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More Boysenberry Festival 2022
Yes, this is amazing…it’s Monkey bread bites dipped in funnel cake batter, fried and coated with powdered sugar and boysenberry glaze.
Needed to wash it all down with some Boysenberry Beer!
Our list of items to eat. (We didn’t make it thru em all. Lol)
Knott’s Boysenberry Festival time!
Here’s some of what we tried….
The winner by far was the Fried chicken on top of a Boysenberry filled donut. The chili with Mac and cheese with Fritos topping was very good too. Chicken Corden Bleu was tasty but not much Boysenberry flavor to the cheese sauce. Weakest item was the chicken dumplings, which were dried out and stale. Would have been better served from a steamer or fresh.
Knott’s Boysenberry Festival time!
Here’s some of what we tried….
The winner by far was the Fried chicken on top of a Boysenberry filled donut. The chili with Mac and cheese with Fritos topping was very good too. Chicken Corden Bleu was tasty but not much Boysenberry flavor to the cheese sauce. Weakest item was the chicken dumplings, which were dried out and stale. Would have been better served from a steamer or fresh.
Baby ducks at Knott’s Berry Farm!
The Americanism Educational League’s Freedom Center was a John Birch Society bookstore inside Knott’s Berry Farm.
Walter Knott led a drive to place John Birch Society materials in the public school curriculum.
Much of the material trashed socialized medicine, anti-war protests, and the Civil Rights Movement.
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Knott’s Berry Farm helped facilitate California support for Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign. Walter Knott was sympathetic to the John Birch Society. They were long-time fundraisers for Ronald Reagan.
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Something feels vaguely disingenuous when people characterize Disneyland (or theme parks in general) as just “soulless corporate product.”. Like yeah, they are unambiguously corporate, and they certainly don’t run on magic or sparkles or whatever buzzword the PR department throws out… but there’s certainly something else there, some effort or artistry, that I think sets it apart from, say, a Walmart or Amazon Warehouse
The Disney Corporation may be soulless, but the Imagineers and Cast Members that put so much love and effort into their jobs aren’t. Many, if not most, of them genuinely care about giving people a good experience at the parks and want people’s vacations to be positive, memorable experiences.
This! Even if the shell is soulless, arguably the artists, everyday employees, and even fellow guests sort of “put soul into it”. Plus, as another comment pointed out, many rides *do* qualify as classic art pieces at this point, were built under a different corporate culture that valued more artistic integrity, and are now the vessels for countless treasured family memories. Yeah, definitely not the same as a Walmart.
There’s a weird duality to it, because you want to appreciate the artistry, and sometimes it’s amazing to see it backed by the resources Disney can bring to bear… but on the other hand, you’re also seeing that soul harnessed by the soulless company to its own ends.
I always hope what the artist is getting out of their creation and what they’re giving us is worth the control they’re submitting to, and… everything else. It’d be easy to argue that companies like Disney aren’t worth it, but this post is right that it doesn’t make sense to say that there’s no artistry or value or soul going on.
I admire and enjoy Disney Imagineering, but please don’t get too caught up in idealizing it as some kind of epitome of park design. Especially with the recent push to incorporate more recently acquired franchises at the expense of older attractions that were not an extended commercial for a Disney+ show.
Talented artists and engineers have done a lot of work on other theme parks as well. (If you’re looking at a Southern California park trip, I would enthusiastically suggest you consider visiting Knott’s Berry Farm.)
Disney USED to be the epitome of design, and it really sucks seeing it gain this reputation as the current batch of execs take out all the good stuff (taking out Tower of Terror and cheaply re-skinning it with GOTG was my “villain origin story”). I think a lot of people who go “wait Disney has fans?” unfortunately never got to see it before the current crap. I LOVE it when other parks go all-out with theming and artistry too, especially nowadays when I hope it puts the heat back on bigger park chains (both Disney and Universal) to actually *try*.
I love Knott’s too! I haven’t gotten to go in a while, but I especially recommend it if you like more thrills. Ghost Rider is truly elite (at least post-restoration), and alongside Xcelerator, Silver Bullet, and Hangtime, they’ve got a reallygreat coaster lineup.
