Yellow_Stitch
"No need to expose your superstructure."
- Joined
- May 10, 2005
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From an inside source so deeply placed that to utter the person's name on this board would jeopardize my mole's employment I have discovered that the current configuration of Raglan Road was not the original plan. It was to be called Angela's Ashes, after Frank McCourt's popular/heartbreaking novel based on his Irish childhood. My source tells me that the restaurant was to be 2 levels, with the lower level "Ireland" subject to flooding in the rainy season; unpleasant due to the communal privy located just outside the door. Patrons could climb the rickety stairs (looking out for the Angel on the 7th step) to the upper, dry, level, known as "Italy." The menu was to consist of fried cuts of bread, with the signature dish being sheep's head, served family style. "Save the eye for Dad! All of the nutrition is in the eye," read the souveneir menu I was shown. The drinks available were tea served in jelly jars or pints of Guiness served on caskets. Hilarious! Your waitresses, all named Angela, were usually to be found sitting and staring into the fireplace, drinking tea and smoking Wild Woodbine cigarettes as their ill-fitting dentures clacked. Magic your way dining was to be grudgingly accepted, but only if you could prove that you had done your bit for Ireland.
Well, I for one think this would have been a charming addition to the WDW dining landscape!
Well, I for one think this would have been a charming addition to the WDW dining landscape!