Stupid Guest Tricks

At Epcot, the annual Food & Wine Festival is in full swing. 27 specialty booths circle the World Showcase Lagoon, the old Wonders of Life pavilion is now "Festival Center" with a steady stream of wine tastings, food demos, and celebrity chef cookbooks. All is right with the world and my tummy is happy!

One event held on five consecutive Fridays this year is the "Party for the Senses". World Showplace (the former Millennium Village) has a dozen stations serving food, some prepared by celebrity chefs, some by Disney's Culinary Finest. Perhaps twenty wineries have tables with two to ten varietals to sample. 1350 guests, (plus a couple hundred comps) and 1200 seats at tables scattered about fill the hall. Acrobats entertain what's left of your brain, and the affair lasts from 6:30 to 9pm.

I've attended a number of these over the years, and not once did I ever lack for sustenance. Often, I don't even manage to sample all that's on offer for lack of time and capacity. (And let's not even discuss the BAC I drive home with!)

Thus the smell that was noticed in the anteroom of the Showplace at 6:20 last Saturday, just minutes before opening, took a few moments to place. It was food ... but it wasn't. A careful study of those crowded around revealed the cause of this mystery. :holmes:

There she was, having paid $135 to indulge her unworthy palate at this party, standing in the antechamber with hundreds of fellow foodies, and she had brought her own.

Was it the last of her Lobster Roll from the American booth? No it was not.
Was it the refreshing Gazpacho from the Spanish booth? No it was not.
Was it some Curried Shrimp from the Indian booth? No it was not.

What was it? It was a big box of McDonald's french fries, which she had clearly purchased just moments before.

At least she was using the sweet & sour dipping sauce. Had she had the gall to squeeze a ketchup packet in that group she might just have been cut up for sushi.

Barf city on McD fries which are laden with soy. In & Out are ok and dry compared to McD. I have SID issues and found that I put ketchup on everything to perk the palate with the vinegary sweetness and to lubricate the potatos so they are more sensory friendly. I think that is the only reason other than sheer hunger that I would eat ketchup and now that I know about the SID the ketchup is history usually.

Please more food reports as I LOVE FOOD.

Maybe she was freshening her palate.

Maybe she was a non-foodie dragged by someone to a foodie thing? Some people just can't eat fancy type foods with the unpronounceable names and the weird sauces... although if they had lobster rolls there, it couldn't have been ALL strangeness. Mmmm... Lobster roll.

8^)

Zazu wrote:At Epcot, the annual Food & Wine Festival is in full swing. 27 specialty booths circle the World Showcase Lagoon, the old Wonders of Life pavilion is now "Festival Center" with a steady stream of wine tastings, food demos, and celebrity chef cookbooks. All is right with the world and my tummy is happy!

One event held on five consecutive Fridays this year is the "Party for the Senses". World Showplace (the former Millennium Village) has a dozen stations serving food, some prepared by celebrity chefs, some by Disney's Culinary Finest. Perhaps twenty wineries have tables with two to ten varietals to sample. 1350 guests, (plus a couple hundred comps) and 1200 seats at tables scattered about fill the hall. Acrobats entertain what's left of your brain, and the affair lasts from 6:30 to 9pm.

I've attended a number of these over the years, and not once did I ever lack for sustenance. Often, I don't even manage to sample all that's on offer for lack of time and capacity. (And let's not even discuss the BAC I drive home with!)

Thus the smell that was noticed in the anteroom of the Showplace at 6:20 last Saturday, just minutes before opening, took a few moments to place. It was food ... but it wasn't. A careful study of those crowded around revealed the cause of this mystery. :holmes:

There she was, having paid $135 to indulge her unworthy palate at this party, standing in the antechamber with hundreds of fellow foodies, and she had brought her own.

Was it the last of her Lobster Roll from the American booth? No it was not.
Was it the refreshing Gazpacho from the Spanish booth? No it was not.
Was it some Curried Shrimp from the Indian booth? No it was not.

What was it? It was a big box of McDonald's french fries, which she had clearly purchased just moments before.

At least she was using the sweet & sour dipping sauce. Had she had the gall to squeeze a ketchup packet in that group she might just have been cut up for sushi.

Thank you, after a gruesome day at work this post brought tears of laughter to my face. Guests you've got to love them.

At Disneyland they removed all the Mc Donald's french fry carts. I see allot of SG complaining they paid to get in to get to the fries. Hello! If you want these greasy butt building materials, you can cross Harbor and it will be on your left.

These french fries are bad for you. I stopped eating them after having allot of kidney stone problems. I have to have little to no salt in my diet. I rather eat fruit than that crap. :twisted:

turkeyham wrote:At Disneyland they removed all the Mc Donald's french fry carts. I see allot of SG complaining they paid to get in to get to the fries. Hello! If you want these greasy butt building materials, you can cross Harbor and it will be on your left.

These french fries are bad for you. I stopped eating them after having allot of kidney stone problems. I have to have little to no salt in my diet. I rather eat fruit than that crap. :twisted:

McD's contract with the company was negated upon renewal due to lack of product placement per contract terms. in plain English... Disney did not produce enough crappy toys for happy meals.... and all fry carts and stands on all properties will be removed... with exception to any that are operated by Operating Participants that are franchisees of McD's


The Doctor ( shedding a tear for mc'd fries foodies everywhere )

:walter:

Doctor McKey wrote:McD's contract with the company was negated upon renewal due to lack of product placement per contract terms. in plain English... Disney did not produce enough crappy toys for happy meals.... and all fry carts and stands on all properties will be removed... with exception to any that are operated by Operating Participants that are franchisees of McD's


The Doctor ( shedding a tear for mc'd fries foodies everywhere )

:walter:

Is that why the Frontierland Fry Cart was shut down? Apparently it is being expanded and will have a larger selection of items once it reopens. Sounds like it will no longer serve McD fries.

Shorty82 wrote:Is that why the Frontierland Fry Cart was shut down? Apparently it is being expanded and will have a larger selection of items once it reopens. Sounds like it will no longer serve McD fries.

I never could understand that, If I want something to snack at Disneyland, I would want something that I can't normally get every day! Like A Mickey Bar, or a Dole Whip, etc.

Just to show how stupid Knott's management can be, after France and the U.S. had some kind of falling out--forget what now--they changed stuff with the word France or French in their names. Now they don't sell French Fries, they sell "American" fries. I looked up the origin of French Fries, and they are actually Belgian in origin; the word French describes how the potatoes are cut. Of course the French tried to claim that they invented them, but to no avail. The Belgians were selling their fried potatoes from carts in the mid -1850s.

I remember how French's mustard was assailed because of their name; they refused to bow to pressure. Face it, we can be pretty stupid at times. Like during both World Wars we accused people who owned dogs of German origin, notably dachshunds, of being sympathetic to the German cause, Kaiser or Fuehrer. Most people aren't aware that during WWII, there weren't just persons of Japanese ancestry being sent to relocation centers, but people of German and Italian ancestry as well. Stupid on top of stupid.