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we are here with laura brubacher the is
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it executive vice president vice
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president vice president of food and
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beverage for knottsbury farm food and
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beverage for knott's berry farm and uh
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now how many years have you been doing
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have you been doing the boysenberry
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festival well i've been here for four
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years we did take a year off because of
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cobia so i've done three boysenberry
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festivals now uh when i first got here
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we were doing like eight items um then
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we quickly went to 12 and now we're
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doing 24 items on our tasty cart which i
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three great years of voice
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which does of course beggar the question
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you know people here it's it's a
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boysenberry how much can you do with a
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boysenberry so i asked you how much
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everything i mean um you can i just did
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300 uh unique items over the last couple
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of years with this poison bearing so and
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merchandise always comes up with great
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ideas whether they put in fudge or they
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thick or whatever it's amazing what you
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can do with this boysenberry slightly
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tart a little bit of sugar makes a great
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pie this year we did it into a poison
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berry pie bar because i love our pies so
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so good you know we put it into a
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we put it on a wonton surrounding you
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know chicken dumpling
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it's just so many great ideas you can do
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it's so good savory or sweet it makes a
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great beer a great wine a great seltzer
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you name it you can do a lot with this
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i'm so glad we have boysenberry and not
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like a plantain oh well i guess a
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plantain you have to really really
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now dare i ask dare i ask in all the
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times that you were combining things did
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you ever find something that you said no
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work with the boysenberry you know i
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there are things that we've adjusted um
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i we did a boysenberry sausage one time
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that was really good but it was
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it was like wine and if it was out too
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long it kind of you know how wine can uh
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get a little vinegary
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and that was something we were like oh
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god that didn't work but um
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you know when we first produced it was
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fantastic people remember the boys very
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sausage we had it for a long time but if
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it was it was could curdle a little bit
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it was good for the moment it was good
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for the moment and then and then my last
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in the course of doing this have you
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found you personally a favorite or most
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you know what i'm always surprised about
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how well it goes in beverages i guess
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i think i'll go back to a chicken tender
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one i was talking to a friend about we
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made a boysenberry breading and we put
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it on a chicken tender with a sriracha
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honey on top and we put it on top of a
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and the combination of the waffle the
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chicken tender with the breading and a
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little bit of sriracha honey
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it was a really good idea
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i think last year's boysenberry oh okay
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well we'll see what this year's hit is
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thank you for your time with us and
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thank you for bringing us the
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boysenberry festival thank you hope to
