Some cool facts about the Food and Wine Festival courtesy of AllEars:
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DessertFUN FOOD & WINE FACTS
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Walt Disney World guests can sip new wines, beers and cocktails, taste flavors from around the globe and eat to the beat of live entertainment at the 18th annual Epcot International Food & Wine Festival presented by Chase from September 27 to November 11, 2013. Here are some facts about the 46-day festival:
More than 300 wine and beer seminars take place during the 46-day festival
The festival's Ocean Spray Cranberry Bog is refilled three times during the course of the 46-day event, using a total of 910,000 cranberries or more than 3,000 pounds of the sweet-tart fruit
1.5 million sumptuous samplings throughout the festival
If laid end-to-end the number of wine glasses used during the festival would reach from Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista to the
Disney Cruise Line terminal at Port Canaveral, Fla.
360,000 beer servings, enough to fill the aquariums five times over at Rainforest Café at Disney's Animal Kingdom
More than 500 pounds of watermelon is expected to be tasted at the 3D Disney's Dessert Discovery parties
More than 80,000 servings dished up of the most popular savory item at the 2012 international marketplaces: the Le Cellier Wild Mushroom Beef Filet Mignon with Truffle Butter Sauce from Canada
