Cedar Point Food

Touchdown:

One thing that changed this year which is inexplicable to me is that the BBQ places aren’t serving pulled pork (sandwiches or otherwise) at CP, KI does but not CP. I feel like that’s like a typical fast food joint not serving burgers, it’s the default option

Even stranger is that pork shoulder/butt is cheaper and a more forgiving meat to smoke than Brisket.

I will say I have had brisket at Backbeat twice this year and it was cooked great and not dried out like it tends to be. I tend to look at the options first and go with what looks good there. If the brisket looks dry I’ll choose another meat.

Farmhouse has been great so far, and I couldn’t even imagine a place like that at CP even 5 years ago. If there was something like that there certainly wouldn’t be fresh fruit and homemade biscuits. Hope the quality keeps up there.

My votes would be Farmhouse, Backbeat, and the Cheese on a Stick/Fry combo at Hot Potato (or whatever the front fry stand is called now). To me those to me exceed your typical, amusement park quality food. While I don’t make a trip to the park for them I do look forward to eating at these, whereas before eating at CP was more of a chore and dreadful experience.

Everything else ranges from just ‘meh’ (Any Pizza slice) to decent for an amusement park (Miss Keets Burrito, Mac Shack, New Coasters offerings). Most of the food there used to be awful, but now that's flipped . A few places might still have frozen fingers, frozen fries, and cardboard pizza, but even the Chicken fingers are fresh and better some most places (Coral).

The biggest improvement? The cafeteria style means the lines tend to move quick. I'm amazed how quick they turned most locations into this efficient style. Only complaints is there can sometimes be a bottleneck at the registers, no indoor seating, and lack of shade at some places (Backbeat).

A Portillo’s opened up near us a number of years ago so we decided to check it out. I ordered a chili dog, and to my shock and horror it was topped with American cheese. American f***ing cheese. I have never forgiven them for this crime.

Oh, that was the same thing at Pink’s. The dog itself was ok, meaty and snappy, but the sauce was bland and a cold Kraft single was draped over the top. Some Californ-i-an’s idea of a chili dog and it seems everyone bought it.
In the future dogs for me were ordered sans cheese with emphasis on those delicious onion rings.
But it’s all for nothing now.

Something else inexplicable from Cedar Point has to do with the "homewrecker" posted above.

Via the friend with the large wiener; he has the dining plan, and this was their go-to the past couple days.

Today? It was taken off the dining plan. No explanation, but replaced with the "regular" dog and a bag of chips

Now, I am not a consumer of the dining plan, but if I was crap like this would infuriate me.

(Just did my first accidental delete with the new icons)

I have a former co worker there today that posted that all the coasters were closed/running fewer trains for rain two hours after the rain stopped. Even Magnum had a nearly full queue due to single train ops that continued long past the rain ending. And it sounds like the rain was so inconsequential it should not have hindered any ride operations to begin with. But the whole park was filled with 90 minute waits due to single train ops. #cpbestday

It might have been on PointBuzz, but someone insisted that counter service food at parks never looks like it does in the picture. Well, here's Epcot's newest thing...

Where did you get the waffle Jeff?

The Jack-Jack Num Num cookies at the Studios are pretty ridiculous. The whole family shares it...and it is plenty.

BrettV, storms were heavy in Ohio today and last night. At least here in Central Ohio we had storms that popped up quickly, one of which dumped 6 inches of rain.
I don’t know what was happening in Northern Ohio, but if that kind of activity was on the radar somewhere they probably just left it at one train for the duration. It’s so frustrating when that happens.

Pretty sure those are not F&W offerings @ Epcot.

wahoo skipper:

Where did you get the waffle Jeff?

Both of those plates are from Connections Eatery, the new place at Epcot. I didn't order either one, but they were there for pickup for someone else's mobile order. The pizza there is also surprisingly good.

Can confirm that waffle is godly. If I had less self control I'd be getting one every time I walk into that park and have 0 regrets.