Das Edelwiess
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i wish they would also sell fried oreos or other deep fried fair food.
I wish they would bring back the spiraled potatoes. Another park food I wish we had was kettle corn......not the pre packages crap the park pushes but fresh made like Hersheypark does.....people line up every day in long lines for that stuff and you get a massive bag for like $9.
I thought that park did make their own kettle corn. It is still pre-bagged i guess so maybe not that fresh. I miss the fresh cotton candy. The crap they have in bags now is not the same. The used to use Victors cotton candy floss, they are the best. On a side not, sprinkling popcorn with cotton candy sugar floss is delicious.
Sesame place has had fresh made kettle corn at their holiday event in recent years, and it is spectacular. Looks like a local PA vendor, but I would be thrilled to see a larger scale version of that operation at a BG park.
For context, that kettle corn is good enough to make Knoebels kettle corn taste decidedly second-rate.
For context, that kettle corn is good enough to make Knoebels kettle corn taste decidedly second-rate.
I bought a bag at BGW a couple years ago just because I really was in the mood for some and it was the most stale tasting crap ever. I really think they would sell a ton of cotton candy too if it was being made fresh, the smell and visual of them making it is what sells.
I think BGW should come up with their own signature in park item like Knobels funnel cakes or Hershey's Kennel Corn (Happy note to all, it's getting moved outside the gate so you can get it any time).
My family used to have an authentic hand rolled pretzel business, and I tell you what; BGW comes the closest. If you think Auntie Anne's is good, you are basically eating buttered up bread. BGW if you would like help on this gimme a call. I got the history. Soft pretzels, pretzel dogs, cheese infused pretzels (not to be confused with cheese stuffed), hard pretzels, pretzel bites. I can still hand roll 100 an hour too.
My family used to have an authentic hand rolled pretzel business, and I tell you what; BGW comes the closest. If you think Auntie Anne's is good, you are basically eating buttered up bread. BGW if you would like help on this gimme a call. I got the history. Soft pretzels, pretzel dogs, cheese infused pretzels (not to be confused with cheese stuffed), hard pretzels, pretzel bites. I can still hand roll 100 an hour too.
BGW still makes fresh kettle corn, however, they bag it immeadiately and hold on to it till it sells or expires, during CMT they cook it between the restrooms and dashers pizza buffet.
they used to have 3 fresh cotton candy stands (england, germany, italy) but over time the park stopped making it fresh in favor of pre-packaged. in the case for englands stand it was ripped out in favor of union snacks. the stand in germany and italy are still relatively vacant, germanys is between the sirbrush stand and carroussell, italys is by the gelato stand
they used to have 3 fresh cotton candy stands (england, germany, italy) but over time the park stopped making it fresh in favor of pre-packaged. in the case for englands stand it was ripped out in favor of union snacks. the stand in germany and italy are still relatively vacant, germanys is between the sirbrush stand and carroussell, italys is by the gelato stand
But not once did I see that Kettle Corn cart open. I do remember seeing it in operation last year.
Oh yeah, long gone for at least two seasons. The structure is still there , but with nothing in it. The stand in England was eliminated when they put in the Coke stand.
Is Germany finally getting ice cream again? Yes yes we are. Finally after what feels like 15 years. Or maybe longer. We are finally getting ice cream in Germany.
Thos will be a muchly needed addition to the park. Especially on hotter days.
Our current thoughts is that this will be a duel sided operating food and snacks location that can operate only 1 side on lower attendance dates like weekdays and open both sides during busier dates. Staffing pending. Also this will most likely be used for funnel cakes and ice cream during hotter summer dates.
This would be a great space for food&Wine. We remember years ago this location being used as a f&w booth location. Would be nice to bring it back as a possible location for f&w.
I like this, but why cant they open up the wilkomenhaus? It was such a nice seating area in there, and you could walk through to LoTD as well.
To be fair, staffing being as big (and expensive) an issue as it is for the park these days, adding more menu items to an existing location (which will already be open anyways) seems smarter than having to staff a separate shop across the path for ice cream. I hate seeing unused spaces at the park too, but I'd rather those spaces be used as deliberately as possible, rather than stretching their staff even thinner to sell ice cream at one shop and funnel cake at one next door.
Given I see two ice cream machines listed, I presume soft serve, unless they plan to make their own hard scooped ice cream in the park.
I don't see any evidence of hard scoop infrastructure in the plans—just the soft serve machine @Coasternerd referenced.
I wouldn't overhype this as a proper ice cream shop. They may offer cones or whatever, but I imagine the primary purpose of the machines is to provide soft serve ice cream to top funnel cakes.
This is a good refresh, I support it of course, the plans look good, but I don't see anything revolutionary in these plans. I'd expect much of the same offerings Das Edelwiess has offered for years—just out of a refreshed facility.
I wouldn't overhype this as a proper ice cream shop. They may offer cones or whatever, but I imagine the primary purpose of the machines is to provide soft serve ice cream to top funnel cakes.
This is a good refresh, I support it of course, the plans look good, but I don't see anything revolutionary in these plans. I'd expect much of the same offerings Das Edelwiess has offered for years—just out of a refreshed facility.
I'm fine with that, the park has always had pretty good soft serve imo.
