Beach Club gingerbread treats are terrible

[1GoldenSun]

Every year I visit the Grand Floridian's gingerbread house and buy a shingle and other treats. Since there isn't one there this year, I picked up some treats at the kiosk at Beach Club. The gingerbread carousel was incredible as usual, but the treats were just terrible.

I got a shingle, a gingerbread Mickey with the chocolate ears, and a gingerbread cookie. Usually they're put into those waxed paper "sleeves," but these were packaged in sealed plastic bags. All three were stale, hard, and not very tasty. Usually the gingerbread has that chewy "give" to it, that your teeth kind of sink into, but these were just a crunchy staleness. We only ate one bite of all three of them and threw them in the trash. I considered saving them to eat with coffee in the morning, to soften them up a little, but they don't even taste good enough to waste the calories on; there are too many better things to eat.

Has anyone else had this experience or was I just unlucky? I usually LOVE Disney's gingerbread but I'm never buying it again if it comes prepackaged.

 

[1GoldenSun]

Today I went to the Main Street Confectionery and got a fresh, delicious gingerbread Mickey!

 

[gottalovepluto]

Today I went to the Main Street Confectionery and got a fresh, delicious gingerbread Mickey!

Really?! It was fresh and yummy? I tried one of those hotel ones a couple years back (very likely could have been BC, it was definitely not GF) and I have avoided all Disney Gingerbread anything like the plague ever since… my pocket book may appreciate it but my taste buds now wonder if they have been lied to…

 

[hardcorestitch]

Every year I visit the Grand Floridian's gingerbread house and buy a shingle and other treats. Since there isn't one there this year, I picked up some treats at the kiosk at Beach Club. The gingerbread carousel was incredible as usual, but the treats were just terrible.

I got a shingle, a gingerbread Mickey with the chocolate ears, and a gingerbread cookie. Usually they're put into those waxed paper "sleeves," but these were packaged in sealed plastic bags. All three were stale, hard, and not very tasty. Usually the gingerbread has that chewy "give" to it, that your teeth kind of sink into, but these were just a crunchy staleness. We only ate one bite of all three of them and threw them in the trash. I considered saving them to eat with coffee in the morning, to soften them up a little, but they don't even taste good enough to waste the calories on; there are too many better things to eat.

Has anyone else had this experience or was I just unlucky? I usually LOVE Disney's gingerbread but I'm never buying it again if it comes prepackaged.

I hope this isn’t the future…

 

[SL6827]

I don't think the gingerbread house will ever be back at the Grand. And this could be a more common result.

 

[gottalovepluto]

I don't think the gingerbread house will ever be back at the Grand. And this could be a more common result.

expect the house returns next year. Otherwise they wouldn’t have highlighted in multiple announcements how it’s not going to be there this year. That thing must make an obscene amount of money- they sell low margin items at high costs and the line is almost always full. And now they get to sell booze from the new bar to those waiting or not inclined toward ginger treats.

 

[SL6827]

expect the house returns next year. Otherwise they wouldn’t have highlighted in multiple announcements how it’s not going to be there this year. That thing must make an obscene amount of money- they sell low margin items at high costs and the line is almost always full. And now they get to sell booze from the new bar to those waiting or not inclined toward ginger treats.

I sure hope your right!

 

[Mazz519]

We were just there last week and experienced the same thing, Gingerbread was hard, wasn’t happy

 

[Pooh2]

The year we got gingerbread treats at the Grand Floridian, they were very stale and tasteless.

 

[Eastern]

So you spent over $25: I would bring it all back. Too many people not complaining about bad food items.

 

[SL6827]

Cost cutting knows no end. Greedflation will never go down.

 

[fla4fun]

This isn’t anything new. I tried a gingerbread shingle at GF probably twenty years ago, and it was hard and stale. We figured they must have baked them too far in advance and stored them improperly. I am picky about my gingerbread cookies. We have a good recipe from our grandmother that makes firm yet soft gingerbread cookies. I haven’t bought any gingerbread at Disney for years.

I don’t mind a nice crispy ginger snap that is meant to be hard from the get-go, but I do mind a cookie that looks soft and fluffy being so hard you nearly break a tooth.