One of my most vivid memories of WDW growing up was eating at the Coral Reef with my family and my Dad getting a great picture of my Mom getting ready to cut off the mickey butter head with this quite evil grin on her face! This was before the days of the digital camera so I'm sure the picture is somewhere in a box in a family members house. Good times....
Now that's what I've been trying to tell people. It's all the little things that used to make the magic, not some stupid thrill ride. You also never, ever, used a paper napkin at any table service restaurant, either.
I remember stories on RADP about parents who said their kids wouldn't allow them to cut the Mickey butter, and some who wanted to take it along when they left the restaurant. This was back when they were giving out the butter molded as Mickey's entire body.
I don't have a picture of it, but when we stayed at GF this past March, we ordered room service, and we were given the mickey butter, so they are still around.
I'll have to dig through our pictures from my first trip in '93. We were on a dining plan (much like the Deluxe Dining Plan now) and got three TS meals a day and we took tons of pictures so there's bound to be a pic of the Mickey butter! We were all so impressed with it (pretty much everything impressed us on that trip).