Great Wolf Lodge buffet calls this“Caprese Salad.” I’m not so sure.

by maxpaver

35 Comments

  1. freakingusernamedood

    This is what happens when you let a wolf cook your food.

  2. mike_pants

    This is one of those franchises that, the more I hear about it, the more mystified I am that anyone is giving them money.

  3. speakerbot

    I have an irrational fear that my child will ask me to go there one day and we will all get norovirus

  4. KommandoKazumi

    Is the salad in the room with us?

  5. PoopTransplant

    I had to look up what a great wolf lodge was, and to no surprise from this dish labeled a salad, it’s midwestern. 

  6. IllBowl8728

    Looks like something a coworker will bring in for lunch and tell you it’s the best thing ever

  7. DrPants707

    The only way this could be semi acceptable is if it was supposed to be a pasta salad. But even then…

  8. Natronsbro

    I took my family (2 young kids) there a few years ago. We had had a blast. It was like a super cheap trip to Disney land, except no crazy lines.
    We spent a lot of money, but the kids had nonstop fun.
    It wasn’t my ideal vacation, but they were so happy I couldn’t help but enjoy it.

  9. commonbleachenjoyer

    I think my dog threw this up once

  10. ShivRoyPinkyIsQueen

    My kid begged to go one year and I got a coupon so we went. It was crowded, overpriced & weird but my kid brought a friend and they spent the day going down waterslides and they had a blast so overall I wasn’t disappointed. It’s not my idea of a great trip but my son told me it was one of his favorite days ever and I didn’t go broke over it. We also didn’t get sick so that helps. If we left sick I would probably have a different opinion about the whole thing

  11. later-g8r

    Maybe this is their “rendition” of the caprese salad. And it looks a little expired… I dont think the cheese should look like tuna

  12. halexanderamilton

    It looks like really soupy tuna salad with tomatoes 🤢

  13. ATEbitWOLF

    Looks like marijuana to me, did you find it in Toby’s desk?

  14. DankDandalions

    Please try the Ranch Milkshake thank you

  15. ThunderFlash10

    Have they ever even seen a picture of a Caprese salad?

  16. Terrible-Tree-8851

    For the price of their rooms this is beyond unacceptable.

  17. Herbisher_Berbisher

    Caprese salad is slices of delicious sun ripened tomato, slices of fresh mozzarella (bufala if possible) and fresh leaves of fragrant basil. Sprinkled with some salt and some extra virgin olive oil. A little balsamic vineger if you’re a barbarian. Usually it is neatly sorted and arranged on the plate like the flag of Italy, green white and red. Served at room temperature, do not refrigerate.

  18. ObiJuanKenobi3

    You know how in a caprese salad you can see and discern every single one of the like, 5 total ingredients? Well here at Great Wolf we do things a little differently. Good luck naming a single fucking thing here except what are presumably tomatoes.

  19. Ellia1998

    My kids love that place. But never eat the food and breakfast sammie for breakfast’s and meat and cheese and fruit for lunch and dinner. We just go out. Better food same price and sometimes cheaper. We never been sick from that place. Great wolf lodge had a ton of germy little kids around. Most adult and some kids can’t handle that place.

  20. ONE-EYE-OPTIC

    Which Great Wolf Lodge? We’re going to the one in Grand Mound, WA in a few weeks. I would rather not eat at the Lodge and get groceries for sandwiches. This would help my cause.

  21. ILikeDragonTurtles

    Why does it look so…vomity?

  22. seanbray

    My wife and I were told that they had a buffet there, and the nearest one isn’t that far away.

    The next night we went to the nearest Great Wolf Lodge to check it out, went into the buffet restaurant and met the waitress. She took our drink order and we headed to the buffet.

    The buffet was so sad. We left there immediately and let the waitress know that we would pay for our drinks. She said, “You were disappointed in the buffet? Yeah. It isn’t very impressive. You are all good.”

    Apparently, that happens a lot.

  23. Readinglateatmorning

    Yeah take a gulp full of that then hit the water slides kid

  24. VintageBlazers

    Yeast infection on your period (clotty)

  25. imakebeernotmoney

    More like CRAPrese Salad *ba dum tiss*. I apologize for that. I’ll see myself out.

  26. viper9172

    I used to work at one and it genuinely is just a garbage business. The food is just one piece of a very shitty puzzle, but just to add onto the pile did you know (you could probably tell) that those expensive as fuck chicken tenders in the waterpark are Tyson brand? Bottom shelf in the freezers at Walmart.

    Security is hilariously lacking for how much they advertise their RFID-wristbands and for how many flock cameras they post around (+half the interior cams do not work or are POINTING AT WALLS). Their training post-licensing consists of signing some papers stating they explained everything to you even if all they did was tell you to sign it.

    My location was CONSTANTLY under renovation, so much so that I knew the contractor’s names better than some of the staff from housekeeping (which is half in-house staff and half third party both with massive turnover)

    Those magiquest wants have a unit price of around 2 or 3 dollars per wand. The little attachments are a dollar or less. The whole game turns off at 10 but you will be hearing every single interactable going off constantly before the blessed silence. Oh, and yes, it is literally designed to make you take as many stairs as possible. The elevators are always too crowded, yet the stairs will be too.

    Did your eyes sting like hell in the waterpark? This can happen in the summer, but it’s especially bad in the winter. Your eyes sting because the chlorine in the water is evaporating faster than the HVAC systems are pulling it out of the air. If this happens in the summer, that’s because the fans rusted and snapped because chlorine is an evil chemical. If this happens in the winter, it’s because they are running the heaters which pulls out less chlorinated air I fuckin guess. The pool staff and lifeguards are mostly teenagers and young adults, but genuinely the aquatics manager and engineering teams were the only people with their heads screwed on.

    Most people I worked with actually liked the job at first. It can be a LOT no matter your department just with the sheer volume of guests but it’s fun giving someone that fun vacation experience. You notice the cracks pretty quickly though, one of my coworkers told me when I was new “this is going to feel like a cult and your best bet is to drink the punch.” Verbatim. He was one of two people in that department that had been there for over a decade, everyone else was two years or less.

    Plus it’s owned by Blackstone yippeee.