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Food Time Episode 4: Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party & Jollywood Nights at Hollywood Studios
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The holidays are here (by Disney standards), so that means one thing, Holiday Food Time! The guys discuss all the delicious food and drinks coming to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party at Magic Kingdom and Jollywood Nights at Hollywood Studios.
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Festive Introduction and Holiday Food Excitement
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What time is it? Holiday food time. What time is it? Holiday food time. Holidays are here, so our mission is clear.
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It's holiday food time, holiday food time.
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The race have been late and Trevor took some lactate. Because it's holiday food time, holiday food time. With Tom and Trevor, this will take forever. Because it's holiday food time, holiday food time.
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Jingle bells chime, but I'm stuck in line. Because it's holiday food time, holiday food time.
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Holiday food time, holiday food time.
Disney's Holiday-Themed Events Overview
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It's food time brought to you by Welcome Home Podcast. I got I'm Tom. I got Trevor next to me here. Hello. This is our special holiday edition of food time that we've been very excited to do for a while now. i We haven't done a food time in a while, Trevor, and now we get to do a holiday
Food Preferences Debate: Sweets and More
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version.
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Yeah, since since the summer, I think, was ah was the last we did. But yeah this this one in particular, I'm i'm excited for because ah you're actually going to possibly get to try some of these things because we're looking at Very Merry Christmas Party, which you're actually going to.
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So this isn't just, ah you know, looking at it in this, you know, what's good. But I think Tom's going to be making a short list here of hopefully, you know, stuff he gets to try. And um I might try and force you to try some stuff. Try and force me to try what?
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and Well, i mean I mean, because I know that there you yourre yours and my food palette are different. That's true. And i'm sure there's some things on this menu you'll look at and go like, I don't really want to try them. And I'll be like, come on, you got to try it.
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To be fair. Yeah. To me, the holidays are about sweets. So, and i there are very few sweets that I will not eat. Like any sweet I'm in.
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Right. So, I don't know. We'll see. Fair. But I know that, like, I know also, like, there is going to be a lot of non-food stuff on this menu.
Strategic Holiday Food Planning
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and And actually, to be fair, Magic Kingdom is generally... relatively tame in terms of the kind of flavors that they put out. so yeah this probably won't be the same as like food and wine where there's like some crazy stuff that Tom is like, Trevor, you're insane. Don't.
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I'm not eating that. So that's exactly right, Trevor. So, I mean, because like looking through this, I mean, when you know, just going through this before before we did the show here, I didn't really see anything that was like, you know, really, I was looking at all like, oh, that's gross.
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If anything, I'm looking at this and I'm like, I want to eat all this. Like, I don't have any time. I'm not going to have time to eat all these things. And I want to eat all of these things. And I cannot cannot eat all of these things. Well, I mean, if you plan accordingly, yeah, you could. No, you know going do an i know physically, I cannot eat all of these things.
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ah So, you know, I'm going to try to eat as many things as I can. and But, you know, it is it's tough. There's a lot of things there, you know. Yeah. So. So why don't we get into it? And yeah I guess we are starting with with.
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Very Merry Christmas Party, I assume. And then we'll do we also have Jollywood Nights as well. Yeah. So you want to go ahead? We can go ahead and start with with ah with Very Merry. And then we will, like you said, we will go to Jollywood Nights after that.
Main Street Bakery and Plaza Ice Cream Parlor Delights
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So so let's let's get going with this and we'll we'll start talking about ah Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party and all the delicious food that's going to come along with that.
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So look at this. We got just to start off here, but we're going to get into that one further down the line. Right. Like we're not that's not really how we're starting here. So it's it's really just ah the the cover photo, so to speak. Right. Yeah. so whatever that is, I'm I'm looks like there's some coconut going on there. So, yeah. Oh, there's definitely coconut.
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You know what? that and You want to talk about things that I'm out on? That's like the one thing I'm out on. So, um yeah, I know. All right. So let's get started, though. Let's get started. We'll go we'll go right to Main Street Bakery here. We got one new item at Main Street Bakery, and that is this lovely looking Christmas wreath cake.
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and And this is a peppermint confetti cupcake filled with chocolate ganache. Topped with marshmallow buttercream and chocolate decor. Very festive. Nothing super special about this, right? I mean, you know. Yeah. I mean, it it it looks, i again, the picture looks, it looks like a nineteen fifty s like, glass um figurine of some sort is what I'm getting from it.
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But in terms of the, yeah. um flavor. It's, yeah, it's just a chocolate, a chocolate cupcake with, I guess, it says peppermint confetti, which means it's not even, good there's not even a lot of peppermint going.
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So, I mean, is that like funfetti, but with peppermint, is that what we're doing here? Is that, guess. Okay. i don't know By the way, this is all of the items that are party exclusive are marked as such, right? So this is one of those items that you can only get at the party.
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So it's important to note. I don't know that I would trade hunting for the cookies at the party for this. Just putting that out there. That's fair. That's fair. The next item and we have over at Main Street Bakery, though, is just the classic, you know, they have this every year deal, which is the Mickey cinnamon roll, ah you know, with the holiday themed icing, you know, pretty straightforward cinnamon roll with some with some ah with some ah icing on it. They had this kind of thing forever there. So this is not really a new thing, right?
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Yeah. Yeah. I'm not excited about it. Yeah. But i mean, listen, it's ah it's an old standard. You can go have it and still be happy with it. you know If you're looking for a festive cinnamon roll, that's fine.
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But we do have some new stuff over at the Plaza Ice Cream Parlor. So to start off here, we do have a ah Santa hat and sundae, which is a brownie topped with vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, crushed peppermint, whipped cream, a red velvet cone, and marshmallow pom-pom.
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This is also a party exclusive. um again This is a really basic ice cream sundae, but again, it's the Plaza Ice Cream Parlor. So, you know, what do you expect from there?
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I expect that kind of thing. They are kind of covering the spectrum of flavors here. yeah yeah know Yeah, exactly. You've got
Exploring Holiday-Themed Snacks and Treats
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vanilla, fudge, peppermint, red velvet going on.
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Like, that's a lot, honestly. It's all good stuff there, yeah. Yeah, like, that's a lot. I do find it funny. Like, I know they're trying to position it as a Santa hat thing, but it it literally looks like somebody just took an ice cream cone and just, like, mashed it into a bowl. Just mashed that up. It's like, yeah, I mean, that's like, no hey, we need to come up with a Christmas sundae this year. Okay, we got this brownie sundae. Let's just take this cone and smash it on the top.
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excuse me I mean, i'm not I'm not saying that's what they did, but it might be what they did. yeah so Somebody may have just looked down gone hu but yeah and huh? Santa hat? yeah There's some marshmallow in there? I mean, we also, though, have we do have a gingerbread shake. How are you how are you on gingerbread in general? You're a gingerbread fan? I've Very much like good gingerbread. that The one thing, like I'll take a good gingerbread cookie. If it's like a gingerbread house that's been sitting out forever and it's stale, want nothing to do with it. But yeah, I will always go for for gingerbread.
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like that's I mean, actually, I think, or well, are I have tea with me this morning, but it's not it's not gingerbread. It's cinnamon, but I guess that's kind of... ginger I like the gingerbread flavor, but generally don't like gingerbread cookies because I prefer my cookies to be soft and I find gingerbread cookies to be like I hit it on a table and it breaks, you know, like that's yeah not kind of that's not my thing, you know?
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Yeah, I think that's part of it, too, is that, you know, not all gingerbread is made the same. So and as far as a gingerbread shake goes, like, I mean, you know me, I'm i'm not going out of my way for a milkshake, but yeah.
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It's vanilla ice cream, gingerbread syrup, and ginger snap crumbs on top with whipped cream and a chocolate gingerbread man. So that's what we're looking at here. Yeah. yeah so So far, I'm not, like, super impressed with any of these things, to be honest. Well, we just got started, Trevor. like All right. Let's go over to the plaza. Not everyone's favorite place in the world. But, you know, this is if you want to make a reservation for dinner.
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ah The first thing, you know, when i when we booked this thing, the first thing my mom said to me was, where we have dinner and I said, you know, the the kingdom is our oyster. Like I'm not, we weren't going to, I wasn't going to book ah any dining reservations here, you know, quick service everywhere.
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yeah Yeah, exactly. So that being said though, the the Plaza does have some options. And the first one here is a holiday beef pot roast, which is ah served in a puff pastry crust with mashed potatoes, beer battered onion rings, and a black garlic truffle aioli. And again, this is this is not an exclusive, so this is available during regular park hours along with the party.
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Yeah. um Again, it it looks all right. I guess the puff pastry, is that that's kind of the the interesting thing there. is i I don't usually get puff pastry with my pot roast, so it kind of makes it or I'm thinking of like what are those called?
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Yorkshire Puddings is what kind of reminds me of. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. So it's giving that, which I mean, is very like that. That's very much a holiday thing. And yeah, I mean, I guess think it's all right. Yeah. If you're a pot roast fan, you're going to be very excited about this menu, these menus, because there's a lot of pot roast going on. I don't know what's going on with the pot roast, but there's a lot of pot roast going on.
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But I will say because there's puff pastry here, I question how much actual pot roast you're getting in this particular one. Well, yeah, I mean, that's fair. That's fair. That's fair. Well, how are you feeling about a holiday turkey meatloaf with mashed potatoes, green beans, cornbread crumbles, and a cranberry barbecue sauce? How we feeling about that one? See, that's better.
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that that that That looks a lot better to me, like in terms of the amount of meat you're getting with it. And the cranberry or, well, barbecue sauce on meatloaf in general is really good.
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And I'm wondering, yeah i've I've not had a cranberry barbecue sauce. It's probably very sweet, I would think, right? Yeah, but but yeah but it kind of goes with, you know you know, you've got your turkey stuffing, cranberry sauce. Like, it's kind of marrying all that together. So, um yeah, the I would pick this over the pot roast.
00:10:36
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I would pick this over the pot roast as well. I'm not usually big meatloaf fan, but that's usually because it's made with meat. I like, you know, turkey I'm good with. So I would try this. This this sounds pretty good. And we also do have... ahead, sorry.
00:10:48
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I was just going to say that um we've we've had like places like Primetime, 50s Diner and whatnot, like they serve meatloaf. I've not had bad meatloaf at Disney World specifically.
00:10:59
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so That's good. That's good. so i'm assuming this is going to be a good one. Then they also have a new dessert as well that is a pistachio and cherry cheesecake. And this has Morello cherry compote. Now, you had me at Morello cherries. I love cherries.
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I'm okay with cheesecake. Cheesecake is not my favorite, but I'll eat it. Pistachios is where you lose me. Really? Not a pistachio fan. ah See, it's funny because every I'm fine with everything except the cherries, which is the majority of this. I mean, that's yeah that's that's the majority of it.
00:11:30
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ah Yeah, cheries cherries are just not my thing. I just don't like cherries. and Yeah, looking at this is, yeah, not ah cherries not feeling it. All that's fair. All right, all right. let's Well, you know, we don't you and I don't really drink, but there is a a holiday Cosmo going on here, which is ah Granger's Deluxe Organic Vanilla Vodka.
00:11:51
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It was a Contro Liquor, licorur sorry, Liquor. Mm-hmm. Uh, cranberry and lime juices garnished with a sugar rim. and i am not a, you know, huge drinker, but if I were going to class it up, I would, I would, uh, I would try this. This looks pretty, pretty delicious. I mean, it sounds like it would be very yummy, right? Yeah. i mean I mean, I I, if I could get it without the vodka and the liqueur, I like it would just be cranberry with lime juice. Like that, that that's an okay mocktail to me. Like I, I, I very much would go for something like that too.
00:12:21
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Yeah, yeah, I would agree with that. Let's move over to Casey's, though, because Casey's cracking me up because I feel like Casey's is like all the time. I love Casey's, by the way. I'm not going to dis Casey's. I really do like Casey's. Casey's is great for a little stop, like, you know, right there on Main Street.
00:12:37
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Like you real you can stop there real easily, you know, grab grab a good hot dog. But Casey's is like, to me, almost like Taco Bell, where like Taco Bell has like 10 ingredients and then they just keep making it into different into different things with the same 10 ingredients.
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Like that's what Casey's is doing. Right. It's like we got a bunch of pot roast. We got these mini hot dogs. You know, let's do it. Yeah, I'll be honest. So unlike you, Casey's is not my first stop. I'm not saying it's my first stop. I'm saying it's a solid stop.
00:13:06
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Well, so the first item here is a holiday pot roast hot dog. And the reason I was joking about this is because they have all the dishes basically have pot roasts. Yeah. And so my thing with this is it's like a hot dog is kind of enough on its own.
00:13:24
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Yeah. There is way too much going on here. Yeah. So this an all beef hot dog topped with pot roast, beer cheese sauce, crispy onions and horseradish, horseradish mustard. That's hard word to say.
00:13:34
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Okay. Okay, horseradish mustard with pot roast, yeah. But and because you've got a hot dog, so it's a hot dog and pot roast and beer cheese sauce. It's And
Upscale Party-Exclusive Dishes
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onions. Like, wow. Like, I, yeah.
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That's a lot. Yeah. I don't know that I could actually, like, process this while I'm eating it. yeah By the way, this is also party exclusive. So all the stuff at at Casey's is party exclusive. But yeah, no, it's a lot. It's definitely this is this is you can't walk around and eat this. Right. You have to sit down and eat this because you're going to just be dropping stuff left and right.
00:14:07
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You're going be feeding the squirrels. Right. Like that's. Yeah. i would I would worry, like, eating something like this, like, at the start of the party, i feel like would kind of ruin. yeah It would ruin my appetite for anything else.
00:14:23
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Like, it just steams, like, a lot. Yeah, well, and then you also, here, though, you also have the Holiday Pot Roast Mini Corn Dogs. Now... I love a good mini corn dog over over there. And all they did, basically, they took the exact same thing for the pot roast hot dog and just did it with mini hot dogs. It's the same thing. It's pot roast, beer cheese, crispy onions, horseradish mustard. It's just on the mini hot dogs instead of a regular hot dog.
00:14:47
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Yeah, you're either choosing a hot dog or or corn dogs for your delivery method for this. for Yeah. Yeah. and And they did the exact... Again, the third dish is the exact same thing just with French fries.
00:15:01
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And now, at least, Trevor, they didn't call it poutine, though. At least they didn't call it poutine. Yeah, yeah. These are... Yeah, so they're they're calling them loaded French fries, which is fair. And it's... I mean, honestly, of the three, I feel this is the the most the most acceptable one, only because of the fact that it's not like trying to pair hot dogs with a pot roast, which I feel like...
00:15:24
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It's just too much meat. Too much meat. This is, yeah, like like, you know, loaded fries. It's like, yeah, you know, you're kind of getting, know, you get the fries and the pot roast and everything. Of the three, this is the one that I would actually consider just because i feel like I could not eat a whole bunch of pot roast and a hot dog at the same time.
00:15:43
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See, if i if I were going to go with this, I would go with the corn dogs because I feel like that's a little bit more of a controllable dish. I could eat it with a fork. and oh I mean, the the French fries, I mean, I go with eyesr either one. Yeah, you're still sitting down and eating. Like, you're you're not walking. Like, any anyone who thinks that you're walking around eating this, you're not.
00:16:00
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You're not. Don't even try. Yeah, ah you're you got to sit down to eat these, especially the hot dog. The hot dog is the hardest of the of the three. ah And then this isn't a new one, but we do have the candy cane tart that has been around for, I feel like quite a while now. This is this has been a classic dessert over there for for quite a bit.
00:16:17
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yeah I mean, basic ah in terms of it's standard holiday fare. Yeah. I mean, I guess they're not doing anything wrong with it. It's just they're not offering anything new. it's It's a classic.
00:16:30
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It's a classic. Let's call it a classic. But we should leave Casey's, you know, walk on by ah Crystal Palace over there and head over to ah social media's favorite place for food in Magic Kingdom. And that's the spring roll cart. And I'm not going to lie.
00:16:45
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I love the spring roll cart. But I take it I take a little bit of an issue with the picture that they gave us on this because So it's it's a new item. It's pastrami Reuben spring rolls, which serve with a Thousand Island dressing or Thousand Island sauce, let's say. Right. And this is this is party exclusive as well.
00:17:03
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But why give me a picture of just the spring? Like, I want to see what's inside of the spring rolls. I don't want to know what's on the like. That could be anything. That could be any spring roll. Like, why give me that picture?
00:17:14
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You know, like, it's literally just the spring roll as a whole. Just break it open. Show me what's inside. Yeah. Congratulations. you We know what a spring roll casing looks like. That's exactly what it is. But given, listen, pastrami reuben spring rolls sounds pretty good. but And I would love to see what that looks like.
00:17:29
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and So a reuben is usually, it's so it's pastrami, sauerkraut, and what else goes on a reuben? I don't remember. Is there mustard on a ribbon? i yeah No, it's a thousand island. It's a thousand island. Okay. So, so all right. they're doing the thousand island as the sauce. Okay. So it's, so pastrami and I'm assuming that there's some, there's probably sauerkraut in there. I would think. Yeah.
00:17:51
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But who knows Trevor? We don't know. Yeah. Yeah. yeah I, somebody missed the mark on this one. Yeah. Just break it open, man. I mean, maybe they tried to take pictures of it it didn't photograph well. I don't i don't know.
00:18:02
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i don't But right. Well, let's move away. That could be. Yeah. The inside of a Reuben doesn't actually look appetizing all the time now that I think about it. That is a fair point. And yeah, but listen, it's the spring roll cart. You know, there's going to be a line. Everybody loves the spring roll cart. So, ah but we should continue to mosey on into Adventureland here, Trevor, and go to one of your favorite places, I'm sure, which is Aloha Isle Refreshment. What do they got this year?
00:18:30
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We do that we have a du do have a new item, which is a pomegranate yule float. ginger ale with Dole Whip pomegranate, vanilla soft serve, pomegranate boba pearls, and a slice of lime.
00:18:42
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This is a non-alcoholic beverage, and it is party exclusive. So that's a pretty good-looking float. If you like pomegranate, I guess. if yout yeah so um I'm definitely interested in and in a pomegranate Dole Whip. um the I'm wondering if you could get it without the vanilla soft serve.
00:19:00
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like So not do the swirl, you do just yeah just straight pomegranate. And I get why they're doing the swirl, because it very much gives that candy cane aesthetic to it. It does, yeah. um But I would just ask for the pomegranate and and try and get that. Because, yeah, like I said, I just i i tend to avoid vanilla ice cream. We all know why.
00:19:19
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But, um yeah, it's that that looks really that And then with boba, pomegranate boba as well. Oh, yeah. ah Is the boba underneath the ice cream? I thought yeah i mean i it on i think it in there. I think I see it. Yeah. It's sitting it's kind of sitting at the bottom of the jar.
00:19:36
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okay Yeah, ginger ale, pomegranate ginger ale is really good. don't know if you've got it. love ginger. Like, I'm a huge ginger ale fan. Like, we drink ginger ale in my house a lot. I love ginger ale. Yeah, we get, to like, during the the holidays up here, at least, we get, like, cranberry and pomegranate ginger Oh, yeah. You can get in the store, like, yeah. so Absolutely.
00:19:54
Speaker
Cranberry ginger ale is delicious. Yeah. I would definitely be going for this. So then they we have the returning Santa surf snack float, which is ah this this ah it's a it's a minute-made passion fruit, orange guava juice, coconut soft serve, spiced pineapple tree pop.
00:20:10
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Again, non-alcoholic. This one is available during both regular and uh end party hours so this one is not exclusive the first one is though so ah so you know make sure that you know that you can only get those during that time yeah now we're going to keep on walking trevor all right keep on walking our way over we're going over to frontier land we're going to go hit over the golden oak outpost golden oak has decided not to update anything this year so we've just got some returning yuletide chicken strips which you know Have some sage butter and cranberry barbecue glaze on them. I remember talking about these last year.
00:20:44
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ah But then we also got some festive beignets as well. You got some blue sugar cookie dust on there. Some cookie butter icing. You know, nothing crazy,
Quirky and Creative Holiday Offerings
00:20:53
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i mean right? Those chicken strips just look delicious.
00:20:56
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they they do look right They look good, yeah. yeah like this I might end up eating this, to be to be honest. like We might end up over here. I would have those with the Dole Whip. Yeah. They're close enough together. Like you can get the chicken strips and walk over any of the chicken strips and then you get the Dole Well, you can also, though, you can you can also over there, you can get ah gingerbread cola.
00:21:16
Speaker
which is Coca-Cola with gingerbread syrup in it, whipped cream and festive sprinkles. Again, this is a returning item, but this feels like it would go very nicely with your Yuletide chicken strips. Interesting.
00:21:28
Speaker
ah yeah I don't know how I feel about, like, I know that there's like cherry Coke and like all these different flavors of of Coke you you can get. I don't know how I feel about gingerbread in my Coke. It feels like it's a very like Coke is a very um like it has like its own spice to it already.
00:21:44
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Yeah. And then adding gingerbread, I feel like it might actually be too much. i would i want I would try it because i I agree with you. You know, like vanilla works very well with Coke. Cherry works very well with Coke. Yeah, because it's kind of like smoothing out bite of the Coke. Right. Whereas this is like you're adding more. It might taste similar almost. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:02
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Yeah, okay, well, that's what we got over at ah at at Golden Oak. Again, this is a little snack cart. You don't expect a lot of things from there, right? But if we continue on our way through Frontierland here, we're going to go over to Pecos Bill and see what they got over there. Now, Pecos Bill, also not really much of an updated menu.
00:22:18
Speaker
They've got these carne asada loaded fries that they had last year. We've got ah ah a quote-unquote Christmas-style chicken to tamale, ah which you know basically just looks like they threw some Christmas colors in there.
00:22:30
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, you could say that, but it looks like they just added whatever, like tomatoes and avocado and rice. Like, okay, I guess that counts as Christmas. Yeah.
00:22:44
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we We tried a thing. We we so so we threw some colors in there. Now, the one new thing at Pago's Build, they actually didn't have a picture for it, which is kind of annoying. ah But they it's ah it's in a rose cone leche wreath.
00:22:57
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with ah So it's rice pudding mousse, citrus chutney, coconut whipped cream, and a chocolate bow. This is a party exclusive item. I don't have a picture for you because they didn't give you a picture.
00:23:07
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Yeah, of course. see i I would have been curious to see what that looks like, but. I would too. Now, they actually, I shouldn't say the only new thing, because they also do have Mexican hot chocolate mini churros, which are tossed with hot cocoa by Joffrey's.
00:23:23
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So, Joffrey's hot cocoa, cinnamon, warm spices, served with sprinkles and marshmallow fluff dip. Now, I would get this. i like I love a good churro, and I love hot cocoa, and I feel like hot cocoa is a good...
00:23:38
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is a good addition to churros, you know? how it's And those little marshmallows are, I don't know. I'm imagining they're like the same marshmallows you get in... and Like the hot cocoa? Yeah, yeah little like they're they're they're not like fluffy. They're almost like crunchy. hard.
00:23:56
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Yeah, they're crunchy. Yeah, yeah which is like... It's not a bad thing, though. i yeah yeah It adds to it, right? Like like if if it's like a hot chocolate that you're going for, it kind of adds to the... Yeah, the the vibe of it. So, yeah, I i can see that. It's ah yeah, I don't know that it would be or I guess we have to wait and see what else is on here. I don't know this is would be like the thing that I would go for at the party.
00:24:21
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Well, this I mean, this yeah i mean this is this is it for Pecos Bill, except for a frozen hot cocoa, which is a thing I would go for, for sure. I love frozen hot cocoa. It's got toasted marshmallow syrup with chocolate sauce, marshmallows, festive sprinkles.
00:24:36
Speaker
Again, this is a party exclusive. It's non-alcoholic. This is a thing that I would absolutely get because, i again, I do love frozen hot chocolate. And, ah you know, this is also one of those things I'd probably get because I am going to be looking for things to sugar up my daughter with.
00:24:51
Speaker
So she can stay up later. So this is a perfect sugar delivery method. or So sorry, i've I've never had frozen hot cocoa before. How does that work exactly? Because hot cocoa is like hot. Is it just like a slushy version of a hot chocolate? like Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:25:08
Speaker
but Okay. um Yeah. It's I don't know exactly how they make it. I mean, it's I, you know, but it I mean, like you've had it. is Is it like I've had it. Yeah. No, I've had frozen hot cocoa before. You can get it from like ah like Dunkin Donuts, a place like that. You know you can get frozen hot cocoa. I mean, I guess or cold at least. Yeah. you Yeah. Maybe they sell it up here. I guess.
00:25:28
Speaker
and I don't know how popular it would be in the the colder areas. When it's freezing colds, yeah, that'd be a little rough. Yeah, I would i would agree with that. I would agree. So, yeah, but that's a thing that I will, you know, if I'm walking by there and I remember, i you know, I might hit that up because that feels like it would be very refreshing, especially since it's going be Florida.
00:25:46
Speaker
You never know. Could be 80 degrees that day. we We'll have to find out. We'll see. ah But, you know, yeah. So let's continue our walk, though, Trevor, over to ah Liberty Square, you know,
00:25:59
Speaker
Not a lot going on at Liberty Square. And in fact, we have a returning item, which is the Mickey whoopie pie. i have to tell you, though, Trevor, this looks delicious, right? It's a chocolate cake sandwich with marshmallow mint buttercream.
00:26:10
Speaker
I feel like they need to go a little darker on the green. I feel like the green they have in there is more Halloween than it is. It's more Halloween than it is Christmas to me. I need a little darker. I have to wonder if we but we would have to go back and look at what they were offering during like the Halloween parties. And it might be something where they just have like a large amount of this icing and they're just like, hey, we can use the icing during the Halloween party and then just, you know, immediately, you know, move over to the Christmas party with it.
00:26:40
Speaker
Add a couple extra drops of the green food coloring in there. Come on. oh I think yeah you need to add some ah some white or something in there. because like i it like It's that neon green. It needs to be lighter.
00:26:53
Speaker
but yes yeah it needs to See, I think it needs to be darker. actually yeah yeah color I want more Christmas tree color. I was thinking, yeah, you're right. I i was thinking more like um like ornaments and stuff. You can have like a lighter green. But yeah if yeah, if you want Christmas tree green,
00:27:08
Speaker
like a christmas tree green You're right. A little bit more of the food coloring would do that well. But then i guess the thing is, you get to that really dark green, it might be one of these things where it affects the taste.
00:27:19
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. But, yeah, it's very, yeah, that it's funny how, like, you you got, like, this nice dark, you know, chocolate pie. And then it's just, like, neon green. Yeah. it It looks like ecto-cooler color. I might be dating myself with that reference. but Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:38
Speaker
or Or, yeah, like ecto slime. Yeah, yeah. It looks it looks very Ghostbusters. so yeah But let's move on over to to Sleepy Hollow, though, because Sleepy Hollow is one of my favorite snack spots. But we do have two returning items over at Sleepy Hollow. We have an orange chicken strip, which is ah drizzled with orange soy glaze, ah glass noodles, green onions, crispy garlic. That looks like a solid option to me.
00:28:01
Speaker
You know, again, only available during the party. But, you know, that is that is something you can get. There's also a Szechuan cauliflower. So if you're not going to I mean, it seems, you know, it's that it's different. Yeah. Yeah. A little vegan option there. Right. Or.
00:28:16
Speaker
Yeah. So you get the spicy breaded cauliflower with the Szechuan soy glaze, glass noodles, green onions and crispy garlic. ah The one new thing we got we got here, though, is, and, you know, Sleepy Hollow ah is known for their funnel cakes, right, and their waffles and and that kind of thing.
00:28:32
Speaker
And so the new item we get that is ah another party exclusive, which is a peppermint bark funnel cake, which is topped with vanilla ice cream, peppermint, white chocolate sauces, M&M's.
00:28:43
Speaker
ah and Specifically, M&M's milk chocolate candies holiday blend. just red and green that's exactly right it's they could just say red and green m&ms but you know whatever whipped cream crushed peppermint and festive sprinkles there's a lot going on on this but this feels like it would be delicious yeah i mean ah i feel like there's enough peppermint going on like for me it's if they just do like a little bit of peppermint on top it's not that's not enough like i want the peppermint to be hitting me in the face And it feels like they're doing that here because you got the sauce, you got the the actual crushed peppermint.
00:29:19
Speaker
and And then, yeah, you know, obviously, you know, color wise. but The funny thing is, is that, you know, the M&Ms are that same neon green color as the whoopie pie we were looking at. That's true. Yeah.
00:29:32
Speaker
But it works a little better because it's alongside the red instead of the chocolate. So it's not it's not standing out quite as much. there's a lot more light colors going on. Yeah. Then there are. Yeah. Cause the other one, it's like so dark and like this one, you got light colors going on. So it looks a lot, it looks a lot better.
00:29:47
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. By the way, you can also get the Mickey whoopie pie from here as well. The same one we just looked at with the, the green news as part of it. Yeah. Yeah. um But if we continue down on Liberty Square here, Columbia Harbor House, we just have one thing here. But this is a returning item. This is the gingerbread cake.
00:30:05
Speaker
I actually remember talking about this last year, and I think they've had this for a little while now. And I really want to try this. I know this is like a returning, but I want to try this. I'm not all about new here, but this is ah a gingerbread chiffon cake with cream cheese frosting, whipped dulce de leche panna cotta, crispy pearls, and a chocolate piece.
00:30:21
Speaker
I think this looks delicious. It looks fantastic, first of all, but it also just looks delicious. I want to try it. Yeah. I mean, and it's just, you know, we talked about like gingerbread cookies being like too hard.
00:30:33
Speaker
This is just gingerbread flavor. Exactly. You're just getting like that gingerbread flavor, but it's, yeah, it looks like a delicious cake. and And I do like the fact that it's, um you know, it's looking like a Christmas tree. Like it's it's simple, but it's also like very on point festively. Like it looks like a gingerbread man standing in front of a Christmas tree, which is like.
00:30:55
Speaker
Yeah, it's exactly what you want. It is very much that that festive thing. And yeah, if you're if you're wanting cake, and that's if you're okay.
00:31:06
Speaker
that That feels like the cake you should get. Yeah, I would agree with that. All right. So if we continue that walk, Trevor, we the land we're going to end up in next is Fantasyland. And what do we have in Fantasyland? old standard for me. We we stop it.
00:31:20
Speaker
Listen, Pinocchio Village House is not the best place to eat, but it's not. It's it's it's solid. Right. You get some flatbreads there. You got it's a nice it's a nice central part of the park. But we do have a couple new dishes here ah for that are Christmas party exclusive.
00:31:34
Speaker
And one of those is this holiday ravioli, which is fried breaded ravioli with marinara sauce, basil, pesto, parmesan and parsley. I'm going to tell you right now, Trevor, I will be eating this most like 90 percent sure that this is going to be eaten by me. All right. All right.
00:31:50
Speaker
Because i love raviolis. I love a good ah fried ravioli. I can almost guarantee that we're going to end up at Pinocchio Village House. And just based on looking at what's what's here, I would I would go with this, you know, apps because i I love a good pesto, too.
00:32:04
Speaker
So to me, this looks this looks yummy. I mean, I don't know. It's Pinocchio Village House and they usually do flatbreads. And but I mean, I can't imagine that that this would be bad. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, the you know you're right.
00:32:15
Speaker
Pinocchio Village House is kind of like the menu itself isn't great, but I think about previous years that the stuff that they offer at parties always kind of does seem to be better than what's on the regular menu. It's very puzzling if you think about it. It's like, why don't they just do that?
00:32:32
Speaker
Or like, why can't this just be on the menu? Yeah. Period. Because they don't need they need to make more things. like So that the volume is different, right? I think that's probably what it Yeah, I guess. yeah And fried ravioli is probably not something that they can mass produce, which is fair.
00:32:46
Speaker
yeah But yeah, it the the funny thing is is that you know we talked about other places trying to do you know the the holiday festive colors and it not quite working. This actually is we like the the Parmesan with the pesto and the sauce. And the the red sauce, yeah. like It's like, oh yeah, it actually is...
00:33:04
Speaker
pretty festive. It is giving that festive. But then also you're just getting fried ravioli, which is not that's not anything holiday. No, per se. But I mean, i you're right. I wouldn't pass up a good fried ravioli either. It sounds delicious to me. Like, I mean, you know, now I'm not going to lie, though. This is a returning item. This sounds pretty good, too, actually, which is an Italian sausage and meatball lasagna flatbread. It's a three cheese Italian blend.
00:33:29
Speaker
And ricotta topped with pesto. I mean, I wouldn't say no to that either if it were in front of me. I would eat that. Yeah, and and it's kind of like it's using kind of some of the same ingredients as the fried ravioli.
00:33:43
Speaker
Between the two, I would still go for the ravioli over the flatbread. I would too. I know Village House flatbread is their thing. don't know. I just don't want flatbread when I'm from Magic Kingdom. I agree.
00:33:56
Speaker
I'm not saying it's wrong. like if If that's what you want, that's fine. But I just don't want flatbread. That's fair. That's fair. And then we end up over at the snowflake ornament, which we saw in the very beginning of ah of this. And this is ah this is the you know a nice a really nice looking item. But it's a coconut eggnog mousse in a white chocolate shell with sugar decor. You know, I'm not going to lie. When I first saw this, Trevor, I thought it was a cookie.
00:34:21
Speaker
um Or like, ah you know, I don't know. It just felt like a cookie. But it's it's it's actually a mousse with a chocolate shell on top of it. Interesting. Yeah, I was thinking it was a cookie as well. but And this is actually the first eggnog anything we've seen so far.
00:34:35
Speaker
That is true, yeah. and So that that's kind of interesting. And also it's coconut eggnog. um for For me, um i do I do go for coconut eggnog because I don't like as much as I would love to drink regular eggnog. It doesn't agree with me. Yeah. Um, so coconut eggnog, you know, may not like, like you say you know, if you're not a fan of coconut, it probably won't work for you.
00:34:58
Speaker
Nope. But this is kind of hitting some of the marks for me. And so this is that item that I would have said, you know, we were talking at the beginning, Tom, where I was like, you should go try that just because I'm curious what it's like, but I know you would probably not enjoy.
00:35:13
Speaker
it's I mean, listen, I'm not an eggnog fan and I'm not a coconut fan. This one has two strikes against it. like but I do like moose. I bet it's so good. I'm i'm probably sure it's really good.
00:35:25
Speaker
It probably is. yeah no you're you're You're probably right. It probably is very good. But, you know, I don't know. Fine. Fine. yeah We do have a special beverage, though, too, which is a Burr Raspberry.
00:35:38
Speaker
I don't know if that's what I'm supposed to say. Burr Raspberry Slushie, which is really just Fanta Blue Raspberry Slushie with some coconut cream on top, a whipped cream and sweet blue shredded coconut. Now, this looks really this is very basic, but it looks very appealing. It's a very nice looking dish.
00:35:56
Speaker
Well, not dish, but drink, I should say. Yeah. And so initially I was trying to figure out how this was holiday centric, but I guess ah going for the the the blue is like, I'm guessing the like ice, like frozen kind of.
00:36:10
Speaker
I'm surprised they resisted the temptation to call this, to not call this something frozen related. Like, yeah. Like, you know, like Elsa's, you know, yeah something right. I mean, it feels like they would, should we call it Elsa something, you know? yeah Yeah. Which, which I guess to that point is, yeah I get that they're, they're selling it as a, as a holiday thing.
00:36:30
Speaker
Um, i it's It's definitely a cold or a winter type thing. I don't know how much it's fitting in with the holiday aesthetic. um But I guess if you're wanting blue raspberry slushy, that's fine. yeah yeah yeah Yeah. as as as Snowflakes though. Trevor, what are you talking about? ah That's the only thing about this thing is, like, giving it any kind of Christmas association. Like, if they took those off, they could just sell this any time of year.
00:36:55
Speaker
that's That's true. That's true. So let's let's walk out of Pinocchio Village House make a make a nice little sharp left here and head over towards. Oh, wait, I'm sorry. i Right. We're going to Cinderella's Royal Table.
00:37:06
Speaker
I thought we were going to to be our guest, but we're going to Cinderella's Royal Table, who has all new dishes. Now, again, this is a place where if you don't already have a reservation, you're probably not eating there.
00:37:17
Speaker
Just going to throw it out there. Like you just not if you don't have one at this very moment, you're not eating there. Just going to say it. um yeah but then Unless you get a last minute. that yeah think It could happen. There are Christmas miracles.
00:37:29
Speaker
You never know. Right. Christmas party miracle. But ah and, you know, if you know this, if you know Cinderella's Royal Table. The fare tends to be a little bit more little more upscale. so Yeah, this is very fancy. This is very fancy food here. We start off with a crispy pork belly with ah sweet potato puree, jicama slaw, chestnuts, and apple cranberry glaze.
00:37:52
Speaker
Again, this is awesome. Also, only available during the party. All of these issues are only party available. And that starts at 4 p.m., even though the party doesn't start until 7. So they're starting the the the the the menu at 4 p.m. for guests attending the the party. So if you're a regular guest and you want to go in at 4 p.m., you can't do that.
00:38:10
Speaker
You have to be a party guest. And then you can start at 4 p.m. and start getting some of these things. So just to start off. This looks delicious. Pork belly is delicious always, but this just looks really good. Yeah.
00:38:23
Speaker
On its own, it looks really good. The only thing that's making this festive is the surrounding things that are festive looking. this is This is not. It's not festive anyway. This is not giving anything festive. Like, I know it's the apple cranberries and the chestnuts that they're trying to.
00:38:41
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. position on this but it doesn't look like anything christmasy related and it just looks like a very nice upscale meal of some sort but i agree um i i don't know that they like i don't know that this would need to be party exclusive it doesn't feel like it should be right yeah yeah this feels like it could just be on the regular menu year-round and no would notice right yeah But we also do have a a roasted lamb chop here, which has potatoes au gratin, which is the way I like to eat potatoes au gratin, honey glazed carrots and a cabernet cherry jus.
00:39:16
Speaker
If you're if you're into lamb chops, I'm not a lamb person, but this looks really, really good. it's That's that's a lot of meat for sure. yeah and Yeah. Yeah.
00:39:27
Speaker
Yeah. and And then with the with the carrots and everything again, like this. This is not feeling to me like anything um specifically Christmassy. It's just it's good food. Like it's know don't get me wrong. It looks good, but there's nothing Christmassy about it.
00:39:42
Speaker
OK. I mean, this next one. Yeah. me Beef short rib Wellington is our next dish on here. And this is a mashed mashed potatoes, roasted root vegetables in a red and a red wine sauce.
00:39:54
Speaker
OK, were you saying this next one because you were excited and want to eat it or the next one? so this one, this one is more Christmassy. A beef Wellington is definitely a little more Christmassy. Yeah. christmasy more in line with what I was expecting.
00:40:08
Speaker
um The one thing I will say, I'm i'm noticing it now, is that the the roasted root vegetables are the same as on the previous item. So they're just changing out. like it's You're getting root vegetables, which are good. you know it Don't get me wrong. there i yeah we Anywhere that we've eaten that has this kind of stuff is good.
00:40:26
Speaker
It's just you're choosing whether you're having lamb or beef wellington with your meal. I would go for the beef wellington. Yeah, I mean, I think I'd probably choose that too. Even though i'm not a huge beef eater, I do like short rib. So, like, that's that would be, I think that would be pretty pretty tasty.
00:40:40
Speaker
And again it has that puff pastry. Like, Beef Wellington has all the puff pastry around it, which is just, it's really good. And mashed potatoes. Anytime there's mashed potatoes involved, I'm i'm a happy camper. So ah now we they do another new item, which is hazelnut carriage cake. But there was no picture of this. So unfortunately, um but that is a spiced poached pear, vanilla bean mousse and sugared cranberries, which sounds really good. And I would have liked to see what it looks like. But.
00:41:08
Speaker
Instead, we got a Christmas cocktail. Instead, we got the cranberry Christmas cocktail, which is a gin, cane syrup, cranberry juice, Minute Maid orange juice garnish with cranberries and rosemary.
00:41:19
Speaker
Okay. That's pretty festive. All right. That's again fine. I would ask for the non-alcoholic version of this again. Like, that's just my preference. I don't need the gin. But yeah, everything else is definitely hitting the right notes there.
00:41:32
Speaker
They also have a a cranberry sparkling cocktail, which is Grand Marnier liqueur, cranberry juice. And I don't want to say any of these words. Some sort of really fancy champagne.
00:41:44
Speaker
Nicholas. Yeah, OK. Filouette enchanté champagne. Okay, I could do the Enshantay part. Okay, all right. Yeah, that's fair. I quit when I saw the name the last name of the person.
00:41:55
Speaker
I also just don't know anything about champagne. I don't know if that's... Is that good champagne? I don't know. No clue. I don't drink champagne either.
00:42:03
Speaker
All right. Well, let's descend from the spiral staircase from the castle, Trevor, and and head and head back out into Fantasyland and get ourselves over to be our guest. Another place that skews a little fancier nowadays...
00:42:16
Speaker
When it first opened, it was always a little bit more. i mean, it was definitely the quick service piece has always been a little, you know, it's certainly a several steps up from your from your from your um ah regular quick service places that are around ah Magic Kingdom, whose names I can't think of at the moment. but buts um Why am I blanking, Trevor?
00:42:35
Speaker
the place Yeah, I don't know. Okay. ah But anyway, be our guest. We got some other and other things that are new here. and These, are again, are all exclusive items. Again, it same 4 p.m. rules for this one.
00:42:47
Speaker
But again, if you didn't get a reservation here, probably not going to get one. But, you know, good luck. All right. Let's see what we got. We're the shot. ah So we we also have lamb chops going on here, too. But this ah is a cassoulet, right?
00:43:00
Speaker
Which has lamb sausage, a white bean stew, tomatoes, toasted breadcrumbs, and mint sauce. ah verte ver Vert? I don't know.
00:43:11
Speaker
Vert? Yeah. There's no accent marks on here. So I feel like I i need to be doing an accent, but there's no there's no accent marks. Yeah. Well, well ver is green in French.
00:43:22
Speaker
So I'm guessing it's just like a green sauce, green mint sauce. Yeah. This is really nice. This is a really nice looking dish, though. Yeah. For sure. yeah Again, not I don't know if this is necessarily Christmassy for anybody.
00:43:35
Speaker
um it's just It's good food. like like yeah it it's It's great that these are all party-exclusive things. I'm still trying to figure out where the... Where the Christmas is?...vestivity is coming from.
00:43:46
Speaker
There's some green in there. There's little bit of green. yeah um We also have... ah how How do you say this, Trevor? Is this a Poulay Rouge? Yeah. Poulet Rouge chicken.
00:43:58
Speaker
Yeah. With roasted... Poulet Rouge chicken is redundant. Oh, is it? Poulet is chicken. Oh, so it's what's chicken and then what is Rouge?
00:44:08
Speaker
check Chicken Red Chicken. All right, then. ah It's roasted sweet potatoes. You got chicken, red chicken.
00:44:19
Speaker
Yeah, roasted sweet potatoes and Brussels sprouts with a cranberry pan sauce. At least there's more Christmassy colors going on here, and they threw some cranberry there, right? Yeah. I mean, it looks good. It's got a nice crispy skin on there. yeah This is definitely giving more Christmas, like like closer to like almost a turkey type meal or like turkey stuffing. kind of But yeah, with the cranberries and the roasted Brussels sprouts and everything. um Yeah, it's...
00:44:44
Speaker
I the good Brussels sprout. out ah i This I would actually consider, like, some of the other ones were like, you know, it's it's nice stuff, but I wouldn't, you know, necessarily take up my time at the party stopping for it.
00:44:55
Speaker
This looks a little more interesting to me. Like, I think I would actually stop for this. Yeah. I agree. We also have baked brie and caramelized apple tart with smoked almonds, watercress, and cranberry orange liqueur sauce. Now, this is one, Trevor, that I'm out on. i am not a brie fan. ah Oh, really? like Yeah, I'm not a huge brie fan. I love cheese. Don't love brie.
00:45:17
Speaker
Brie's just one that doesn't do it for me. But... um I don't know. There's something about it that that is something about this that is feels a little more festive to me. I don't know why. I mean, you have the colors there. But bri the baked brie idea, I think, is something people will do around the holidays, you know?
00:45:32
Speaker
Is this one that you would eat, Trevor? Because I know, know, Derry and I... Yeah, I mean, brie is kind of a weird one for me. There are some... believe or not brie is one of those cheeses that as somebody with uh lactose intolerance you can sometimes get away with um i i don't know that i want a whole tart filled with it yeah well that's fair well that's fair yeah yeah yeah i i'm i'm on the fence this one i would be curious about i don't know that i would want to necessarily pay to eat the entire thing.
00:46:05
Speaker
That's fair. It's one of those, like, I would want to try it if somebody else was getting one. i wouldn't want, I wouldn't want to, this is like a bite and like everybody kind of takes a bite and decides if it's good or not. that That's how I feel this would.
00:46:20
Speaker
All right. I can agree with that now. But this next one, Trevor, this suit this is this is all me right here. All right. All right. The flowerless black forest trifle, which has layers of cherry liqueur compote, which makes you are probably out on it unless you like the liqueur, but not the cherries.
00:46:37
Speaker
But a Charlotte Cremeau. Cremeau. Cremeau. cmo a Chantilly cream and festive chocolate pieces. So listen, they did that thing where they, you know, just yeah throw a little holiday on it by throwing, throwing some like chocolate pieces that have stockings on it.
00:46:53
Speaker
But I mean, you know, this kind of dessert does feel very holiday-like. Yeah, you know i will say that that the chocolate pieces do give it like it is the the right amount of festiveness in in terms of I'm i'm not seeing anything else like this. So that they're not just like reusing like because we we've we've commented on this before where it's like they'll take like one like chocolate piece and it's like on everything.
00:47:18
Speaker
You mean like the pod roast at Casey's? Yeah. yeah so So this is unique to to this thing. And, you know, it's ah it's a lot of, again, it's giving that like, it looks like a hot chocolate to me is what it is. Like, even though it's a trifle, it looks like I'm getting the same vibes from it as like, you know, ordering hot chocolate.
00:47:37
Speaker
So. You know, this is delicious too. Like, you don't even need to taste this to know that this is delicious. Like, yeah, it just looks delicious. Yeah, again, the only part for me that I might be out on would be the cherry liqueur. But if it's if it's layered, I could probably eat around it if I decided I didn't like it.
00:47:54
Speaker
But, you know, I wouldn't, you know, give up the rest of the dessert just for that. that's Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I get that. We also do have a couple cocktails. There's a Jolly Holly cocktail, which is some vanilla vodka, some rum, some butterscotch syrup, apple cider, garnish with a sugared graham cracker rim. Okay.
00:48:13
Speaker
Okay. You know, sounds all right. Yeah. And then there's also the mistletoe margarita, which is ah tequila, Grand Marnier, cranberry juice, lime juice, garnish with a sugared rim and cranberries. Again, that is a little more festive, you know.
00:48:28
Speaker
So he here's something interesting about this. I just realized this. Yeah. There's a lot more alcoholic drinks at the party than I remember being in previous years.
00:48:38
Speaker
that Is that a new thing this year? I don't know. I think they've always had them at like the restaurants proper, but like not right outside of the restaurant. But I guess, yeah, the thing is, like I know in Magic Kingdom you're not, or at least you know with like Beacon Barrel and stuff, you can't just go walking around with an alcoholic drink like they're very clear about.
00:48:57
Speaker
You sit in here and drink it, you don't. You can't get it to go kind of thing. Which and the interesting thing for me is i don't remember there being quite as much emphasis on alcoholic drinks at the Christmas parties. And I don't know if that's and don't know if that's a good or a bad thing because, you know, alcoholic drinks have always kind of felt like a food and wine thing.
00:49:17
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I get it. But I also get to like from a holiday standpoint, you know, holidays are a time when a lot of people... do, you know, you know, partake festive drinks. So it's like, I mean, i don't know if tequila is on the menu and around the holidays. i around you maybe always on the menu trevor i yeah Yeah, guess. so Yeah.
00:49:39
Speaker
Yeah. just Just, just an observation is that there, i'm I'm surprised at the amount of alcoholic drinks we've gone to what's this year. Well, after we have these drinks, we stumble our way out of out of ah be our guest and and and move our way over to to the fryer's nook, which much like Casey's, you know, is a it's a good place to just get ah a random quick snack sometimes. Right.
00:50:01
Speaker
You know, it's not going to be the most high, ah high quality food that you're going to get. But there's some solid stuff there. and one of the new items we have. i get I guess it's giving festive with the jalapenos. It's the color. They're doing colors here. But yeah jalapeno popper tots, which are topped with jalapeno cream cheese sauce,
00:50:22
Speaker
Bacon cheddar and jalapeno popper just flopped on the top there. Again, party only for this one. ah But this is i listen, it's a good little snack. Is it super festive?
00:50:33
Speaker
No, but it's got the colors of Christmas, right? Yeah. i mean i will there I would consider the lactate for this. Oh, you would? Really? I do like it.
00:50:45
Speaker
Jalapeno poppers are a weakness for me, even though there is a lot of cream in them. Yeah. Usually. um but i do like a good jalapeno popper and, you know, what whether I would, you know, undo the rest of my night having this, like this, this might be a, like ah a late snack.
00:51:03
Speaker
It's a late night snack. If you partied hard, like this is ah on your way out of the park kind of thing. like Yeah. Yeah. but But, definitely looks good. And like I said, it's funny that they're using the, the jalapenos as the look, it's festive. It's like, yeah, but that's just jalapenos. It's just jalapenos. It looks good.
00:51:22
Speaker
we Yeah, it it does. It does. We also do have a spinach artichoke hand pie. Now, listen, ah artichoke like dip to me is something I feel like we've always we always had around the holidays. So like that feels a little holiday-y for me, even though this is not really artichoke dip. But it's a flaky hand pie filled with cheesy spinach and artic artichoke dip and drizzled with the red pepper sauce. So, like...
00:51:43
Speaker
it's For me personally, it hits it hits a holiday spot just because like my family would have a holiday party every year, you know like a Christmas Eve party. Yeah, with that spinach or artichoke dip. yeah yeah that Yeah. That's the one thing I would avoid, a party.
00:51:58
Speaker
Yeah, that's fair. So that this is not doing anything. for Well, maybe this next thing will do something for because it does for me. And that's a pig in a blanket. Now, it's singular pig. So it's one it's one hot dog.
00:52:10
Speaker
ah Parmesan puff pastry wrapped all-beef hot dog, crispy onions, honey mustard barbecue sauce served with tots. I would absolutely eat this. okay it's yeah It's nothing classy, but I would eat this in a heartbeat.
00:52:21
Speaker
Sorry. Yeah. This, this is beating what Casey's is off. I agree. I read this. Yeah. is upfront Is that like, if I was going to like, this is a hot dog, but this is, this is a lot more what I would want without like throwing all the extra stuff on top.
00:52:37
Speaker
Right. And then yeah. Serve with honey mustard. Oh yeah. but Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I would go for this for sure. And you got some tots on the side. Forget it. it's good for it's It's a done deal. I'll probably this. I didn't think I would want anything from Fryer's Nook, to be honest. so This surprises me that this would...
00:52:52
Speaker
Like Fryer's Nook is usually something that I just walk past. Yeah. Yeah. Listen, pigs in a blanket, though, to are a holiday thing for me, too. I don't I don't think that there's any, ah you know, time that we have a holiday like a Christmas party or anything like that where we don't have pigs in a blanket. So this this does it may not be like a holiday-esque food, but it is the something we always have around the holidays.
00:53:13
Speaker
yeah So they also do have a a drink as well that they're calling the ugly sweater shake, which points for the name. It is. yeah Okay. yeah I was going to say, whoa, that thing is crazy. But okay. Ugly sweater. yes it They're leaned into it. Vanilla shake topped with whipped cream, festive sprinkles, apple caramel sauce, cherry coating, and a chocolate piece.
00:53:33
Speaker
It is non-alcoholic and it is also exclusive to the party. Now, really nothing special as far as milkshakes go, right? It's basically just vanilla shake they threw some stuff on top of. Yeah, it's it's just funny is all. Like, it's it's definitely a funny thing. and And even, I will admit, you know, even with the chocolate piece, it's not, like, it's not just the Mickey ears. It's a very, like, that's a very detailed They made an ugly sweater and chocolate piece. Yeah, like that's what you have on like an ugly sweater, right? like Yeah, and but then like with the Mickey and the Pluto and everything on it too, like it's – there's some effort that's been put into this being as ugly a kid, which I appreciate.
00:54:09
Speaker
i did Some ah effort to make it ugly, which yeah, okay. that's that's the That makes sense. I like it. I like that. If we continue walking on here, we got we got we're going over to Storybook Treats, who does have a a new thing, which is a a reindeer sundae, which I've actually seen people make these desserts ah at home. Like, I've seen this as a thing.
00:54:28
Speaker
And this is chocolate soft serve topped with caramel sauce, pretzels, chocolate, and peanut butter dusted rice cereal, and a reindeer chocolate piece on the top. This not only looks adorable, but it also looks like something I'd want to eat.
00:54:41
Speaker
And this is the first instance I've seen a peanut butter or anything, which kind of makes it a win for me. Surprising. Yeah. i Tom, you you need to try and find the reindeer sundae. I mean, it's at Storybook Treats. I know exactly where to find it. Yeah, no.
00:54:55
Speaker
You need to remember, though, when you're walking, because you're going to be walking around, you're going to overwhelmed by a lot of things. That's fair. you need You need to stop and remember that you need to go and try this because we had a conversation. i i would I would love to go and try this. It looks delicious. It's a cute little tree. It's got an adorable little reindeer on the top. I can see sharing with this with my daughter. i can i can see this happening. So I will try to remember this.
00:55:16
Speaker
All right. All right. So let's ah move on to one. This is the name of the place I was trying to remember before, which is Cosmic Rays. And I have to say Cosmic Rays. You couldn't remember the name of Cosmic Rays? couldn't remember Cosmic Rays, no.
00:55:30
Speaker
but Were you calling it Sunny Eclipses in your head? or No, I just couldn't i couldn't remember the name at all. Like, just nothing. just Just blank. Right? just not I couldn't even think of the name of a quick service. Yeah.
00:55:42
Speaker
But Cosmic Rays, man, like I listen, I know that they don't need to try hard at Cosmic Rays. I get it. But yeah, the snow cheese chicken strips now given this looks good, right? I would eat this and may eat it.
00:55:56
Speaker
It's dusted with a sweet and savory white cheddar powder served with a side of kimchi aioli. But I'm not gonna lie. It looks like they just like took some like ah like Cheetos and just like crushed it down. into they They took Cheeto to put it on chicken strips. Like that's all they did here.
00:56:09
Speaker
You know? Is that wrong, though? No, you know what? It's not because it's probably delicious. It's probably delicious. Yeah. Like, how could it not be? Cheesy chicken strips sounds like a really good idea. And then don't know about you, but i I'm a big fan of kimchi.
00:56:23
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not kimchi. love it. No. See, I love good kimchi, and I'm curious what, like, if they say it's a kimchi aioli, so it's like mayo and kimchi. I don't know if those two things go together, but if it's coming forward with the kimchi flavor, then you've got, like, it's like a sweet and spicy thing that's going on here. So yeah so you've got yeah like sweet and spicy chicken strips, which I don't care. Like, again, the only thing that's festive about this is in the background. There's like a peppermint cane and some. No, it's snow. It's snow. It's gods it's snow on top of the chicken strips. No, no, no, no. You're not going for that? like and I'm not buying it. No, sorry. yeah don't don it Don't tell me it's snow cheese. that This is just, you know you know, these are cheesy chicken strips.
00:57:03
Speaker
Don't care. i hope that, i hope you know, I know that the parties are sometimes a place where they will kind of like rye stuff. And, you know, this is something I would love to see on the regular menu.
00:57:14
Speaker
Yeah, it looks delicious, honestly. Yeah, i would I would love to see something like this because it's kind of hitting all those marks. Like I said, it's, you know, cheesy without... yeah but Because, like, the cheese dust is not, like, that that's not, for me, an issue of, light like, cheese, like, lactose or whatever because it's that powdered stuff, right? So, but, yeah, you know, cheese flavor with, you know, spicy, creamy, like, yeah, give me that. ah that's That's what I want at Cosmic, right?
00:57:41
Speaker
i ah yeah oh I mean, this is what you this is what you expect from Cosmic Graves. They do also have some returning dishes, which they have ah ah because it seems pot roast everything everywhere. Holiday pot roast melt, which actually looks pretty good, honestly.
00:57:54
Speaker
Yeah, it's slow cooked beef on thick toast with cheddar, Swiss cheese, beef gravy and horseradish cream sauce. Okay, yeah. I was looking, I was like, ah it doesn't looks like it might be a little dry, but if it's got the horseradish cream on there, I'm sure. got some take On some Texas toast, some nice butter Texas toast. that would Yeah, okay. And then there's a holiday turkey burger. It has stuffing on it.
00:58:15
Speaker
Swiss cheese, cranberry chutney, and a brioche bun. I'm not going to lie, this looks disgusting to me, Trevor. and i This picture is way too close. It's way too close because i I don't want to see what the turkey burger looks. The turkey burger looks weird. I don't.
00:58:30
Speaker
Okay, that this is going to sound weird, but it almost looks like it's trying to make kissy lips at you.
00:58:38
Speaker
Do you see what I'm saying? Yes, I do see what you're saying. i um You want a turkey burger? Okay, I'm going away from that. I'm creeped out by this. I can't do it anymore. We also have the buckle up boost, which they've had before. What are you you still laughing about this?
00:58:56
Speaker
Sorry, that was too funny. We'll just come back to it. It's just there waiting. It's always going to show up. um yeah The funniest thing you could do is in the future if you just like threw this picture in like just in between. Just randomly? Yeah.
00:59:12
Speaker
Just to creep creep creep myself out? Okay. yeah ah We do have this this Mickey buckle thing. that I mean, a Santa buckle thing. Mickey buckle. But i I'm like so thrown off that.
00:59:25
Speaker
Gingerbread mousse, chocolate cremeux, and flourless chocolate cake with chocolate decor. Basic, but I would eat it. It sounds pretty good. you know had It kind of ticks the Christmassy stuff, but...
00:59:37
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it's just more – I would still go for that the other mousse, the eggnog mousse over that. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. yeah But then we have we do have a new drink here, which is a cranberry cider punch. This is non-alcoholic. It's cranberry juice, apple cider, and Sprite with sugared cranberries and a rosemary sprig. This is a very festive-looking drink.
00:59:58
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, definitely. And, hey, and you know bonus points for non-alcoholic. is yeah You know, I, I know they like their alcoholic drinks, but, know, feel like there should be more stuff that everybody can enjoy.
01:00:09
Speaker
This is something like when, the last time I was there with my son, we like, it was more so an Epcot, but like we were looking, like he was, he wasn't just looking for like the standard, like, you know. you know soda or whatever, right? Like this is this is a like next level thing that you don't find normal. Like the fact that it's party exclusive is, i you know, it's fair, but I like the fact that this is something that like, you know, the whole family can try and you, and you know, maybe i almost kind of want to see what this tastes like. Like I could probably just buy these things and put them together.
01:00:44
Speaker
Yeah, you just have to try to work on the mix and get the portions right. yeah Or I'm just slamming a whole bunch of cranberry juice and... but You could also do that, too. Yeah, could do that, too. You could do that, too.
01:00:57
Speaker
ah Now, also, just right by there, we'll just go a little deeper into Tomorrowland. We'll go over to Antigravity, who has a milk-in cookie shake. Pretty straightforward. Vanilla shake with caramel, holiday cookies, chocolate chip cookie dough topped with ah whipped cream and festive sprinkles. Again, this is only available during the party.
01:01:12
Speaker
um You know, pretty straightforward shake. You threw some cookies and cream. I would have it. I'm not even saying anything bad. I would have it. It's good. that' That's a lot of cookies for a milkshake Nah, you never have good to cookies. There's three different types of cookies in this one milkshake.
01:01:28
Speaker
That's why it's great. That's why it's great. Okay. All right. And then we have a Cherry Cordial Cold Brew. This is returning, and this is also not exclusive, so you can have this at any time. It's Joffrey's Cold Brew with cherry whipped cream, chocolate sauce, chocolate curls. so Just a cold brew with some cherry in there, right?
01:01:44
Speaker
Yeah. and Nothing amazing. And then ah last but not least here, Trevor, we're we're right at the end here. The brand new Astro Fizz, which is, ah you know, if you remember the cool ship, the cool ship is gone.
01:01:56
Speaker
And now we have the Astro Fizz, which is ah is opening right in time for the the party. But and they're coming out strong here with a cherry white chocolate slushie, a Fanta cherry served with a crackable white chocolate coated cup.
01:02:12
Speaker
With ah whipped cream, cherry gummy candy and festive sprinkles. This is probably delicious because cherry and and vanilla and like white chocolate like that, the vanilla e kind of flavor go together so well.
01:02:24
Speaker
And like the whole crackable thing that makes it even more fun, you know? Yeah, it's I was trying to imagine how this would play out like as you're eating it. Because it feels like it would be a hot mess, but I don't know.
01:02:39
Speaker
It's fair. That's fair. That's fair. The last thing that we have to talk about. Oh, good. Sorry. yeah just just good I was just going to say that lot of cherry going on. I don't i don't know. daily like cherries I'm sure it's good. But yeah, I feel like I would pass on it just because there's a lot. of chery that's That's fair. That's fair.
01:02:55
Speaker
Now, typically, Trevor, on Food Time, we only talk food, but we got it we got to talk about this popcorn
Nostalgic and Exclusive Merchandise
01:03:01
Speaker
bucket. this wow i mean this is this popcorn bucket is awesome it's giving the you know like i said earlier about like actually back at the very beginning you know that like old like glass ornament kind of feel to it like this feels like the way it looks is reminds me of like old or yeah you know you like stuff you just find on the coffee table that's like you know like a like a
01:03:26
Speaker
like a molded glass figurine of some sort. It's, and the fact that it's just like a plastic popcorn bucket, it's, uh, yeah, they, they, they put some effort into it. even They did. So it's ah it's an old-style truck ah you know with Mickey driving you know his head out the window.
01:03:42
Speaker
They've got the tree in the back. They've got a Christmas tree in the back that Goofy is trying to hold up, and it's got some lights on it. There's also some lights across the back of the truck as well. And then it looks like Chip and Dale are hanging on to the top of the tree.
01:03:52
Speaker
It looks like Dale's about to throw a pine cone at Goofy. Which, you know... and go yeah yeah you know yeah Actually, that that that is a surprising um thing that they've done there because usually it would be Donald versus Chip and Dale.
01:04:09
Speaker
True. So the fact that they've got Goofy in there is kind kind of an interesting take. you usually don't see that. Yeah. But as soon as I saw this, I knew this was getting purchased. So I i mean. but So that's on your to do list when you're.
01:04:21
Speaker
Oh, yeah, that's that's like definitely one that I think is going to happen. That's that's all I'm going to say about that, because I think that's that one has to happen. Somebody shared it in our Discord, and I immediately was like, I must purchase this.
01:04:33
Speaker
like And they knew it, too, because they said, like, oh, get your wallet ready. I think it was beck is are is Becky, so that she knows she knows the deal, right? but um But Trevor, are we ready to go? We'll head over to Jollywood and do some Jollywood? Yeah, let's go.
01:04:47
Speaker
the The menu at Jollywood, I'm not going to lie. no This is no offense to Magic Kingdom, but there's some really good stuff on the menu at Jollywood. I'm not going lie. mean, I will admit i don't I don't expect a lot from Magic Kingdom. We've we've talked about this. you know, Magic Kingdom, you're there for a Christmas party. the The stuff that they're offering is, you know, there's some good stuff this year. It's just yeah absolutely they don't have to go above and beyond with Right. Whereas Jollywood nights, it Jollywood nights is kind of a weird thing. Like it's another Christmas party, but I feel like it doesn't get nearly as much recognition as,
01:05:22
Speaker
as very Merry Christmas party, or it's more like, maybe it's more for like the hardcore fans. That makes sense. Yeah. i could get It feels like Jollywood nights is like, like very Merry Christmas party is like for all the families and kids. Whereas Jollywood nights is more like, I don't want to say adult centric, but you know, they're definitely targeted to adults. It's targeted adults. I really feel like it is.
01:05:43
Speaker
Yeah. It's so, so yeah, um I would expect that the, the menu at Jollywood nights will be different than what we saw uh, At Very Merry Christmas Party. And I expect that there's to be more divisive stuff on here that, you know, Tom may not necessarily like that. Well, I'm not going to Jollywood, Trevor, so it's not a big deal.
01:06:01
Speaker
But yeah I should mention all of these items are exclusive to the party. So it's a little bit different than Magic Kingdom where some are exclusive, some are not. All of the items we're going talk about here, all exclusive. have to You have to go to Jollywood Knights if you want any of these.
01:06:13
Speaker
Correct. Correct. and And there's a bunch of new ones. so But let's start over, Trevor. we We'll start over on Commissary
Jollywood Nights Adult-Centric Food Options
01:06:20
Speaker
Lane at the ABC Commissary, which is a go-to quick service place for us.
01:06:24
Speaker
I don't know about you, but that's a go-to for us when we're in Hollywood Studios. um But we're going to start. and all the stuff at ABC Commissary... It's not new. So we're going to go through these fairly quick because we like to highlight the new stuff.
01:06:36
Speaker
But I love a barilla taco. So sign me up for a barilla taco any day. Love barilla. Easy tacos. Easy win, right? Yeah. Easy one, right? And they have the cauliflower version. if you Cauliflower version for those plant-based folks.
01:06:52
Speaker
We got empanadas with street corn. Again, that's a delicious option. I love st street corn and I love empanadas. I would i be all about all this. We have ah ah a chicharron, which is a fried pork belly that they've got going on here with, you know, some stuff in there. That looks pretty good.
01:07:10
Speaker
that lime with taijin on it, it looks like? ah I don't see the taijin noted here, but it looks like does. They've got some kind spice on them. It says chili lime seasoning. It's not specific, though. Okay, yeah.
01:07:23
Speaker
Then they have what they call a Taco Bout holiday cookie, which is a cranberry cheesecake filled. Yeah, it's like a Choco. Anybody remember Choco Choco? Yeah, it looks like a Choco Taco, but it's a cookie sandwich kind of thing. It looks delicious. I would eat this in a heartbeat, right?
01:07:39
Speaker
and And this has got like cranberry white chocolate. I mean, there's some good stuff in here. Yeah. And then ah Mexican hot cocoa cheesecake. Now, this is, you know, not new again, too, but this looks really good. I would eat this, too.
01:07:53
Speaker
you It looks like a drink. i When I first saw it, I thought it was a drink, but it's clearly not a drink. I thought it was, too. No, it's not. It's not. All right. Yeah. mean, the fact that they're like serving in a mug is. Yeah. Yeah.
01:08:05
Speaker
Because it looks like a drink. They're trying to do a thing. Right. ah So that's nothing new over there. Right. There's nothing new over there. But oh regardless of whether they're being new stuff or not, and it looks like all solid options. Right.
01:08:16
Speaker
Yeah. Like, I'd have a hard time picking what to eat if I went there. Like, I want the burrito taco. I want the empanadas. They're clearly going for, like, a a Mexican flair here over at ah at ah and ABC Commissary. so ah So, but let's go to Backlot Express, Trevor, because Backlot Express does have something new.
01:08:31
Speaker
All right. And and that is ah that is a Hickory Holiday Mac and Cheese. Macaroni and cheese with burnt ends, crispy onions, and chili pepper sauce. I love everything about this.
01:08:44
Speaker
This mac and cheese looks delicious, first of all. Like, it looks super cheesy. ah love a burnt end. Yeah, you get the burnt ends with it. and then And then the chili pepper sauce. Yeah. Hmm.
01:08:54
Speaker
Interesting. This looks delicious to me. I would tear through this. And I know for you, macaroni and cheese. I'm on the fence. But, yeah I mean, i'm I'm definitely considering it. but That's what else is. You know, the fact that I'm even considering it is, you know. It's a big deal. You're right. It looks really good.
01:09:09
Speaker
It does. It looks like good mac and cheese. I mean, like, and it looks like homemade, you know, really. Not that. I mean, listen, Disney has varying degrees of mac and cheese depending where you go. Right. This looks like a really good one. This isn't KD. This is proper mac and cheese. There you go. And then we have another new item, which is the Jolly Jam Slider, which is an Angus burger with bourbon garlic bacon jam.
01:09:32
Speaker
Bourbon, garlic, bacon, jam. I have to say that slowly. Smoky paprika aioli and chili pepper sauce served on a Hawaiian roll.
01:09:43
Speaker
This also looks delicious. And I don't eat really eat red meat, but I might think about eating this because it looks so delicious. I'm just, okay, paprika, bacon jam, chili.
01:09:54
Speaker
That's a lot. and then And then on a Hawaiian roll, like. Yeah, yeah. I mean, thats that's a lot of sweet. Again, sweet and spicy going on. I guess I can't be mad. if it If it's sweet and spicy, I'm sure it's it's good.
01:10:06
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just looking at it. It's like, wow, that's that's a lot of different things going on that that but on that boat. There is, for sure. We also have a new another new item. This is a plant-based item, clearly, because it is the Sleigh Bell Brussels Sprouts. Now, don't know about you, Trevor.
01:10:21
Speaker
I love Brussels Sprouts if they're done right. And you don't really see Brussels Sprouts coming from a quick service, which is interesting. But it's bourbon, onion, jam, and crispy onions. Very simple, straightforward.
01:10:32
Speaker
Looks delicious to me. yeah You know, Brussels sprouts, I feel, gets a bad rap. but Yeah, I agree. I know when we were growing up that, you know, it was kind of true. It's like, oh, don't eat Brussels sprouts. Yeah. They're perfectly fine.
01:10:44
Speaker
There's nothing wrong Brussels sprouts. I really like Brussels sprouts if they're done right. And, again, bourbon onion jam on them, just like, you're if you're worried about tasting them, I feel like you're not going to taste much of the Brussels sprout because that jam is going to come through.
01:10:58
Speaker
Absolutely. Absolutely. We also have a sweet chili cheer chicken slider, which is chicken thighs tossed in a sweet chili aioli topped with an Asian slaw and cilantro served on a brioche roll.
01:11:10
Speaker
This also looks delicious. Yeah, it kind of reminds me of a banh mi. I think that's what they're going for is a banh mi, right? That's what they're going for. Without saying it's a banh Well, because, yeah, you've got it.
01:11:21
Speaker
It's because of the sweet chili aioli, I feel that it's they they don't want to. call it But yeah, it's, yeah, it's given, it's given definitely a, like a, just like a chicken bond meat kind thing, which yeah, for a slider, perfectly good.
01:11:33
Speaker
Yeah. And then you also have this Holly Jolly bread pudding, which I'm not a huge bread pudding fan, Trevor, but this is warm bread pudding swirled with chocolate hazelnut spread, topped with cherries, holiday sprinkles, and chocolate gingerbread man.
01:11:46
Speaker
Everything that's in there, I want to eat, right? The cherries, the chocolate hazelnut spread. We all know what they're talking about when they say chocolate hazelnut spread. ah But we all know who we're talking about.
01:11:57
Speaker
We don't even need to say it out loud. ah Topped with cherries, holiday sprinkles, and and a little adorable chocolate gingerbread man. that is ah That is a dessert I would absolutely grab. Yeah. um Again, my – sorry. Cherries just cheries i don't do anything for me. I don't – I just don't like cherries. I don't know.
01:12:14
Speaker
but So, again, like 90% of this is fine. I would just eat around the cherries. Yeah. I mean, that's fair. I get it. I get it. And then to top it all off, we have a figgy pudding martini, which is a ah Mediterranean fig flavored vodka.
01:12:29
Speaker
I didn't know they had fig flavored vodkas, but apparently they do. Fig jam, agave, half and half, ah ginger beer and allspice garnished with nutmeg. That sounds like a crazy martini. That's a lot.
01:12:43
Speaker
Yeah. is Is that really a martini? I don't even know what it is. There's a lot of stuff in there. I'm looking at this. They're saying it's a martini. It looks like pudding. They're saying figgy pudding. It looks like a cup of pudding more than a martini. It does. Yeah, it does.
01:13:00
Speaker
Yeah, you're right. You're right about that. Listen, some good options over here at Backlot Express. again i mean this is like Backlot is not a place that's a go-to for us. i mean They do fine food, but ABC is little bit of a step up you know And I feel like just positioning-wise, I always forget the backlot's there.
01:13:19
Speaker
it's it Yeah, it's a weird spot. It's a weird spot. So what have they got, though, that we're going to miss out on? Oh, no, that was it. That was though that was that was. Oh, you got it. Yeah.
01:13:29
Speaker
Because now we're going to go baseline tap tap house, which is, ah you know, that little hidden gem that's over there on Grand Avenue. and They don't have anything new, though. They have macaroni and cheese croquettes, which, listen, I'm not going to like sneeze at this because i would eat these i like in a heartbeat.
01:13:44
Speaker
They look delicious. They also have a beer margarita, which, you know, is a uh tequila and some liqueur and some lime juice i guess it you know and then it has the uh and it has a pilsner that goes with it so you know you get the glass because the glass looks more the glass is awesome but you don't get the glass now of course not why would you but we're gonna go to one of my personal favorite things which is nearby trevor after this uh which is we're gonna go over and say hello to gertie uh over in echo lake i I did see this.
01:14:14
Speaker
I saw this early. I quickly browsed through this. I was wondering when this was to come up. So what what are they offering for a Gertie? it's just a It's just a sugar cookie with a Santa hat. There's nothing special about There's nothing else to It's just a Gertie-shaped cookie. I will not have you besmirch the good name of of of Gertie on this on this podcast. Okay.
01:14:37
Speaker
I love Gertie. Gertie is a is they I've talked about this before. If they ever get rid of Gertie, Gertie is one of my lines that I can't cross. I don't know why it just is. Gertie is like one of my first childhood memories from Disney. And it's it's just a thing that if they ever got rid of it, I would be very disappointed. and the the The weird thing for me, I think I've said this before, is Gertie is just one of me.
01:14:59
Speaker
dinosaurs that I'm like, Gertie looks like so many other dinosaur figurines that I know, like where I live, like literally I can go to the zoo or I can go to Drumheller and there's dinosaurs that look like Gertie like everywhere.
01:15:15
Speaker
So it's like, so, so Gertie is kind of like Whatever. Whatever, Trevor. I know you're you're you're like, how dare you? But it's like, ah it just, I don't know. It just kind of looks like any other. We're going to move to Dockside Diner then. Okay. i Enjoy your cookie, Tom.
01:15:30
Speaker
yeah I'm not going even eat it because I'm not going to Jollywood. But. Dockside Diner right over there. They don't have anything new either. They got some loaded samosas that looked, you know, that look pretty good, actually. ah You know, their potato and pea stuffed samosas and some curry chickpeas and a crema and some sort of ah tomato pomegranate chutney.
01:15:49
Speaker
lot of stuff going on there. But there's also a meatball and a polenta. Look at this giant meatball, Trevor. I remember talking about this last year. Is it really that like, or I guess look i'm I'm curious how big that plate is. Cause like that could be like, like a, like ah big chunk of meat. Well, I mean, in the description though, they're calling it a giant meatball. So, I mean, i mean, yeah, I guess what qualifies as a giant meatball.
01:16:12
Speaker
yeah Yeah, that's that's that's a fair that's ah that's a fair thing to say. We also have, I remember this as well, the Christmas tree cookie stack, which is a vanilla cookie stacked with pistachio, buttercream, cranberry, and raspberry jam, topped with sprinkles and a yellow candy star.
01:16:26
Speaker
Looks like a little you know just like a little tree ah made out of some stacked up cookies. Again, nothing very this is very festive, though, I will say. This is not a new thing, though. Yeah, and because it's pistachio, you're not doing No, definitely not.
01:16:38
Speaker
um But we do have a new ah new beverage over here, which is, well, this is ah this is a hot cocoa. This is not the new beverage. This is the hot cocoa with just some cherry whipped cream on top for some reason. and But the new beverage is a Stroopwafel bourbon coffee.
01:16:55
Speaker
So this is Kentucky straight bourbon. So this is alcoholic. Salted caramel syrup, half and half, cold brew coffee, and caramel sauce ah garnished with crushed waffle.
01:17:06
Speaker
I am a huge Stroopwafel fan. I love Stroopwafels. Stroopwafel's delicious. so ah Yeah, I love it. If you haven't a Stroopwafel before, go get a Stroopwafel because they're delicious. so um So the fact that they put some Stroopwafel stuff in here is great. I don't drink coffee, though, so this kind of puts me out.
01:17:21
Speaker
But, I mean, if I were going to drink a coffee, it would be a Stroopwafel coffee. Right. Yeah. I feel like offering coffee or I guess maybe it's just me. like Like, you know, I don't drink coffee a lot either. But then further to that is like if I'm going to an after hours party or a nighttime party, I'm not getting coffee either.
01:17:38
Speaker
Like coffee is like you don't need to stay up, though. Like, you know, it no, I don't like I don't i don't want coffee because it it means that I won't go to sleep when I actually do want to go to sleep. So that's fair.
01:17:49
Speaker
Yeah. Also, also around Echo Lake, we have Epic Eats, which again, does not have anything, anything new here. So we're just going to, you know, a s'mores funnel cake, which if i'm not going to lie, Trevor, in this picture that that marshmallow looks a little too far for me.
01:18:02
Speaker
I like my marshmallow golden brown. I don't like it burnt. Yeah, I don't it burnt. You don't like crispy? No, I like it. I like it golden brown. i don't want to. If it starts turning in black, then it starts to taste like burnt, you know, like it takes the burning taste. I don't want that. I want I want golden brown. I want a little crisp, but, you know, not the the burn taste. So but right you got a little mini funnel cake here with a with, you know, a huge roast of marshmallow on the top. It's toasted chocolate, marshmallow sauce, chocolate curl, cinnamon cereal.
01:18:30
Speaker
Nothing really new here. ah But you also have a spicy Korean ah chicken funnel cake, which is literally a mini funnel cake topped with spicy Korean fried chicken and pickled slaw.
01:18:41
Speaker
A for effort on that one. I don't know what's holidays about that, but it's, you know. Yeah. Okay. i'm i'm I'm trying to, I guess chicken and waffles is the. Yeah, it's like chicken and waffles. Yeah.
01:18:52
Speaker
Yeah. I was just, I was immediately like funnel cake with chicken. What? Like, like okay. Yeah, I guess. Thought about it for a second and I might come around on this, but again, nothing. You're right. that This could be sold anytime of year. I don't know why it has to be at the, ah at the party.
01:19:08
Speaker
Yeah. i don't I don't know why either. There isn't also they have a warm spice chai cocktail. You know, if that's something you want, you know, have one of those. Do you drink chai or no? I do. Actually, I do. i really I like ah the the only thing I will get from Starbucks is a chai latte, a nice chai latte.
01:19:24
Speaker
All right. Yeah. Okay. Fair. But if we go over now, Trevor, to Fairfax Fair over on Sunset Boulevard, also not a lot of new things. However, there's this holiday turkey popover, which is roasted turkey, creamy mashed potatoes, topped with gravy and cranberry sauce and a house made popover.
01:19:38
Speaker
I would tear into this minus the cranberry. Not a huge cranberry fan. What? What's a popover? it's just like a roll, right? It's like a... Okay, I'm sorry. I've never heard the term before. Maybe maybe you know us Canadian folk don't know what popover... I mean, and I don't really know either. I'm not really familiar with it. I mean, it just looks like a roll, basically.
01:20:01
Speaker
Yeah, I was going to say, just looks like it's all stuffed in a bun of some sort. But I would this, though. Sounds good. But more than that, I would actually get this Just the Sides popover, which is macaroni and cheese, collard greens topped with cornbread crumbs, and a house-made popover. That sounds delicious, too.
01:20:17
Speaker
Yeah. Honestly, it looks better than the other one. I would agree. it looks like it looks more it looks looks more portable than the other one. Like, the other one looks like a hot mess. This, like, feels like you could eat this without making Yeah, you could pick this up and just, like, eat it almost like a sandwich. Yeah. Yeah.
01:20:32
Speaker
But they do have one new item that's a dessert item, Trevor, and that's a raspberry lemon square. it is a lemon filling topped with a raspberry powdered sugar and glazed raspberries. Very simple looking dish, but I do feel like it's a little festive. I don't know why. it just feels festive. but Lemon squares are very festive for us around here. like ok we don't We don't have lemon squares unless it's around the holidays. And then raspberry with lemon squares to me sounds even better. Like I i love a good lemon square. So yeah, this would be this would be on my to-get list.
01:21:02
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. And now, Trevor, to the thing that you were asking about, eggnog. Look at that. There's some eggnog. right. with all the Traditional eggnog. Yeah, with some caramel in there. They just threw some caramel.
01:21:14
Speaker
You can also, by the way, get a alcoholic version that they put fireball in, which, I mean, I'm not a huge eggnog fan, but I might be with fireball. Really?
01:21:26
Speaker
Uh, okay. I thought it was rum and eggnog. I mean... Fireball's ah fireball is a choice. Fireball, I mean the spiciness of the fireball, I feel like, I don't know, I feel like it would work. Okay, like I guess. I don't know.
01:21:38
Speaker
ah It's a choice. Yeah. It is a choice. It is a choice. It is a choice. i agree yeah i'm I'm just saying, you know, ah that would not be anything that I would want to try. That's fair.
01:21:51
Speaker
That's fair. There is also a mistletoe martini. Again, this is just like a cranberry juice martini, basically. So we don't need to get too much into this as a returning thing. I do want to talk about this next thing, though, Trevor, because I i think this is a ah really cool one.
01:22:04
Speaker
ah And these are souvenir glasses, by the way. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. So you got two different items here. And I only have one thing across the bottom describing one of them, but they are two different things.
01:22:15
Speaker
So we have the Kermit Mint Whirl. And so this is a Kermit and Miss Piggy ah souvenir glass, or, you know, I don't know if it's a glass or. it's like an old school tumbler is what it looks like. Yeah.
01:22:27
Speaker
Yeah. And so the Carmet one has green apple boba pearls, white chocolate cheesecake topped with mint chocolate chip chip ice cream and green M&M's milk chocolate candies. The Miss Piggy version has strawberry boba pearls and a strawberry cheesecake topped with chocolate pearl strawberry ice cream and pink M&M's. So you're either getting this in strawberry or mint flavor.
01:22:49
Speaker
So I guess. Yeah. Yeah. which Which would I want more? See, I would want the mint. Mint You would want mint? Yeah, mint reminds me of Christmas more, you know? Yeah. know. Yeah. I mean mean, but I get to, like, like you know, mint not everybody goes for mint, I guess. like Like, even even in my household, like, I'm always, like, after, like, mint chocolates and with stuff.
01:23:11
Speaker
Nobody else in my family wants anything to do with it. So the fact that they're offering this as two different versions of the same thing, so you can kind of pick what you want. Yeah. um Great idea. And then, yeah, you know, the fact that it's Kermit and Miss Piggy is just, you know, and spot on.
01:23:25
Speaker
Makes it awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It looks fantastic. It does. It does. Yeah. They also have this Yuletide scoop here, which is vanilla ice cream with Kahlua coffee liqueur and Stoli vanilla vodka topped whipped cream and a cherry.
01:23:39
Speaker
I mean, I mean, man it doesn't do anything. Yeah. Doesn't. Yeah. it Doesn't look interesting at all. Yeah, I would agree with that. But if we make our way over on Grand Avenue to ice cold hydraulics, we do have some gingerbread bites, which are a returning item. that We had these last year.
01:23:56
Speaker
um But they do have a new item over there, which is the Jolly Gingerbread Mini Churros, which are gingerbread churros with chocolate hazelnut sauce and holiday sprinkles. Similar to Pecos Bill.
01:24:06
Speaker
Yeah, I was going to say, wait, are these not the same gingerbread churros they had at Pecos Bill's? I mean, they could be. I mean, they have the chocolate hazelnut sauce on top, though, so they at least mixed it up a little bit.
01:24:20
Speaker
Yeah, they added little bit of difference to it, which, okay, fine. I mean, yeah, you're right. I mean, churros are churros. Yeah, churros are always delicious. There's also a mint chocolate cold brew. So if you like cold brew and you like mint...
01:24:31
Speaker
Look at that. You can get that. ah You can also get it with rum, too, because it wouldn't be wouldn't be a Jollywood night without some some alcohol there, too. So you can also get some some rum as well if if you want this exact same thing.
01:24:44
Speaker
so But moving on here, we're going over to
Classic and New Holiday Drink Options
01:24:46
Speaker
the Brown Derby. And I'm going to mention again with the Brown Derby, derby similar to Magic Kingdom. If you don't have a reservation, you're probably not getting one. Have ever eaten at the Brown Derby, Trevor?
01:24:56
Speaker
I have not actually eaten at Brown Derby. I like Brown Derby. we We went there once. It was very loud, but it was it was it was very good. we had We had very good food. But unfortunately, nothing nothing new at the Brown Derby this year, but we is we have the jazzy holidays here. We have a charcuterie board, which, you know, listen, charcuterie board, always always a good welcome thing, right?
01:25:15
Speaker
um But chorizo arancini, I love arancini. I love, ah you know, they're like the little rice fried rice balls with some parmesan on top and some sauce. Oh, Always love that.
01:25:26
Speaker
Delicious. I don't know what hamachi Do you know what that is? Hamachi? I'm not familiar with that. I've heard the term before.
01:25:37
Speaker
I'm trying to think what all is in hamachi. I guess we can find out. I'm sure we probably could. Hamachi a although the i mean you know so um hammachi is a Oh, okay. Well, that makes sense. so So it's like, yeah, it's... Because this looks like a really thin cut fish is what it looks like, right? Yeah, it's a yellowtail fish.
01:25:56
Speaker
and Okay, okay. So yeah, it's just it's just sliced fish on a plate. Yeah, we also got some jazzy sliders, which are bison and pork sliders. Okay. There's a pork belly bough. Okay. It's a green barbecue.
01:26:08
Speaker
Yeah. I love a good bough. Some straight up shrimp cocktail, which, you know, okay. Holidays. All right. Yeah. Got some chicken wings. and nothing Nothing amazing there.
01:26:20
Speaker
No, not really. Like you said, this this is all returning stuff. Yeah. Yeah. There's a tofu bao. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I guess we can't expect them to, you know, re reinvent the menu. Listen, half the menu here is new. We just haven't hit a lot of it yet. So, you know, there's there's a fair amount of it.
01:26:36
Speaker
There are also a bunch of beverages, Trevor. We don't need to go through all these beverages. Most of these are the same, right? These are not ah new things. So we're, you know, and then in the interest of time, we're we're going to go through these, you know, just here.
01:26:47
Speaker
I will say I really like this Brown Derby one that has the piece of ice that has the Brown Derby ah in it, right? Like the the name, the Brown Derby is in it. That's pretty cool. um But, you know, for the most part, these are just kind of like regular drinks, right?
01:27:02
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Now there is a salted caramel hot chocolate here, which, okay. ah Yeah. I mean, so sorry. I don't see where, like, I mean, it's hot chocolate, I guess. Yeah. Yeah.
01:27:14
Speaker
Yeah. It's fine. It's fine. Nothing amazing about salted caramel and hot chocolate. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. But we should probably make our way, though, over to Rockin' Roller Coaster, to KRNR, the rock station over on Sunset Boulevard. They do have some new dishes.
01:27:29
Speaker
Okay, what do we got? Let's see here. We got Arepas de Choclo? Choclo? Choclo, yeah, I guess, yeah. I love a good arepa, sweet corn cake with cheese topped with cilantro aioli and served with jicama slaw.
01:27:44
Speaker
So this kind of just looks like it's a it's a, I mean, you know, arepas they've gotten in the past usually have a meat in them of some sort. but Yeah, this is like a grilled cheese sandwich using arepas. Yeah. Yeah.
01:27:55
Speaker
Basically a Mexican grilled cheese sandwich. yeah think shes Right. Yeah. yeah All right. i'm Good. Not going to say no to that. um We also have a churro Sunday, which is churros topped with vanilla sauce or spiced apples and a spiced chocolate sauce.
01:28:09
Speaker
I mean, nothing super crazy, but I would eat it, you know? Yeah. Yeah. it's Again, it's not... The churros look very small, like even compared to like the churro bites. Like I don't... I wonder... my My issue with churros is that sometimes they get... They can dry out, right?
01:28:29
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Well, if they dry out, they're very... They're not fun to eat. I would be worried that this would be just like eating a bunch of... dick along with yeah when you go along with some apple.
01:28:41
Speaker
You got the compote and the ice cream, though. like that would you know That would get it going. okay Yeah, I guess. They do also have, for you drinkers out there, a spiced apple sangria, which you know has some fireball cinnamon whiskey in there and you know a bunch of other stuff, some red wine, apple cider, orange juice, lemon lime, with a starfruit chip on the top.
01:29:00
Speaker
That's a nice-looking sangria, if you want a sangria. Yeah. But they also have a white cranberry margarita, tequila, Grand Marnier, white cranberry juice, ah lime juice, and a simple syrup with a sugar rim and cranberries. Again, nice looking drink, right? If you're in the in in the place for a drink, right?
01:29:18
Speaker
But that's really it for this KRNR, the rock station, right? So we we got to move over to the animation courtyard now, Trevor, because that's where it is. Because I was going to say, I'm not exactly hanging up at rock and roller coaster No, it's just it's it's true.
01:29:32
Speaker
So we do have some buffalo chicken spring rolls that are returning with some ranch sauce. Yeah. Can't go wrong with buffalo chicken spring rolls, right? i mean, the easy win there. Easy win. I think the highlight here, though, is this new item that's coming next here, which is the Mike Aroon.
01:29:50
Speaker
so So it's called the Mike Aroon. It looks like Mike Wazowski. You did this wrong, Tom. What you mean? yeah so So for this particular image, you should have had the The text at the bottom should have been covering Mike's face.
01:30:05
Speaker
i You know. Missed opportunity. It would have been funny. But I also wanted people to see this beautiful looking cookie. ah Yeah, fair. Because it is a nice looking cookie. It's a toasted coconut cookie with green white chocolate and topped with a sugar eye.
01:30:21
Speaker
So it's nice looking cookie, man. I like it. It's fun. would you I know you're not a big fan of coconut. Would you give this a try or? I would give it a try. I give it a try.
01:30:32
Speaker
Because i like I like a good coconut cookie as well. Yeah. You know, toasted coconut. You know, one of the only places I'll eat coconut, Trevor, is in Girl Scout cookies. that That coconut one they have. I forget what it's called.
01:30:42
Speaker
That one is like my favorite Girl Scout cookie. And it's funny because I hate coconut. But that's like the one place I'll have it. And so and this doesn't look too. I mean, it's different. But I mean, it's toasted coconut. And I think I could deal with toasted coconut. So.
01:30:53
Speaker
Right. But the thing that besides this one that got me was the Bing Bong candy lemonade. And all I could think of was this was my kids. It's 830. My kids dragging. um We need to get them going here.
01:31:06
Speaker
like Frozen strawberry lemonade slushy and butterfly pea flower tea topped with pink cotton candy and freeze dried candy. I the sugar. i don't ah they don't give us nutrition facts here, but the sugar level of this has to be.
01:31:22
Speaker
ah That's a lot of on top of that. Multiple times of your daily mouth. On top of this rubber and lemonade. Yeah. But have you ever had, those look like freeze-dried Skittles. Have you ever had freeze-dried Skittles? are freeze-dried.
01:31:32
Speaker
Yeah, have. They're good, yeah. Especially i hope they're the sour Skittles. Like those would be, best this be really good um'm pretty sure Bing Bong himself drank this that he would have made it to the moon with ah with Riley so um like that's I mean sugar power sugar power to the moon man like there's an insane amount of sugar in this Uh, so, but listen, i it's it looks cool. I love it again. Not really Christmassy, but who cares?
01:32:02
Speaker
Um, then we also have a caramel apple cider, which is, uh, where there's original caramel apple cider. It's funny how they list the caramel first.
01:32:13
Speaker
It looks very thick for, uh, an apple cider and caramel, by the way, like it looks, it looks like a very thick drink. Yeah. And it has, uh, and also has where there's original popcorn on the top. Again, it's a non-alcoholic beverage, but you know if you're feeling crazy, you can throw some moonshine in there too if you want. I was going to say, that the description says smoky apple pie moonshine, which i don't know what but I don't know what qualifies as a moonshine, I guess. There's a specific qualification to it. um I've had real moonshine, Trevor. that's that's a real
01:32:44
Speaker
I've had real moonshine before. The moonshine you're going to get at Disney is going to be like a commercial moonshine, which is not really like a legit, you know, in my mind. but not It's not going to burn the back of your throat. yeah it If someone didn't make it under the threat of being, you know, raided by police, like, then it's not a real legit.
01:33:04
Speaker
Someone didn't make it in the middle of the woods yeah with a, you know, a rinky-dink, like, ah still or something, it's not real legit. Yeah, it still didn't have the risk of blowing up. It's not that proper.
01:33:15
Speaker
Exactly, 100%. That's 100% true. that's that's a hundred percent sure So interesting choice of alcohol there. It is. moving But it probably is good, though, because apple pie moonshine is good. I mean, that that is a good a good choice for this. So, OK, first of all, Trevor, what in the world is Pretzelpalooza? It's been a little while since I've been to Hollywood Studios, but I don't remember a place called Pretzelpalooza on Sunset Boulevard.
01:33:40
Speaker
Maybe I'm just not remembering names of things, but yeah. I'll admit, I have a hard time keeping track of stuff in a lot of the studios. It's kind of, yeah Because it's not it's not laid out nicely like Magic Kingdom, right? It's yeah sometimes hard to remember where things are.
01:33:55
Speaker
But Pretzelpalooza has ah something called a guava and cream cheese casito, which is a cream cheese and guava baked in a flaky puff pastry.
01:34:06
Speaker
This looks delicious. Mm-hmm. Yeah. she's in gu I mean, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Looks good. Good. Or I guess, yeah, maybe maybe that's festive for somebody. I don't know.
01:34:16
Speaker
But not for you. but It's not giving super festive. It's just, again, you know, good good dessert. Yeah. We also have ah over at the Trolley Car Cafe, which is a place I do know.
01:34:28
Speaker
ah And this is not a new item. This was here last year, although I don't remember it. The Duffy Brownie, which ah it looks like Duffy's foot. ah That makes sense. I was like, it looks like a bear paw. I was trying to figure out who it was. But yeah.
01:34:41
Speaker
Yeah, it's Duffy. Chocolate Brownie cherries, white chocolate chips decorated with fudge buttercream and topped with caramel chocolate Duffy paw print. I would tear into this with my hands. Like, this is everything I want. yeah all you I would eat this like an animal, Trevor.
01:34:58
Speaker
Like, that's i this would be, I mean, yeah this sounds delicious. Everything I want in a dessert is in this thing right here. Brownie, cherries, white chocolate, fudge. and mean, i don't care about the Duffy part, but, like you know.
01:35:12
Speaker
Yeah, all right. All right. Okay, what else we got? We just got some beverages here now. We're not going go through the beverages, but there's ah there's there's one that has a pickle for some reason. ah a winter spice Long Island iced tea. um I am a sucker for a Long Island. I would have probably have this.
01:35:29
Speaker
You know, sounds pretty good. um But we're going to kind of skip through these and go over to the Tip Top Club ah for the Twilight Soiree over on Hollywood Boulevard. Again, not really new items here. Sparkling pomegranate apple cider.
01:35:43
Speaker
ah there's ah there's this sparkling drink here that's you know in a nice little souvenir champagne flute. It doesn't list it, but ah ah well you know and maybe it doesn't have... but I've noticed Disney lately has been adding like the edible spark like the edible glitter to some of their drinks, and I i hate it. i hate it so much.
01:36:03
Speaker
when i was on that When I was on The Treasure, they had a couple drinks, had that, had that and I was like, oh, no, no, no, it says Splash of Shimmer. It does say it. Okay. For the top floor daiquiri. darn. But yeah, that's the top floor daiquiri. You got the, you got a really nice little ah kind of champagne flute here. So um yeah, I mean, you know, again, more drinks. There's a lot of drinks, you know, and hang and had we said that about Jollywood is, yeah, you know, it's more, it's more adult focused, which means, yeah, they're offering a lot more alcoholic drinks to people. Right.
01:36:34
Speaker
Yeah. And I mean, speaking of drinks, we also have over at, ah you know, throughout the park, there's a gingerbread whiskey mule. So, you know, you got this little gingerbread pieces, I guess, like a garnish. um Interesting, though, Trevor, this blue sparkling cider is passholder exclusive.
01:36:51
Speaker
So you cannot get this unless you are a passholder. whoa yeah Whoa. Yeah. That's an interesting choice. It is. I mean, I guess it is, you know, it is a way to entice passholders to come as you argue.
01:37:04
Speaker
exclusive But it's weird to just have it as one drink, I guess, you know? Yeah. Withhold one drink, which honestly, you know, for all the other drinks that they have here, this one is not looking anything amazing.
01:37:15
Speaker
You know? Yeah. Cranberry juice, guava, blue crackle, lime. Yeah. It's, don't know. It doesn't seem like anything amazing. Yeah. No, it's just, yeah. I mean, it's just a, you know, it's just a sparkling cider, right?
01:37:29
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Now, Trevor, I'm sorry to do this, too, and I'm sorry to trigger you, but ah there are some popcorn buckets. I know about this popcorn bucket already. I believe they had this one last year. I don't believe it's a new one, but they do have this this Jack Skellington popcorn bucket.
01:37:44
Speaker
And they also have this... they also have this ah This other popcorn as Halloween Town. The mayor of Halloween Town as well. Yep. ah Listen, I think they're solid popcorn buckets for what they are, but I know how you feel about Nightmare Before Christmas. So, ah you know, I just, it's fine. Like, I get people like their Nightmare Before Christmas. And again, I guess this is weird.
01:38:06
Speaker
Are they giving, are they doing this during the the Christmas party? Or, like, because this is more Halloween to me. I don't i don't see why this is on the Christmas party.
01:38:18
Speaker
don't know stuff. Yeah. It doesn't really make any sense. Does it? Yeah. Right. But, but again, I like nightmare before Christmas. that This is the problem with it is that it overlaps both of them. And it just, I don't know.
01:38:31
Speaker
It doesn't like, I mean, I guess it's, you know, a way that they can sell it for half a year. That's kind of my problem with the whole thing is that it's like, it doesn't need to drag between Halloween and Christmas. Like it, it doesn't feel like it's one or the other.
01:38:44
Speaker
Yeah, no, I would agree. It's it's kind of's it's kind of a weird weird way to do that. So, yeah, I totally agree. I guess if you if you're really wanting a Jack Skellington popcorn bucket or a... I mean, the the mayor character is kind of a weird pull, too, I feel.
01:39:01
Speaker
like i would agree. Yeah, I would agree. yeah And is that is that a popcorn bucket or is that a... No, that's a sipper. That's a sipper. Yeah, that's a sipper. That's a sipper. Yeah. I don't know.
01:39:11
Speaker
All right. Well, i listen, yeah I think on that note. Weird note to end on. I think on that note, we can end food time here and and and and move on with our lives. I'm just kidding.
01:39:23
Speaker
No, I think we it was great to to do food time again and also just to you know do food time with holiday foods. with with holiday foods And two two different things back to back. I mean, we haven't, I don't think we've done that in a while where we've had like two different food time events to to kind of cover at the same time. So that was interesting. It was, there was a lot more than I thought there was going to be at um at Magic Kingdom.
01:39:52
Speaker
Yeah. Like I guess I didn't expect so many party exclusives this year. There were a lot of part of party exclusives for sure. Yeah. yeah A lot of party exclusives. So yeah. right. Well, thank you for joining us on Food Time. We'll ah we'll talk to you next time we got some food.
01:40:08
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