Does Cedar Point Serve Boysenberry Punch?

I'm just wondering, not only is it the best fruit drink ever, i'm kind of concerned that since Knotts switched over to Pepsi on the 1st, maybe the contract bans any outside drinks, even Boysenberry Punch. I sure hope not. You guys should really have boysenberry punch BTW. Great drink, and very historical over at Knotts (walter knott helped his friend, Boysen, grow the berry).

CP does not serve that drink. I have heard so much about it, and I want to try it very badly. They do have Knotts jelly in some of the restrants for your toast or whatever. They also have a store on the Frontier Trail that sells Knotts products.

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It's also a great topping on funnel cakes... mmm....

I completely agree with this. However, Knotts Berry Farm and Knotts Berry Farm Foods are two seperate entities that share a name, kind of like HersheyPark and Hershey Foods. The two sprung out of one company some time ago. I would imagine that there's some sort of exclusive agreement that the punch can only be sold in Buena Park and nowhere else. It could be the case that punch can only be sold on a property containing the Knotts name. Does Mall of America sell punch??

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I'm VERY SURE that when they had the Mrs. Knotts Chicken Dinner Resturnat years ago, they did. Also, the knotts family sprung up a LOAD of CDRs in California. A few may be open today, but most or all of them closed. But if you guys sell the jams, why can't you sell the punch. Its the best fruit flavored drink, and a verk popular topping for everything.

That's what CP really needs. We need a chicken barbecue like the one that used to sit about there the MF hotshots building is now. The smell alone there was nothing short of amazing.

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The Mall of America does have the punch, and Cedar Point could have the punch as well, and I think if you look in Kiddie Kingdom, you may find it at the food stand there. Cedar Fair is not exculsively bound to sell only Pepsi products if there is a product that Pepsi does not produce.

As for BBQ chicken, I agree, they could use that again, unfortunately, when they got rid of the Chicken BBQ sales were not that great, due to the location. Now that that area is so built up, I am sure it would do much better.

Cedar Point Marketing developed and exectued a survey of guests during Halloweekends this year... I was surveyed, questions were pertaining to interest in a chicken resteraunt similar to that of Mrs. Knotts. The intro sentence was to the effect of: Cedar Point is considering opening a chicken resteraunt similar to ones in it's sister parks... In my humble opinion, I think we can expect to see a chicken resteraunt in the 2003 or 2004 season.

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Jeff said:
That's what CP really needs. We need a chicken barbecue like the one that used to sit about there the MF hotshots building is now. The smell alone there was nothing short of amazing.

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The chicen dinner resturant's chicken is fried, and oh so good. Even better are the biscuits (I'm salvitating) with 12 kinds of perserves to sample (knotts berry farm of course). MMMMMHHHHHH. Also good are the knotts ribs (they had 4 kinds in the past: midwest, hawiian, texas, and another kind) and the knotts corn and baked potatoes (or yams). Currently, such a combination of food stands and beer sales are occupying vertigo's launch pad. Theres a reason Ghostrider's lift is considered the one with the best smells, its right over the chicken dinner resturant.

Such a resturant could be very profitable for you guys. I mean, the chicken dinner resturant sometimes serves over 10,000 meals a day, and its open from 7am-2 or 3am during haunt, meaning A LOT of money coming in, and meals aren't necesarily cheap (the all inclusive dinner goes for at least 14 bucks). Its worth it though.......You guys are going to love the resturant if and when one goes in. Try one out at CP, and then expand. And with the resturant, boysenberries would take over the place (ice cream, pie, punch, etc).

It would be great for CP to get Boysenberry Punch. I got to visit Knott's in California and I had it there and it was REALLY good. A chicken place would be great too. There used to be a little place called the Chicken Patio right by the Raptor that was decent. It wasn't full service though.

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The chicken dinner resturant would be great. You guys should experience it. They serve 1,500,000 meals a year, a little less than 1/2 of the park's attendence. But each of those meals cost on average I'd say $13 per person (can go up to 22 bucks for sunday brunch and thanksgiving), meaning much dinero for Cedar Fair, and lower operating costs for such a small place (less electricity, labor-only about 100 employees at a time max). If they had one at CP it would perform similary hopefully.

I'm so intrigued by this -- what exactly does a boysenberry taste like?

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History of the boysenberry from Knotts.com: "It was not until the 1930s that Walter became associated with the "boysenberry" which would became the family trademark. Nearby, Anaheim Parks Superintendent Rudolph Boysen had experimented with a new strain of berry but the plants kept dying on the vine. Walter took the scraggly plants, nurtured them to health and named the new berry - a cross between a loganberry, red raspberry and blackberry - after its originator. Today, all boysenberries in the world can trace their roots to Knott's Berry Farm." So, Walter Knotts (BTW, I find it an odd coincidence that Walter Knott and Walter Disney share first names, and were supposedly good friends as well as rivals) did not invent the bosenberry, he just made it possible, and brought life to the plant. The boysenberry is good. SOOOOOOOO good with butter and knotts biscuits, which of course are unlimited in quantity at Mrs. Knotts Chicken Dinner Resturant (at least for dinner). You've got to taste them to believe them (you guys should so get a Chicken Dinner Resturant). Problem is though, you tend to fill up on them. I don't care at all for the boysenberry pies. The boysenberry cookies (they sell these everywhere out here, I'm sure you could find them in Ohio or wherever) are sooo good, as well as the boysenberry ice cream and of course they boysenberry punch.

BTW, you know a resturant's good when it started a whole theme park.

I was in Meijer last night and - lo and behold! - Knott's jam was on sale. I bought a little jar of boysenberry to try since I was so interested after hearing all you guys talk about how great it tastes. My sister and I agree; it's really good (especially on toast!)

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~Lee~

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"The greatest leaders don't take credit for their actions; they don't have to."