OK, foodies, I'm back and I have lost my mind. Completly forgot about a few little wee food mentions before Raglan Road. Truth is, I just don't want this to end and I know it has to.
I know that I try to go to the best places I can because I like good food and I still have so many places on my list that I haven't tried like Blue Zoo.
However I did find a flaw in my strategy when traveling with others that have different food priorities. Example: We are at Magic Kingdom and I'm asked what is good for Counter Service and I look like this:
At Animal Kingdom, I've always liked the pulled pork sandwich from Flame Tree and Pizzafari has a really good grilled chicken ceaser salad.
Epcot has a variety of counter service that are good like Fish & Chips, Kringla Bakery (they have sandwiches) and the sake cart. Sake is made of rice, that counts. Just stay away from China, it's where cold, greasy noodles go to die.
MGM is not my kind of park and I don't spend much time here except dining at Brown Derby and swilling drinks at the Tune-In Lounge (ask for Dave). Starring Rolls is always a good fall back position for munchy food and they have a killer chocolate croissant for $2.79.
But Magic Kingdom.... Here is where
Disneyland and Magic Kingdom collide. They both have pretty sub-standard food, especially of the counter variety. I have to say that MK is a bit better and that isn't saying much.
So we needed food. Remember we are with Grumpy and nothing sounds good to him. He wants a corn dog. I tell him that they don't sell corn dogs. Never seen one. He is thinking of that abomination of nature - Paradise Pier at Disneys California Adventure (sorry another of my purist instincts coming out but Walt did NOT want carny rides in his park).
OK rant over. So he insists on looking for a corn dog, wandering aimlessly, looking for something that I told him they don't have. No carts, nothing. THEY DONT HAVE IT. Then I thought "maybe" they would have them for a kids choice at a restaurant though I thought it would be more likely at a sit down place rather than counter service.
So Tink and I decided that we would go to the Asian Noodle place over in Tomorrowland since it sounded like good, healthy food. On our way, I grab a dole whip (vanilla/pineapple swirl) to tied me over and because I have to have a break from the corn dog mayhem. We shlep over to the Noole place and its closed.
Great.
Now back to the drawing board. Grumpy still wants corn dogs. As we are leaving Tomorrowland, we pass Caseys on the corner of Main Street. We check that out and find hot dogs and "corn dog nuggets". I have no idea what comprises a nugget but they are corn dogs so here ya go Grumpy!
Ummm, no.
Grumpy doesn't want nuggets. He wants them on a stick.
Fine. I told him to order them then stick toothpicks or wooden coffee stirers in them, then they would have a stick. He doesn't want to do that. O Kay. Back to the hunt.
We go to Fantasyland and decide on the Pinochio place. It is wall to wall kids. Grumpy doesn't do crowds of kids. Ummmm, it's Fantasyland. Helloooooo.
OK, next idea. I suggest Columbia House. It is right there on the corner, I had been there before and knew it wasn't too bad.
So we get into line, I go for my resort pass and... it's gone. GONE. It was in my cell phone holder. I took a call on my phone after I got my dole whip and I used it when we got a FP for Peter Pan. It is now gone. However it is also linked to my CREDIT CARD. Great. So we decided to get lunch and then I will go to a gift store, get a cast member to call WL and turn off my card. I will get a replacement when we return that afternoon.
So while I am in line, all traumitized, picturing slimy people charging 50 million Stitch plushes on my card, the worst shrew of a woman on planet Earth was yelling at her poor husband about everything. She was. She was a Bee atch if ever there was one to shamble through the gates of the Magic Kingdom. She had a New Jersey accent (I'm sorry New Jersey citizens. You can probably ship her off to an island somewhere). She wants soda, she wants a different soda, why did her husband get her THAT? Then they get their food (THANK GOD) and we order. Oh no, she's back to yell at the CM. Her kid got the mac & cheese. It is a mickey head shaped dish. There are carrots in one ear, something else in the other ear and the mac & cheese in the main face. Well it wasn't ENOUGH food for her 3 YEAR OLD! She wants some more! The husband returns to try and deal with her. The CM gives them some cake as a way to placate her or shove it down her throat to choke her, which is what I would have done. She doesn't WANT cake. God, let's just get our food and run. RUN, RUN.
Tink got a tuna sandwich with a bag of carrots that was pronounced "good enough for checkers". What does that mean? Who knows what fairies think?
Grumpy got a bowl of chilli. He thought it came with something else. I'm not sure what, crackers, fries, small children. I didn't ask.
I got the fish and chips which were fine. The fish was actually pretty nice. Crispy breading but not too much breading. The fries could have been crispier. They were a bit woogy and that is never pretty.
For dessert myself and Tink got the apple piece which was decent for park pie. It wasn't mushy, the apples slightly firm but not crunchy. Good spices and a flacky, non-soggy crust so I couldn't be too picky.
I deactivated my card after that. No plushe were purchased without my authorization. Happiness reined supreme. For the time being.
On our final day we spent a few hours at MK and had our last CS credits to use. God, not more counter service in Magic Kingdom. I am LOST! Asian place closed. I don't want a hot dog. Mexican food place across from Pirates - closed. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Well we finish riding Big Thunder and it is lunch time. We had decided on the burger place right on the corner. However, NOW Grumpy wants the corn dog nuggets. Go figure. I tell them that I can't eat a hot dog. Just can't do it. So we split up and I tell them I will meet them there. I go to Pecos Bill's. I usually avoid hamburgers because you never know where that meat comes from or what is in it or if it has a bird or monkey disease but I figure I will try.
OK, I'm a freak - stop laughing. I get the cheeseburger with fries, ice tea and the dessert is a brownie with peanut butter mousse on top. It was the only dessert in the whole wild west.
The burger was fine but what made this REALLY special was the fixins bar. That's right - FIXINS! They had chopped onions and ketchup and mustard and mayo and relish but wait... they also have fresh grilled onions and sauteed mushrooms and cheese sauce that I put on my fries. The fixins bar makes this THE place to go if you have to have a burger.
OK, that is my morning spew. All I have left are drinks/snacks and Raglan Road with pictures. Wheeew. I need to watch TiVo now. I have Great Hotels - Wilderness Lodge saved.
) Actually looking at photos of the entrees leads me to know if I would actually order this much more than just reading a description. And this thread is FUN!
and me 
into Type A Foodie Commandos. Our last trip we ate at Jiko, AP, Flying Fish, Brown Derby, the Yachtsman and LeCellier, among others. We now, ahem, dine as opposed to merely eat. 
In chatting with another couple this past trip, we all agreed that, for us, WDW is now a food event more than a park event.
I have only ever eaten in Restauran Marrakesh in the Morrocan Pavilion, but what you described of the way they cooked the lamb sounds like what the english chip shops call kebab. I think it's usually chicken. Being an american living in the UK I was pretty grossed out the first time I saw it. I'll have to have a look in September to see if it's the same.
