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It’s Wednesday, so it’s a Disney-MGM Studios day. After a quick cereal breakfast in the room, we’re off and running.
Time flies when you’re having fun, so it’s now time for our 1:00 p.m. ADR at the 50’s Prime Time Café. We happen to be in the area around 12:35, so we stop in to see if we can check in early, and the answer was yes.
Which was very nice since it was nice and HOT outside. We didn’t get a drink from the bar because I knew that if I did, there would be no room for a Chocolate Milkshake. And if chocolate is on the menu, there are my food priorities to consider.
We took a seat in the living room and waited about 15 minutes to be seated, not bad considering we were early.
I found a hidden Mickey on the coffee table. I'm not very good at finding Hidden Mickey's, so I was very impressed with myself for actually seeing this thing that was literally right in front of my nose:
Uncle Patrick (I sure hope that was his name!) was our server and I was thrilled that he really didn’t get into the role too terribly much of being a nagging Uncle. I think that I was a bit worn out from our non-stop commando schedule thus far to have wanted to play along.
Here is the view to the right of our table, from where I was sitting:
And the TV above us. I got a kick watching the old TV shows. It looked like they rotated loops of shows every 30 minutes or so. I could be wrong, but suddenly we were seeing different things after a while.
I had already made up my mind what I was going to get. Prior to our trip I had spent lots of time pouring over the menus on the net deciding what to get at each restaurant. See, while it takes Handsome just minutes to browse the menu and make a decision, it can take me, well... a gadzillion more minutes than him to choose just the right food. Food can make or break a vacation, didn'tcha know? At least that's true in my Book of Rules.
Naturally, I started with a Chocolate Milkshake for the family to share. The Peanut Butter & Jelly shake sounded interesting, but there wasn't any chocolate in it. As I said, I have my priorities to consider. There was enough here to fill the glass at least one more time. It could've been a meal in itself.
For appetizers, The kids got chicken noodle soup. I got the Shrimp Cocktail. Nothing fancy here, just plain old peel-and-eat shrimp with cocktail sauce. Sweetie Girl loved this. I almost forgot to get a photo if it, so that's why there's some shrimp missing
. I'm starting to slip in my duties...
Handsome got the Fried Boursin Cheese.
The cheese was awfully yummy, but would have been nice if it was served with bread rather than toast. It’s just a personal preference. The kids helped us gobble this down pretty fast, amidst sips of the choco shake.
Time to order lunch. Handsome got the stacked sandwich with ham and turkey with salad – take a look at this puppy!:
Now, the sandwich was so HUGE. I'm not much of a sandwich eater, but this was good. Handsome couldn't finish it all so he got the rest “on wheels”, which he ate for dinner while we were waiting for Fantasmic to begin. And that pickle was yummy with a nice garlic taste. I love a good garlic pickle! I can assure you that there was nothing left of that by the end of the meal.
I got the pot roast:
My pot roast was falling-off-the-bone tender (without the bone!) and did not have any fat in it. I had read previous reports that there was too much fat in the meat, but it wasn’t that way for me. Yay! The veggie garnish I could’ve done without since it really wasn’t edible. I ate all the meat and some of the potatoes just because, you know, I had to save room for dessert. No one had ordered green beans, so thankfully we didn’t have to worry about eating all of them.
The kids both chose the meatloaf (mostly because we told them they had to!). The reason why we told them what to eat is if we didn’t do that, they’d eat mac ‘n’ cheese for every meal. They gobbled this stuff up.
While we were eating, Uncle Patrick brought us the dessert menu to read. The kids thought this was very fun!
Speaking of dessert – here’s Handsome’s angel food cake with berries:
The kids had - GUESS! - a make-your-own sundae. Amazing. But this time it was served in a chocolate-dipped waffle cone bowl. It was a nice change & the kids liked eating it. What kid doesn't love a waffle bowl?
And I had the S'mores. Surprise, surprise, surprise. Now, in all the photos I had seen prior to this trip I had not seen the layer of chocolate hiding beneath the marshmallows. I couldn't understand how they could pass this dessert off as s'mores if there wasn't a chocolate bar underneath those mushmellows! But when I took my first bite I realized just how completely wrong I was. Lotsa melted chocolate. I could feel the sugar rotting my teeth. Wowsa. CAN WE SAY CHOCOLATE?
What a way to go. But it ended up being too much sugar, so I had to leave the last two marshmallows on the plate. I had my sugar buzz for the day.
Handsome noted that this was the least expensive table service meal we had while on the DDP, which translated means that he wouldn’t mind forking out the bucks to eat here again when not on a dining plan. And we wouldn’t mind eating here again, either. It was a fun place, the food was your basic comfort food, and it was well prepared and good. So if we ever go back to the Disney Studios again, we’ll be happy to eat here one more time. Although the thought of eating at Sci Fi Drive In is kind of intriguing...
Decisions, decisions.
Next up: Catalina Eddies
It’s Wednesday, so it’s a Disney-MGM Studios day. After a quick cereal breakfast in the room, we’re off and running.
Time flies when you’re having fun, so it’s now time for our 1:00 p.m. ADR at the 50’s Prime Time Café. We happen to be in the area around 12:35, so we stop in to see if we can check in early, and the answer was yes.
Which was very nice since it was nice and HOT outside. We didn’t get a drink from the bar because I knew that if I did, there would be no room for a Chocolate Milkshake. And if chocolate is on the menu, there are my food priorities to consider.
We took a seat in the living room and waited about 15 minutes to be seated, not bad considering we were early.
I found a hidden Mickey on the coffee table. I'm not very good at finding Hidden Mickey's, so I was very impressed with myself for actually seeing this thing that was literally right in front of my nose:
Uncle Patrick (I sure hope that was his name!) was our server and I was thrilled that he really didn’t get into the role too terribly much of being a nagging Uncle. I think that I was a bit worn out from our non-stop commando schedule thus far to have wanted to play along.
Here is the view to the right of our table, from where I was sitting:
And the TV above us. I got a kick watching the old TV shows. It looked like they rotated loops of shows every 30 minutes or so. I could be wrong, but suddenly we were seeing different things after a while.
I had already made up my mind what I was going to get. Prior to our trip I had spent lots of time pouring over the menus on the net deciding what to get at each restaurant. See, while it takes Handsome just minutes to browse the menu and make a decision, it can take me, well... a gadzillion more minutes than him to choose just the right food. Food can make or break a vacation, didn'tcha know? At least that's true in my Book of Rules.
Naturally, I started with a Chocolate Milkshake for the family to share. The Peanut Butter & Jelly shake sounded interesting, but there wasn't any chocolate in it. As I said, I have my priorities to consider. There was enough here to fill the glass at least one more time. It could've been a meal in itself.
For appetizers, The kids got chicken noodle soup. I got the Shrimp Cocktail. Nothing fancy here, just plain old peel-and-eat shrimp with cocktail sauce. Sweetie Girl loved this. I almost forgot to get a photo if it, so that's why there's some shrimp missing
. I'm starting to slip in my duties...
Handsome got the Fried Boursin Cheese.
The cheese was awfully yummy, but would have been nice if it was served with bread rather than toast. It’s just a personal preference. The kids helped us gobble this down pretty fast, amidst sips of the choco shake.
Time to order lunch. Handsome got the stacked sandwich with ham and turkey with salad – take a look at this puppy!:
Now, the sandwich was so HUGE. I'm not much of a sandwich eater, but this was good. Handsome couldn't finish it all so he got the rest “on wheels”, which he ate for dinner while we were waiting for Fantasmic to begin. And that pickle was yummy with a nice garlic taste. I love a good garlic pickle! I can assure you that there was nothing left of that by the end of the meal.
I got the pot roast:
My pot roast was falling-off-the-bone tender (without the bone!) and did not have any fat in it. I had read previous reports that there was too much fat in the meat, but it wasn’t that way for me. Yay! The veggie garnish I could’ve done without since it really wasn’t edible. I ate all the meat and some of the potatoes just because, you know, I had to save room for dessert. No one had ordered green beans, so thankfully we didn’t have to worry about eating all of them.
The kids both chose the meatloaf (mostly because we told them they had to!). The reason why we told them what to eat is if we didn’t do that, they’d eat mac ‘n’ cheese for every meal. They gobbled this stuff up.
While we were eating, Uncle Patrick brought us the dessert menu to read. The kids thought this was very fun!
Speaking of dessert – here’s Handsome’s angel food cake with berries:
The kids had - GUESS! - a make-your-own sundae. Amazing. But this time it was served in a chocolate-dipped waffle cone bowl. It was a nice change & the kids liked eating it. What kid doesn't love a waffle bowl?
And I had the S'mores. Surprise, surprise, surprise. Now, in all the photos I had seen prior to this trip I had not seen the layer of chocolate hiding beneath the marshmallows. I couldn't understand how they could pass this dessert off as s'mores if there wasn't a chocolate bar underneath those mushmellows! But when I took my first bite I realized just how completely wrong I was. Lotsa melted chocolate. I could feel the sugar rotting my teeth. Wowsa. CAN WE SAY CHOCOLATE?
What a way to go. But it ended up being too much sugar, so I had to leave the last two marshmallows on the plate. I had my sugar buzz for the day.
Handsome noted that this was the least expensive table service meal we had while on the DDP, which translated means that he wouldn’t mind forking out the bucks to eat here again when not on a dining plan. And we wouldn’t mind eating here again, either. It was a fun place, the food was your basic comfort food, and it was well prepared and good. So if we ever go back to the Disney Studios again, we’ll be happy to eat here one more time. Although the thought of eating at Sci Fi Drive In is kind of intriguing...
Decisions, decisions.Next up: Catalina Eddies
It's always nice to meet another chocoholic out there. But then, we're everywhere, aren't we?
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), and by the time we got to the bus stop there really wasn't a line for the bus.
The kids devoured every slice.
