The Battle For My Wallet VI: The Trip Report That Isn’t a Trip Report (P.24, 11/24)

[ZZUB]

Looking for the register journal of course.

Good one. Except, in order for her to be looking for the register journal, she'd have to keep telling me that's what she was doing. As it was, she just disappeared. Like the Washington Post's objectivity.

I'm glad you liked the Grapefruit Cake. I know it's not BGPC, but on the right day, it can really hit the spot. It's one of my favorite desserts at the Brown Derby, and I'm happy that ZZUB got to partake. Even if the cast member did leave, go do the Great Movie Ride gangster skit, then go back to wherever they were storing that yummy goodness and finally bring it to you.

Interestingly enough, I planned to use a Great Movie Ride skit joke in the list but couldn't get the wording to flow correctly. I should have just asked you.

I'd heard about that Grapefruit cake but like you didn't want to use 2 TS credit to get it. I didn't know you could ask for it next door! Hmmmm I'll have to remember that!

See, now I'm being helpful. Starring Rolls is your friend.

Where else, but on the Dis, can I admit that we are choosing a value resort for our next trip, instead of the Contemporary (where we stayed for our last trip) for the food court?

Not a foodie, but I enjoyed this installment, as always.

I'm not so sure. If you're purposefully staying at a Value for the food court, then you ARE a foodie. Even if just a food court foodie.

aren't you the dude that swipes licks off of other people's dolewhips??

I swiped licks off my WIFE's Dole Whip. Not random strangers. I'm not NicoleMarie! And I'm not hating the Whip. I liked it. But it's just not ALL THAT. Given a choice, I like the orange juice one better.

Got that, TYVM. Unlike Josh.

Ah yes, jokes that only 3 people get. 'preace you picking it up, you Berkley, shiska feminista.

I'm slapping you with my eyes. Just so you know.

I've been slapped with worse. Just so you know.

Z, you had me until you got the the pumpkin pie shake.

Do you not like pumpkin pie? B/c if you don't like pumpkin pie then the shake will be gross. But if you do, then the shake is the bomb diggity (assuming that's still good). And LaLa is only partially right. DQ sells it as a Blizzard but they'll make it as a shake. Which in my mind is better. Easier to consume. No need for a spoon.

Or the person who thinks Africa is a country.

No one is THAT dumb are they?

I sincerely hope that is just a lot of backbiting and dishonest gossip mongering. But it does have the stench of truth about it. Anyway, looks like we dodged a bullet. Which is more than I can say for me at Rossyln.

That line might need a lil editing. They ONLY take cash...right?

Good eye, Frick. I went back and fixed it. We must be in the Bizarro world, where Frick is right and right is wrong.

Congrats on the big Bama win!

Thanks, but I fear we're just prolonging the inevitable. Beating LSU was not unlike naming Gov. Palin to the ticket. Nice bump in the polls but eventually people got to know her better and the markets went bust and so did McCain's campaign. We're overperforming and it's almost midnight.

I'm hungry.

That's what is says on my license plate.

I dreamt I was on the set of The Food Network. Paula Deen was there. She was teaching Martin Sheen and Rob Lowe how to cook a turducken as they furiously scribbled down the instructions on the back of a Carnation condensed milk label. The show was momentarily interrupted by a middle aged streaker running across the set carrying a little cup of grapefruit sections from Costco. And then along came the Deen boys. One of them was sucking back donuts, pumpkin pie, Chicken Kiev, tabouleh (tabouleh? really?! that's so taboo), fried shrimp, tuna fish on wheat, white and croissant, knish (even though I don't even know what that is), corn beef and hash, ribs and cornbread, grapes and corn, an expired Swiss Miss pudding cup, crab legs with butter, steak with butter, a roast beef sammie with butter, a citrus swirl (with butter) and two slabs each of Butter Grilled Pound Cake and grapefruit cake. All at the same time. With a VERY BIG SPOON!

I think as a rule, a poster shouldn't spend more time on the response than the writer spent on the update. Certainly, the responses shouldn't be funnier (as they ALWAYS are on Mel's thread). In any event, I'm not middle aged. And I'd never run with a cup of grapefruit slices. The juice would spill.

This made me laugh. I'm not sure why.

You were hopped up on sugar. And RC

But I'll second the tuna fish on a stick thing. What's up with that?

It's a fiction. A plot device. A joke as a way to move from one thing to the next. Like Obama's pledge to be bipartisan.

 

[carrieannie]

A new Monday update! I`m going to get a coffee and come back and read this baby..

 

[GreatBiscuit]

I share your love of all things consumable, but do not share your discipline in the use of the elliptical. (Or the oval, oblong, or any other fat burning devices.) My increasingly ample posterior is testimony to this unfortunate combination. For me it's not the sweets, I can pass on most cookies, cakes, ice creams, etc. But I'd give my left man breast for a big ole honkin ribeye smothered with onions and shrooms, and served with loaded baked potato.

Maybe I need to spend more time on the WISH board.

 

[carrieannie]

I love the elliptical! Gets rid of Oprah Butt...(poor Oprah )

A chapter on food is my kind of chapter!! That Tuna-On-A-Stick thingy sounds good. where would I find such a thing?

 

[1000thhappyhaunt]

It's a shame I don't know you.

Because at a moment like this I'd like to actually send you a real thank-you note.

Along with a simple freakin' Christmas card.


Instead... what I'm gonna do... is just suck it up and post it here:

That was a pretty great chapter! It was a thing of beauty.

A good writer can make the reader actually see and feel (and unfortunately sometimes even smell) what they're writing about. But taste?!!! Too? This chapter made me unbelievably hungry. To the point where you had me craving a really odd combination of foodstuffs. Which I'm gonna have more trouble disgesting than beets.

Touche.

Also... I might or might not have drooled. Literally. I'm not saying either way, mind you. But if I did it was ante prandium.

Which reminds me that I LOVELOVELOVE the title of this chapter. As well.

And you said, "I called an audible"!!!!!!

*scream*

I'm not sure why that struck me as so DED but it did.


Anywho... what I'm saying here with all that is that I had a tuna sandwich for lunch.

So there's the proof. It's NOT in the pudding. After all. Instead... it's in tinned, dolphin-friendly, water-packed fish.

My friendish.

It really is too bad I don't know you.

'Cause I think we'd eat together real nice. Excepting, obviously, your table manners and the bloody wrestling match which would occur when the bill came.

No, ZZUB. No. Not arm wrestling. I'm no fool, ZZUB. But... real wrestling.

With midgets.

Heh heh.


I'm just joking. We both know I'd have to pay.

But I really don't think I'd mind.

Yep. We're pretty different people ZZUB. Yep... pretty different. We have some differences, is what I'm sayin'. And that ain't so bad. After all. Oh. Except when it comes to eatin'. Then we're not so different at all. We're actually separated at birth. Like Ellen Degeneres and Owen Wilson.

I'm Owen Wilson. TFI.




Ok. I've got to split before I say anything nicer to such an idiot.



To SUM UP:

"ZZUB. You are the hungriest person I've ever known. And the best farter as well. It's your buffet. And I just ate at it."

At least I feel like I did.

*BURP*


Cheers and in varietate concordia, ZZUB!!!

Mel Happyhaunt

 

[LaLa]

...back WAY too many pumpkin pie shakes. Your brain cells must be cryognically frozen. NOTedWilliams. Because I'm not partially right. That's like being partially pregnant. NOBDG. I'm all the way right. All the way, ZZUB! Is that so hard to admit? My point was that the taste of the pumpkin pie thing is the bomb. Whether it goes by the name of blizzard or shake, it matters not. It's pumpkin pie ice cream blended up and wrapped in a cup.

But even though you dissed me (yet again), I still like you. For reasons unbeknownst to me. So I'll be on the lookout for the IV version of it for you, my friend. Since you prefer foods which are easier to consume. Without the hassle of a dealing with a big spoon. Because why slurp when you can just jam it into the artery and go?

That's MS. Jackson.

Apparently he ain't nasty. On second thought...

That's what it says on my license plate.

Funny. I thought it said "GO STATE... GO STATE!"

 

[jenjolt]

Wow!! I never laughed so hard in my life!!! During my lunch hour if I wasn't already a certifiable loon (I teach high schoolers) I would have been labled as such after reading your non-trip report (see I caught on well) and its replies. You and your following of posters might be the funniest people on the planet. Thank you for helping me live longer! Now to find the time to read your other reports, especially with no one around..I do have some sort of reputation to maintain!

BTW loved what you said in terms of the election. I too follow the belief that God didn't wake up Wednesday morning surprised by the election and He is firmly in control. For me to worry would be putting way too little faith in our great God! Thanks for the great words!

 

[Goofyluver]

Not so much that people are calling me Mr. Speaker or confusing me with the (now former) head coach at Tennessee. I’m on the elliptical 4 times a week to make sure that doesn’t happen.

That made me snork. Not to be confused with a snort. A snork is much more polite and ladylike.

So I stopped off for some donuts. To ease my pain.

Chips and salsa are New Mexico's donuts. FWIW.

Because, as you can see, donuts are hope I can believe in.

OOOOOOOO...I get it.

I don’t sleep eat. Yet. But I am willing to try.

I predict heartburn in your future.

When Mrs. Z was in labor with ZZUBY, the Birth Center had a hospitality room for the families. I ate a mean roast beef sandwich on some really good bread and washed it down with a sweet pudding cup. In her less sanguine moments, Mrs. ZZUB still chides me for telling her to breathe through a contraction as I chewed on my sandwich. Like I shouldn’t be eating. I needed to keep up my strength. Labor is very hard for a man. We have to stand for the whole thing. It was exhausting. Which is why I ate. To keep up my strength.

Yea...I remember when my son's father ate a banana in the delivery room.

I may or may not have told him where he could place said banana.

Dude, don’t be hating on knish until you taste a really good one.

Dude...don't I k-now it.

Right now, it’s these little red grapefruit cups I found at Costco. I keep a couple of cases of them in my refrigerator at work.

I have myself some of these little cups o' joy as well.

I hit the Costco jackpot one fine Saturday. You don't even have to eat lunch if you go to Costco on a Sat. afternoon.

This Saturday, they were handing our grapefruit cups. Not just a bite...the WHOLE thing. I walked around with that grapefruit cup in my hand nodding to strangers with their own cups in recognition of our super-duper find. Not like that 1/1000 of a chicken sausage that they give you over near the deli case. Nooooo. We got a whole ding dang cup of grapefruit.

I was so appreciative that I picked up 2 cases just for me.

Maybe that was their plan.

But I didn’t mind the new Disney buns so much. Actually, they were pretty good. In a not full-on-crappy way.

But do you REALLY think they're actually wheat...or more of a wheat-ISH?

I'd really like to k-now.

FYI: they’ve raised the price. It’s now $6 ducks for a Funnel Cake. And it’s still worth it.

I'm anti-funnel cake whilst in WDW. Only at county fairs...where no one will judge me for all of the powdered sugar on my pants.

I’d sooner get my news from MSNBC.

Bwahahahahahaaaa.

Keith Olbermann is a particular fav of mine.

He scream-talks. Which should not be confused with actually talking...or screaming for that matter. But, a wierd combo of them both.

Now you know you’re in a ZZUB Trip Report.

Do I?

Why am I to believe you?

First you say this isn't a TR...now it IS a TR.

Are you flip-flopping from your original statement?

What office are you running for exactly?

 

[Liz]

Tuna is the reason we ate lunch at Columbia Harbor House in the MK.

I had the CHH tuna sandwich for the first time on our trip last month. It definitely lived up to all the hype!

Grapefruit Cake sounded really good to me.

Grapefruit and good should never be used in the same sentence.

Getting your family up and then racing to the MK, to have your bags “searched” by men so old they make John McCain look like a Jonas Brother.

Gotta share an experience from our recent trip. We were in Germany when my husband said to me "I bet that's what Zzub looks like, the guy in the blue shirt" indicating in the direction of a man pushing a stroller. I'm sure it was a very nice man in his blue sleeveless t-shirt, knee high black socks, khaki shorts and straw hat. DH even said "see, he has two daughters." I sort of looked like this and said "that does NOT look like a successful lawyer." Turns out I was looking at the wrong blue shirted daddy!

 

[Yzma and Kronk]

Delicious foodie installment Zzub!

I did all those things Mel mentioned and then some while reading.

I loves me some BD grapefruit cake, but I wasn't at the Maelstromers lunch that day (I went to the Bakery in France....which Zzub you didn't mention....most puzzling) (Hi Ash!) Now I know you can get it elsewhere! Thanks for that tip.

Shouldn't it be a cakehanger??

 

[ZZUB]

But I'd give my left man breast for a big ole honkin ribeye smothered with onions and shrooms, and served with loaded baked potato.

GB, first of all, if the steak is that good, it shouldn't be smothered in anything. Secondly, what do you mean you don't love sweets? Third, if you're sucking back smothered ribeyes and loaded baked potatoes, get on Craigslist and find yourself a used eliptical and set it up in front of your TV. Then you can watch episodes of your favorite shows on DVD and work off the creamy, deliciousness of a pumpkin pie shake.

That Tuna-On-A-Stick thingy sounds good. where would I find such a thing?

The same place you will find a tax cut for 95% of Americans. In the land where dreams and fantasy live.

It's a shame I don't know you.

No, it's a blessing.

That was a pretty great chapter! It was a thing of beauty.

I agree. Which is rare that I agree with something you said.

Touche.

What are you doing, Tinkerbellarella now? You said touche only b/c it looks like tushy. We know what your game is!

And you said, "I called an audible"!!!!!!

*scream*

I'm not sure why that struck me as so DED but it did.

Was it like the time I wrote that the captain had on fancy pants?

Not arm wrestling. I'm no fool, ZZUB. But... real wrestling.

With midgets.

That made me laugh inapproprietly. Good show.

You and your following of posters might be the funniest people on the planet. Thank you for helping me live longer! Now to find the time to read your other reports, especially with no one around..I do have some sort of reputation to maintain!

On behalf of me and my creepy internet friends who post here, thank you. Most of them are very funny. At least one of them is dangerously unbalanced and criminally fixated on gerunds. And race-based quotas. Thanks for jumping in.

This Saturday, they were handing our grapefruit cups. Not just a bite...the WHOLE thing. I walked around with that grapefruit cup in my hand nodding to strangers with their own cups in recognition of our super-duper find. Not like that 1/1000 of a chicken sausage that they give you over near the deli case. Nooooo. We got a whole ding dang cup of grapefruit.

That's some nice Costco you got there. The grapefruit cup rules.

But do you REALLY think they're actually wheat...or more of a wheat-ISH?

I'd really like to k-now.

Hard to say. I failed to have the lab run any tests on them, but to my untrained eye, they looked wheaty.

I'm anti-funnel cake whilst in WDW

Then you're an idiot. Sorry. You're this close to being put on ignore. So watch it!

That's right, all your Obama loving didn't get you banned from my universe. But hating on the Funnel Cake is DANG-ER-OUS territory.

Grapefruit and good should never be used in the same sentence.

Watch it. See warning above. My love for grapefruit isn't quite up there with Funnel Cake. But it's in the neighborhood. NOApplebees.

Gotta share an experience from our recent trip. We were in Germany when my husband said to me "I bet that's what Zzub looks like, the guy in the blue shirt" indicating in the direction of a man pushing a stroller. I'm sure it was a very nice man in his blue sleeveless t-shirt, knee high black socks, khaki shorts and straw hat. DH even said "see, he has two daughters." I sort of looked like this and said "that does NOT look like a successful lawyer." Turns out I was looking at the wrong blue shirted daddy!

What kind of dorky, dumbutt freak do you people think I am? Sleeveless shirt? Knee high black socks?! Who am I? Morty Seinfeld?!

Delicious foodie installment Zzub!

I went to the Bakery in France....which Zzub you didn't mention....most puzzling)

Funny you mention the Bakery in France. I walked through it and was HUGELY UNIMPRESSED! It looked like a lot of stuff you could find anywhere else. And all of it looked stale. As I looked through the displays I decided I'd rather have a Funnel Cake. So we abandoned France, as most right thinking people do, and moved on to the land of the free, the home of the brave (and fried doughy).

Roll Tide.

 

[Liz]

What kind of dorky, dumbutt freak do you people think I am? Sleeveless shirt? Knee high black socks?! Who am I? Morty Seinfeld?!

As my teenage daughter often tells me, CALM DOWN!! The guy he was actually referring to was wearing a polo shirt and looked very nice. You would have been impressed.

 

[Motherofboys]

A new ZZUB TR! God is good! And a cake cliffhanger?? Finally something good to look forward to! I am grateful to you, it's been hard to shake depression after the season Michigan has had (go home RichRod........kidding, sorta),

You can get the recipe for the Brown Derby Grapefruit Cake, pretty easy to make - very delicious

Did you seriously get married on 10/21/95? That was our wedding day too! And you had a Bar Mitzvah?? Now I am seriously confused.

But seriously entertained and inspired too!

 

[ZZUB]

Did you seriously get married on 10/21/95? That was our wedding day too! And you had a Bar Mitzvah?? Now I am seriously confused.

Yup, that's our anniversary. Apparently it was a popular day to get married. If I'm not mistaken, the LaLas got married on that day also.

And yes, I was bar mitzvahed. I was raised Jewish. I became a born-again Christian as a teenager.

 

[bedillamouse]

Okay I'll have to admit that I'm normally a lurker....I'm just not as witty as your normal crew so I just sit back and enjoy the banter. But I had to show support for the Pumpkin Pie Shakes...they are the best thing ever!!! Almost anything pumpkin I'm all for but those shakes are right up there with the best dessert I've ever had....I don't know if you have the Culvers chain in your area but they have a GREAT Pumpkin shake that is made with frozen custard....even more calories but also that much more creamy than DQ at least in my neck of the woods.

Dang now I've got to go and get a shake and then more time on the treadmill....sigh....

 

[carrieannie]

Last edited by ZZUB : Yesterday at 10:27 AM. Reason: Now that Run DMC is getting older, will he be known as Gently Jog DMC?

 

[misstheworld]

Zzub - I'm not sure how you managed to wrangle West Wing references into a review of your trip to WDW, but I applaud every time you do it. Although the show's view was incredibly liberal (in my conservative opinion) and didn't agree with any of my political view points, it's still my favorite TV show. DH and I own the whole series on DVD and are now watching it for the third time. Season six will resume tonight.

Thanks for another TR!!

 

[Sneezie]

Where the heck is Sneezie? If this chapter didn't send out the bat signal for her, I don't know what will.

Here I am my frosty friend!

I must have gotten my signals crossed or something. I did get a tingling in my upper lip on Monday, but I started scouring Recipe websites for Thanksgiving dinner dessert ideas instead of checking to see if you had posted an update. I knew it was the day and I knew you would be on time. Because you're always on time... just like Metamucil.

But food is important. To me. When I’ve had a bad day, I wash it down with a shake, preferably pumpkin pie flavored. Tuesday night, as I drove home from a meeting listening to the election returns, I knew it was going to be a long night. So I stopped off for some donuts. To ease my pain.

Wait, you weren't an Obama supporter? Didn't you hear the man talk about pies? What did you base your vote on, anyway?

You're not stuck with a McCain/Palin sticker on your car, are you? I see alot of people with those "W" stickers glued to their car. Some of them have tried to pull it off, but you can still make out what it was from the remnants of what's left behind. I would have traded that sucker in or drove it into a lake by now.

The filet made me glad I was a man.

What, exactly, was this filet cooked in, man?

The night before I graduated from college, we ate dinner at this great place in Tuscaloosa that no longer exists. I can’t remember the name of the joint but they served these slap your mamma good rolls with a sweet butter on top.

First you tell a story about a cake that no longer exists, now you tell me about a roll with SWEET butter that no longer exists. What are you trying to do to me??????

The night I graduated law school, we ate at this seafood joint that had all you can eat steak and crab legs. Good night nurse! They were each better than the other. You’d eat some crab legs and think they were so sweet you didn’t need butter. Then you’d slice into your steak and you’d wonder how they got it so tender and so flavorful. Crab legs. Then steak. Crab. Steak. And back again. That was some powerfully good eatin’. Almost makes me miss law school.

This story reminds me of a particular trip that my sister and I took to The Golden Corral. Let's just say, I spent the entire ride home facing the back seat with my...uhm... porcine derriere... facing the windshield, moaning and groaning in agony. I vowed never to eat like that again.

On our first anniversary, we dutifully took our frozen cake top out of the freezer to choke back a taste of cake. Only our cake didn’t need to be choked back. It was good. Real good. It was so dadgum good that we saved the rest of it to keep eating it later. I don’t remember but I may have licked icing off the foil, too.

I ate my cake top the day I got back from the honeymoon. Notice I said "I"!

Not only do I love me some food, but I’m also a streaky as well. Not streaky like BodySuit Man. I mean when I hit on a food I really like, I eat it all the time. Right now, it’s these little red grapefruit cups I found at Costco. I keep a couple of cases of them in my refrigerator at work. Of course, it’s pumpkin pie time right now, so I’m sucking back pumpkin pie shakes from Dairy Queen at least two times a week. Because they taste like pumpkin pie in a cup. And I love me some pumpkin pie.

Are we brother and sister? I'm currently streaking on 100 Grand candy bars and Pistachio Gelato!

I’m crazy go nuts for tuna fish.

So is my sister. We are sister and brother, aren't we. Donnie Jr. is that you?

Which makes me sound about as low rent trash as they come.

I heard that loooooong before the tuna!

Tuna is the reason we ate lunch at Columbia Harbor House in the MK.

I really didn't care for CHH. I thought their fish was sweet and although I love me some desserts. I don't really care for sweet meat.

It was then that Mrs. Z said, “what is with you and the tuna?” I had no response to that. There really is no response to that.

Why didn't you tell her it makes you glad that you are a man! Then she would have been speechless, I know I was.

I was caught in line behind a family who ordered a couple of Funnel Cakes and then found out that their Key to The World didn’t open that door.

I am embarrassed to say that this happened to my sister and I on our recent trip. Our first morning at WDW, we ate at Fresh in The Dolphin Hotel. I brought cash to pay for my meal but my sister only brought her KTTW card. Our bill came to $37.50 total. Unfortunately, the Dolphin does not accept the KTTW and since I'd only brought $25 with me we didn't have enough to pay the bill. They got the manager for us and she agreed to discount the bill so that my $25 would cover it. That was embarrassing! We were going to go back and tip the waiter but we never got back there. So if anyone goes to eat at Fresh and Edgar is your waiter, tip him an extra $6 for me. I'm good for it.

“ZZUB only eats vegetables he can find in the chip aisle.”

That's how I get my fruits in too! Apple chips, banana chips, sweet potato chips. I don't even visit the produce section anymore.

I had read that you can get a hunk of the Grapefruit Cake at Starring Rolls (which is next door to the Brown Derby).

I wish I would have known that! I wanted to try that Grapefruit Cake too, but didn't want to make reservations at the Brown Derby for it.

Now I'm on my way to my nearest Chevron Mini-Mart

Here's the list of Thanksgiving Desserts I'm going to make so far:

Bananas Foster Cream Pie
Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffins
Butter Almond Tea Cookies
BUTTER GRILLED POUND CAKE!!!!!

 

[ZZUB]

Okay I'll have to admit that I'm normally a lurker....I'm just not as witty as your normal crew

Don't feel bad, the so-called normal crew isn't that witty. Except Sneezie. She's full on funny.

Zzub - I'm not sure how you managed to wrangle West Wing references into a review of your trip to WDW, but I applaud every time you do it.

Stick around then. You'll want to read about what kind of day it has been.

Wait, you weren't an Obama supporter? Didn't you hear the man talk about pies? What did you base your vote on, anyway?

No, I didn't hear him talk about pies. If I had, I might have voted for him. ZZUB loves pie. But I love cake 3.14 times more.

You're not stuck with a McCain/Palin sticker on your car, are you? I see alot of people with those "W" stickers glued to their car.

The only bumper sticker I have on my car says, "Keep honking, I'm still eating."

First you tell a story about a cake that no longer exists, now you tell me about a roll with SWEET butter that no longer exists. What are you trying to do to me??????

Sorry, my friend. I feel your pain.

Are we brother and sister? I'm currently streaking on 100 Grand candy bars and Pistachio Gelato!

This made me laugh so hard I began sneezing with a British accent. You kill me DED.

Here's the list of Thanksgiving Desserts I'm going to make so far:

Bananas Foster Cream Pie
Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffins
Butter Almond Tea Cookies
BUTTER GRILLED POUND CAKE!!!!!

What time do you want the ZZUBs on Thanksgiving Day?

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Don't feel bad, the so-called normal crew isn't that witty. Except Sneezie. She's full on funny.