they wept...for there were no more worlds to conquer.

(Bonus: if you've ever wanted to know how to beat that peg game they have at the tables at Cracker Barrel, you can sure as hell believe that Ray's got it figured out.)

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