Mister Disney & the K-Man's Not Quite Ready for Prime Time Dining Experience

[Mr. D's K-Man]

Mister Disney and the K-Man's Not Quite Ready for Prime Time Dining Experience at the 50's Prime Time Diner

Say that 10 times fast!



The last time we were at the 50’s Prime Time Diner, we had stopped in as part of our MAD dash during a torrential rain/thunder and lightening storm back in March, 2005. We were staying off property, and had ventured to MGM for the evening.

Drenched through our Mickey ponchos and umbrellas (no different demographic jokes please ) we stopped in for dessert at the Diner. It was my first experience, and I quickly felt at home with the black and white TVs playing reruns of Vitavetavegamin. “ELBOWS OFF THE TABLE YOUNG MAN”! I jumped and looked around for my 80 year old mother!

Today we arrived early for our ADR. Early … now there’s a first for us! We sat at the counter and announced ourselves “Misters Disney here for our ADR”. “I don’t care who you are Misters Smartie Pants. Sit down and wait your turn. Don’t you see all these people in front of you?” I spun around on the stool, again, looking for my mother.

 

[JELBoggio]

Can't wait for this one! We're eating there this Saturday!

 

[Mr. D's K-Man]

A short while later, “Misters Disney, let’s go. Time to eat.” We went up to our “Mom”. She looked at us and said “boy it looks like you boys love to eat.” Mother knows best! LOL

Mom lead us through the dining room and back to a corner kitchen …. to the exact same chrome kitchen table that we sat at in March, 2005. We definitely felt at home. Sharing kitchen with is was a large family of 7, including parents, children and a rambunctious grandchild and a much quiter family of 4 which include the parents and 2 face-painted children. As she sat us, Mom introduced us to our “cousins” and reminded us of the house rules, no elbows on the tables and we had to eat all of our green beans. She introduced us to our “uncle” (who we’ll call Thomas) who was our server.

“Uncle Thomas” repeated Mom’s rules to us and handed us the menus. After asking us what we wanted to drink, he left us to “pour” over the menu to make our choices. Pour turned into “labor”. We found the menu to be rather limited and labored over our choice of two different meals that were of interest to us, both of which we would want to share.

 

[Mr. D's K-Man]

While we labored, from the dining room, we could hear a rather animated “Uncle Patrick” who was truly keeping his flock in line. Looking through the opening in the wall, Mister Disney and I made note that there wasn’t a single elbow on the table, and a grown man laboring and close to gagging on his green beans. Uncle Patrick wasn’t letting anyone get away with anything. He was both strict and entertaining.



“Cousins, I have an announcement” he yelled. Looking us straight in the eyes, Uncle Patrick announced that he had “found the two missing earrings from Gramma’s jewelry box”, making direct reference to our nose rings. We were drawn into the play in Uncle Patrick’s dining room. Guess that’ll teach us not to stick our noses where they don’t belong!

Reality quickly set in however when “Uncle Thomas” returned. Something was very different between the interactions with Uncle Thomas and those of Uncle Patrick in the very next room. It seems that with our diet cokes, Uncle Thomas also brought back with him a serving of bad attitude. Uncle Thomas, now totally out of character, out of magic and out of personality, dryly asked us if we had selected what we wanted to eat.

We felt wetter than the last time we visited!

 

[Mr. D's K-Man]

As he was taking our order, Mom brought in another family of 4 to join our kitchen and loudly announced the house rules and introduced all of us as cousins. After taking our order, Uncle Thomas went over to their table and started asking “our cousins” what they wanted to drink. As the conversation went on, Uncle Thomas was less than magical as he explained what “our cousins” choices included with the meal plan which they had chosen.

Mister Disney leaned over to me and quietly whispered, “that explains his attitude”. When dealing with those on meal plans, it appears “some” staff feel they have nothing to lose, because they are dealing with a fee based table. Frankly, “Uncle Thomas” didn’t have to perform. He was going to be getting the same money whether he did or not. Mouseketters, we were TRAPPED in "Uncle Tom's Kitchen!"

 

[scanne]

Trapped? Oh, I am SO looking forward to this one!

 

[Letsbgoofy]

I think Mr. Disney has some serious competition for "funniest reviews". I can't wait to read more!

We have had some duds at Prime Time too. I don't think it's just the meal plan (though it sounds like that was at least part of Thomas' problem), some waiters just aren't as into the whole thing as others.

 

[MyTalula]

Oh I can't wait for the rest of this! We almost went to PT last winter, then I changed to Mama Melrose... so I want to know what I missed.

 

[Mr. D's K-Man]

YES, TRAPPED! It was SO bad that Mister Disney told me he would not be kicking me under the table and set me loose.

My nights with the Pirates prepared me well for this one.

 

[larklynn]

This is the one restraunt that scares me more then anything with my picky eaters. If someone tryed to force my ds5 to eat something he didn't like he would get sick all over them or the table so no PT for us for awhile. I hope it wasn't to horrible for you

 

[Mr. D's K-Man]

I'll let Mister Disney take over for a while and do the food selections, etc.

 

[Mister Disney]

So Uncle Tom comes back, takes our order and disappears again until our appetizer is ready, which he brings out and plopped on the table in front of us.

We decided to split the Fried Herbed Cheese.

 

[Mr. D's K-Man]

This is the one restraunt that scares me more then anything with my picky eaters. If someone tryed to force my ds5 to eat something he didn't like he would get sick all over them or the table so no PT for us for awhile. I hope it wasn't to horrible for you

Oh, Goodness, NO! It wasn't horrible. NO "Uncle Thomas" was going to ruin our experience.

Suffice it to say ... K-Man was on a mission.

 

[CinRell]

Oh oh oh oh!! I had the herb fried cheese.. HEAVEN on a plate! Can't wait to see what you guys thought of it!

Our waiter (can't remember his name) wasn't mean.. but wasn't really too exciting.

 

[Mister Disney]

Well, I was expecting fried Mozzarella.....not fried soft spreadable herb cheese, I did not like it in the least, but the K-Man LOVED it and devoured the entire thing. I picked at the grapes....I guess you could say I was on a diet in preparation for our gluttonous adventures at the Bistro de Paris that evening.

Moving on...someone else brought out our dinners, without any fan fare

We decided on the Pot Roast with mashed potatoes..

we also thought we'd try the Fried Chicken with green beans and mashed potatoes...

 

[Mr. D's K-Man]

We decided on the Pot Roast with mashed potatoes..

we also thought we'd try the Fried Chicken with green beans and mashed potatoes...

These too were plopped in front of us.

LUCKY ME! I got the one with the GREEN BEANS plopped in front of me!

Can you see where this is going?

 

[Mister Disney]

I was relieved to see they use yukon gold style potatoes, which are my personal favorites. Oh course they were thick and lumpy as I recall growning up. Some people remember smooth whipped mashed potatoes...I on the other hand always had the lumpy variety.

The green beans?
HORRIBLE....over cooked limp things...no way no how was I going to eat those and Kevin refused as he did with the Applesauce at POP Century.

The fried chicken was good. Super Crispy and juicy, just the right herbs and spices....wait....did I walk into Kentucky Fried Chicken?!?!?

The pot roast on the other hand, MAJOR disappointment! It just did not have enough flavor, although very tender. I guess i was hoping for my mother's pot roast recipe which just falls apart and melts in your mouth.....

Mister Disney's Mom's Pot Roast Recipe
Start with a 7 bone (bone in) chuck roast, about 3 inches thick. Ask your butcher to cut one this thick. Usually the stores have them, but much thinner.

FREEZE it solid, at least overnight.

Preheat your oven to 225°

place Frozen roast in a deep roasting pan (The bottom of the broiler pan usually works well)

Sprinkle on top of the roast liberally with 2 packets of Lipton Onion Soup Mix.

seal completely with tin foil.

place in over and cook for 6 - 7 hours.

Serve with mashed potatoes.

 

[JELBoggio]

Keep it coming - need to know if you tried the "famous" PB&J shake! I plan to try it - want to know what the K-Man thinks of it (being a dessert person and all).

 

[Mr. D's K-Man]

"Here .... you eat it."

"NO ... you eat it."

"NO! YOU!"

We suffered through whatever we could on this one. There just wasn't enough Diet Coke to wash down these meals. Perhaps the fried chicken could squeek through as OK, but then again, you're talking about two men who go to the KFC all-you-can-eat buffet a couple of times a month.

If it weren't for the herbed cheese and the grapes, we'd have starved to death!

 

[Mr. D's K-Man]

ENOUGH of this pain ... yes, the desserts looked great, but it was time to cash out from "Uncle Tom's Kitchen".

There were 2 less green beans on the plate in front of me than where plopped in front of me. Somehow they had to disappear ... and neither of us brought a plastic bag.

As luck would have it ... the cheese platter had never been cleared so I quickly began my mission of "hiding the green beans". Together, Mister Disney and I scraped the plates onto one, used a bread plate as a cover and hid the green beans from Uncle Thomas.

Yoo Whoo ... Uncle Thomas ... we cleared the table and are ready for the check!