This is at a Buc-ees. This golden beaver is their mascot. Southerners love them some Buc-ees. The reason is that they are awesome for reasons too numerous to mention.

People in the South talk about Buc-ees like New Yorkers talk about fashion pop-ups.

OP is referring to this as the “Golden Calf” of the South. And since as the South is foreign to the leftiest of the leftys, you have the joke.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I drove through TN and skipped the buc-ees. I guess I'll never know

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 points 8 months ago

Buc-ees is actually pretty new to TN, it's not a cultural thing.

[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Still lost, but happy to say the joke is on me if that makes some shithead feel better.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I’ll try:

OP is pointing out the cultural/political divide between the North and South in the US or just how the South is different from a lot of the US. They’re “foreign” to outside eyes.

Southerners treat Buc-ee’s like a religion almost with their obsession. Like some people get cultish about Chick-fil-a.

Ergo the symbol of Buc-ee’s, the beaver, is an idol of that foreign religion (buc-ee’s worship) as viewed from the outside.

The idolatry is a reference to Moses coming down from the mountain when he got the 10 commandments and all that to find people worshipping a golden calf instead of god. The South is very religious…or at least presents that image.

So a bunch of stuff happening in that short OP comment. Got the religious south worshipping a beaver for a store that people outside the south don’t know about or understand the cultish following it has.