7 months and we back,again : 14 days of gluttony & grub: PLETHORA O' PICS 12/1/23-12/14/23 NEW NEW!!

[primalJ]

POPCORN BUCKET (FREE)
My wife scours a Facebook group called DVC free-cycle.
When people are checking out if they have extra things they leave it for other DVC members.

So early in the trip when we were at Saratoga someone was leaving a whole bunch of stuff and one of the things that we could use was the popcorn bucket. So after I cleaned it we kept it with us and refilled it 3 different times during the trip. They only charge $2.25 per refill, so awesome.



Something about Disney world popcorn just hits right,
but the maple one in Canada is more fantastical.
We will bring it with us on future trips.

 

[primalJ]

POP CENTURY EVERYTHING POP


While on the hunt for holiday treats we came across this cupcake.
It was decent but not worth it for almost $6. If you charge this much
for a cupcake at least make them more grand. We were hoping they
still had the awesome pot roast, but sadness happened when we did not
see it.....
Here is a picture from when they did so you can also weep
for it's departure. (Jan 2022)

 

[primalJ]

PONGU PONGU
Since they now serve breakfast and we happened to be at Animal Kingdom
early enough we had to try it.






The stuffed pancake was just meh, some odd
bastardized Frankensteinish breakfast food that you would find in any Walmart freezer.
But we couldn't just try that, we had to have our delicious
night blossom and lumpia to go along with it. So not all was lost.
That breakfast pancake was a one and done. It even looks like something is in
a mid birthing...

 

[primalJ]

SARATOGA SPRINGS
PADDOCK GRILL


Having never trying anything from Paddock Grill and we were swimming
we figured lets get the fresh chicken sandwich. Not bad tasting but wayyyyy
to small for that price.

 

[ThreeBoyMama]

Bring on the pickles!

 

[primalJ]

Bring on the pickles!

I have the pickles!!!

 

[primalJ]

KRINGLA BAKERY


It's not a trip unless one of these beauties goes inside us.
Always perfect and scrumptious. I really got to try it with ice cream on
it one of these times.

 

[primalJ]

MOONLIGHT MAGIC (ANIMAL KINGDOM)
Everything you see was free.








Never had these before, tasty but if this is the regular serving
not worth what they charge.
We liked them so much we got it again (not shown)




this was great, looked pretty and tastes wonderful.
Would buy it next time.


goes down smoother when the cost is ZERO!!


Who doesn't love warm sweet salty nuts in their mouths. I do!
You gotta be nuts if you don't like these.


They're even better when it's all you can eat and FREE!!!


still great onion rings. Just don't wear them on your fingers when they
just come out of the fryer...

This was our 3rd Moonlight magic in a row. Last 3 trips we been lucking out.
Plus they give you 2 game vouchers and we won dinos for our grandson.
He will love them.

 

[BroadwayHermione5]

My mouth is watering (and admittedly I got worried about rodeo roundup but happy to see it’s still good-one of our faves our most recent trip!)

 

[primalJ]

My mouth is watering (and admittedly I got worried about rodeo roundup but happy to see it’s still good-one of our faves our most recent trip!)

Grab a bib it's gonna keep watering, got over 100 pics still to come.

 

[primalJ]

MARA





the innards

We mobile ordered a treat while looking at the tree and when
we went to get it they had not carried it for a while now.
So the manager apologized and refunded the charge and felt bad so
she handed us this for free. Did not sound appealing but was
actually tasty surprisingly. Very nice of her.

 

[primalJ]

LIBERTY TREE TAVERN

It's not a trip unless we eat here. It's been a constant must do
for many years now. This time is just a perfect as all that came before.

We much prefer the salad now since they changed it not
long ago, when we were here in May we noticed the difference
and much better. I did forget my salad dressing packet this time.

Bask in all this glory. If you never asked for the fries you are foolish.
Ask for them ( no charge) and adorn it with the perfection of a pot roast.
Only thing we never love is the pork, just not our jam. Mac & cheese is
sublime. Green beans, perfection. Stuffing, lovely.

Still good, but much prefer when they had the griddled pound cake

In honor in a fallen dessert....

I miss you pal...... (2007)

 

[primalJ]

LAZY DOG ( off property but real close)
We found out about this new restaurant recently from our good friends
Todd & Michelle from the channel Traveling Around Disney, the food did look great.
So we decided to take a quick Uber ride over and check it out for ourselves.
Here we go........



We split the coconut shrimp and that was very good but
not a strong pronounced coconut flavor, but excellent nonetheless.






We both got burgers so we didn't have to share anything and they both were excellent.
Very good flavor and meat quality was superb. It was cooked like we asked.
Great onion rings and they were very reminiscent of the ones you would get at Flame Tree BBQ.

What really intrigued us was they make in-house complete frozen meals for only $10.
When staying at Copper Creek we like to keep emergency foods in the fridge
and we thought this would be great to have when we didn't feel like anything specific.
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PICKLE RATING:
4 out of 5 tickle my pickles.
large,crispy tangy. Plus its sliced long way
thanks for a solid pickle!

And here is the menu for the TV dinners which will be seeing next

 

[primalJ]

LAZY DOG
FROZEN MEALS



















Since we had trouble picking only a few we decided tobuy 5 get one 1 free.
Why the heck not.
They were all very tasty but my favorite was the turkey which I usually never care that much for.
Next would be the meatloaf.
Chicken parm was decent it's just tough to cook it with cheese on it already.
The fried chicken did come out better since it didn't have the sauce and cheese on it.
The Pot pie was very good, just a little soupy on the inside.
All the veggies were fresh tasting and flavorful. Plus all the desserts
were much better than I would have thought. Loved them all.
It's crazy that they sell these for only $10 each let alone give you a free one when you buy five.

We did find out they're opening a lazy dog in our area sometime next year so
we'll definitely be going up there to eat and try out more of the menu.
We really dug this place, thanks Todd & Michelle Great recommendation as usual.

 

[primalJ]

LA CANTINA





Since we were in a weird state of meals at this point we decided out of desperation
as we were walking by to get a little snack, but we didn't want to ruin our dinner later.
We figured why not, we haven't had this in about 15 years so it was time to re-review it again.

Place is always jumping and it's like fighting sharks to find a table but luckily we did.
Chicken tenders were okay better than I expected. Little light on the chicken tender part.

The tacos have decent flavor but they are incredibly small and for the price
they charge I think they've gone loco. At least it wasn't crap.

 

[primalJ]

GOOFY'S CANDY


The wife loves having sad departure cotton candy for when we get home
so we always grab it before our last day. She enjoys it.

 

[primalJ]

JOCK LINDSEY'S






Shockingly every trip that we had Jock Lindsey's penciled in somewhere we
always decide to cancel it. So this trip we finally decided to check it out specifically
they added some holiday menu items which sounded interesting.
I like the location, we sat outside which was nice but our server was a crabby horrible
and miserable. Just almost useless.
While all the food was okay at best, none of the stuff that came out was remotely hot
everything was just lukewarm.

So we ate it all and now we know we'll not come back again.
Never understood why people rave about this place I think they're out of their minds.
Just glad they did not serve Jock Straps.

 

[primalJ]

GIDEON'S









We've had Gideon's many times, but we usually only like the cake.
The cookies are so overrated and not to our preference.
Never worth any wait for sure.
But since they had the Kris Kringle cake and cookie we decided to give that a shot.
Also had to get a side cup of the peanut butter dip which is amazing.
This trip we did skip the peanut butter coffee for whatever reason that is great.

The cake was mediocre and odd tasting. The peanut butter dip helped it
but we both felt it was lacking a good flavor and weird.

Now the cookie we just took a bite each and threw it in the trash ,
so that should tell you everything you need to know. Huge let down.
What maniacs toss a cookie. We did and so surprised in our action.

So happy that Summer House is open and their cookies are far more outstanding.

 

[primalJ]

FRIAR'S NOOK


This is always a must get every trip. So glad to see it
still on the menu. Odd they do not serve it until 11am yet
they are open earlier. Still need to have this with some ice cream.
Perhaps during this September trip.

 

[primalJ]

FAIRFAX FAIR





What a colossal waste. Wife wanted to try it and it had hope.
Crap meat, lack of crappy meat. Sweet waffle bowl is so odd.
Tiny, only saving part was the spuds were decent. They should
be flogged for charging this much for this garbage.
Other than that the paper plate was nice...