December 19, 2025 • 24 mins
On a very special episode of The Theme Park Podcast, the guys talk all things theme park food! They run through their favorite items, restaurants and items they've tried to make on their own.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the theme park Capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcast? Is this
all radio? Why does everything gotta be so messy on
this station?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your host, Dickerman, Jimmy d and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Hey there and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman.
Here there is Jimmy D. I love tresta, lets kick,
and the very hungry caterpillar. Scott Harris.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I I don't know if I told you guys this,
but I've finally put up a Christmas tree this year.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Good for you. Look at you being a grown up.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
It is six boxes high.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Okay, wait, what kind of measurement is that?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Uh well, they're Christmas trees.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Oh it's Christmas trees from Little Demis.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yes, that's not Is that not decor?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Have you guys seen the variety of Chris you can get?
And I wonder if you have this in your setup,
because you can get the regular box like you get
at publics. Then over at Walmart they sell the giant ones.
They sell a box with like the it's like a
bigger box, but insideer like the Christmas trees, like three
times the size of a normal Christmas tree. And then
at Sam's I found you can buy a huge box
of like twenty Christmas trees or thirty. I don't even
(01:20):
know how many's in this giant box.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Uh No, I've only ever gotten just the the OG's.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I'm just I'm just giving you the heads up. Now
there's a lot of varieties now, and they're all the same,
but either bigger or in larger quantities.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
The other day I went to publics, and anyone that
knows me knows that when I go grocery shopping, I
only ever use a basket. Okay, all right, And when
the basket's full, that means I'm done shopping.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Into the trip exactly Bogos you want? What if there's bogos,
then I gotta pack that basket. Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
But as I was going down the aisle that has
the Little Debbie, they're the little Debbie guy was restocking
the shell no Christmas trees. What Yeah, here's.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Seen the display at Sam's.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
It was huge.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Why aren't they just year round?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh they're called zebra cakes the rest of these other.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
No, No, they don't have the green crunchies.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
That's true, they don't. You gotta buy the green countries yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
You just go down the bacon aisle and get the
eye the green crunchy sprinkles.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
But what's to stop me then from just drinking the
green crunchies?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Go for it.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I don't have will power. You're talking to somebody that
went to Taco Bell four days in a row last month.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I want to take you to SAMs with me so
you can see this Christmas tree because they just it's
a giant display of nothing but Christmas trees in huge boxes.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Like, why would you do that to me?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Just show us one of your boxes that you bought.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It's it's in the other room. I would show it
to you. If it wasn't, it wouldn't take me so
long to buy it, because I did buy it was
ten dollars. But it is a giant box of them.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Why would you do you? Guys a few weeks ago
talked about how I like the peak of fitness mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
But it's Christmas trees and it's theme park food and
all these things that are delicious.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
This is very Christmas trees do not count calories in December,
factually correct. And I've eaten a lot of Mickroys.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So all this talk about food. Yes, one member of
the show, despite two members of the show giving all
of these great recommendations of foods that he should go try.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Got me thinking about theme park food.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Who Grimace in the middle here? Yes, hey, this is
a Thanos shirt.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I'll have you know right?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
What is Grimace? Exactly?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Is it? It was a McDonald's guy's milk.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
He's a milkshaker.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I don't know it was he what he was?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
No, he's a Pooh shaped Thanos.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
He was originally a heel when he came out. Originally
Grimas was a bad guy. Do you guys know that
I did, Yes, I did not know that first out
of the gate. Then he turned baby face.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So it got me thinking, we don't talk enough about
theme park food.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You think we need to discuss more theme park well,
because it is the holidays, after all.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I remember exactly, I remember that members of this show
have made their own versions of theme park food at home.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
That is true, that Buffalo chicken sandwich from Hollywood Studios
cannot be beat. That thing's dynamite.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
But didn't you make your own version?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Oh yeah, I loved it so much. Yeah, Jimmy made
it too. Buffalo chicken dip from Puppins and there's some
other ingredients that go in with it there.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
So that's what I mean, like you loved an item
so much that you're like, I'm gonna try my own
hand at this.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Sometimes they get it, they knock it out of the park.
There are a few times like sometimes theme park food's terrible,
let's be honest, and other times they just like hit.
And there's like everybody wants to make butter beer because
butter beer is so good when you go to Universal
Studios and it's hard to replicate at home. That buffalo
chicken sandwich is a special item that they have at
Hollywood Studios. Have you ever tried grilled cheese?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Have you ever tried making your own butter beer?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I have?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yes, I have too, And it's like you can get
it kind of close. You're missing the foam is kind
of the part that you can't replicate.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, that's the thing is you might be able to
get your flavors correct, but the consistency the textures will
never be right unless you have that machine. Well, those
two machines.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, you need them both. You do need them both.
You gotta have them both.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And it's funny you talk about, like sometimes you go
to a theme park and like the food. By the way,
have you guys made anything else.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Based off of theme park food? I don't think so.
I think about I think I've thought about making Tonga toast,
and I realized it was far too advance from me,
and I gave up.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I bought the Batu Cookbook because I wanted to make
Ronto roasters. The Ronto roaster you get in the in
the park and the Ronto roaster in the cookbook completely different.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Really, come on, what do we make a cookbook forfeits
off what they have in the park. What are we
doing here?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
It's another version?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh, it's it's But can't you just figure it out?
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah? But I like, I'm sure you could reverse engineer
because it's not a whole lot of ingredients.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's like what a.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Coleslaw and a hot dog and a peeda or wrap?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I mean yeah. But the one thing I think most
of us lack that they have the theme parks is
those deep fat friars. Now, nobody like, it's not the
nineteen eighties anymore, and we don't have deep fat friars
in our home. But in the day people would have
that other countertop. I just idea f daddy.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I just realized I didn't know what Tonga toast was.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Oh, Tonga toast is amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I've never had it.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Oh it's that is a specialty that you can only
get over at the Polynesian at the ConA Cafe. And uh,
it's incredible. It's not even like I don't even know
how they make it. I don't even know what they do.
It's magic.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It is a deep fried banana stuffed sour dough French toast,
dusted with cinnamon sugar.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
But it's like one giant piece, so like imagine it's
like three four inches thick. It's not like a slice
of bread. It's like a hunk of bread.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Hang on, hey, hey go. I googled it and it
was literally slice a loaf of sourdough bread into three
inch slices.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
There you go. It's a monster.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Stuff it with bananas.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And I don't know how you do that. That's the
hard part.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Then you make a batter of eggs, milk, cinnamon, and sugar,
heat some oil.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
They throw that thing at deep that fryer.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I think deep dip the stuffed bread into the batter,
let the excess drip off, and then place it in
the oil.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
It's so good, it's a it's a treat if you
go to ConA cafe.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Actually, Disney has a you are a recipe for the
Tonga toast?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
For the Tonga toast?
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, directly from Disney Park blogs.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
There you go. See you can. You can make it
at home. Sometimes. I still don't think it's gonna be
the same.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Should we try to do this the next time we're
at the Tibo Gazebo?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I mean I can bring over a waffle maker, and
that's uh where we're gonna be.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's not that's not oil. We can't heat oil in that.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I'm sorry. I cook everything on a waffle maker. Wake?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Could we air fry this?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
It's not gonna be the same. You need it. Let's
get a Fridaddy. Let's see if we can go to
Garagehall this weekend and find a Fridaddy.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Should we have gotten Friday still has the original oil
on it? Should we got Fridaddy's on Black Friday?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I don't. I don't think they don't. Are they even
legal to sell anymore to consumers? A deep fat.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Fryer yeah, you can, Yeah, because I remember out and
Brown talking about him on Good Eats.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Okay, I just I don't feel like you can get
one in your home anymore. It's quite the thing. I
don't know how they serve five the eighties of this thing.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Boom Boom, Deep Friar on Amazon right there.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Okay, all right, Fridaddy's still around.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Fridaddy is still around. I can buy one for fifty bucks.
It'll be at my house by eight am.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well, you got to get the grease, and then you
gotta have a way to dispose of the grease. I
think that's another challenge. You gotta go to like behind
the Wendy's and dump it in their fry trap or
their grease trap.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
No, no, no, they have made a product, a powder
that you sprinkle into it it solidifies it.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Oh I have seen that. Actually, that's you're right.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's called fry Away.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah. Okay, but okay, something considered.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You talked about, like how like theme park food. You're like, eh,
it could be kind of hit or miss. I feel
like the rise of Instagram, the parks have stepped their
game up.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I have to agree. I have to agree with you
one percent. It's no longer like terrible Hamburgers. Issue would
get some of the worst hamburgers of your life at
a theme park.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It's not hamburgers hot dogs in Turkey.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
No, it is now we've gotten fancy.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Like you guys haven't gone, but like I, you know,
have been fortunate enough to go to Epic Universe a
couple of times. M hm, and the foods that they
have over there are starting to sprinkle into the other parks. Okay,
it's like the one of the times I went, I
went to the Isle of Burke and they have bread cones.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Oh, and they stuff it with like good stuff, right.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
They stuff it with like mac and cheese in some
kind of protein.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, I mean, sign me up.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
They now have those at Islands of Adventure.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Why not, They're a hot cellar. Who wouldn't want to
buy that?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
So over at the uh Pizza Predatoria okay, where you
can get pizzas if you want surprise surprise, there's the
meatball marin Era bread cone.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Sounds great, or the chicken Alfredo bread cone. I'm gonna say,
Chicken's tough. Sometimes at a theme parks, I'm gonna go meatball, meatball,
It's hard to mess up a meatball's.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Let's be honest, you would get both.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I mean I try. Yeah, I mean if the chicken,
if the chicken Alfredo was a fried chicken, I trust
it more than a grilled chicken. Grilled chicken, I think
at a theme park.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And then and then we talked recently about the addition
of mac and cheese to the Blondies menu.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah. I mean, they're moving up in the world over
there and at Universal, and they have the specialty foods
that coming along all the time. Like I told you guys,
when we were Hollywood Hornites, we got that fancy cupcake
from five Knights of Freddy's. Just because it was designed
a certain way, all the kids had to have it. So,
you know, we got a fourteen dollars cupcake and they're
selling them like crazy. How did you get we got one?
(11:45):
How many? I got it for my daughter?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
How many?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
How many photographs were taken of it?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
There were a few photographs taken, and then we ate
part of it and then we said this is too much.
Icing it through it out, which which caused antep physical pain.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And when you say threw it out, like you threw
it out of the box into your mouth.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, I didn't. Actually it made it to the to
the trash can a fourteen dollar cupcake or whatever it cost.
I don't mariw which was it was a lot?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Would you get the pizza too?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
No, pizza was spaghetti on top?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
No? We only I was curious about it. Don't get
me wrong, but I, for one, at that point of
the night, was too tired to take another step. So
I made her go get the food, and we got
the cupcake. Did not get the pizza spaghetti.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
And I still believe you didn't get the walking taco.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Though it's true, walking taco is delicious.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You didn't get it. How do you know?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I know it's delicious, the walking taco? How do you
go wrong?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Are you just saying that because you know Jimmy and
I have raved about it for two years?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yes, yes, it's true.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I could really go for some cool ranch doritos right now.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So if they had Beria this year.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Whose good that is? I don't know what that is?
So Scott, Yes, I've made it known in this show
that my favorite food at a theme park and it's
I haven't had a lot. Not Pigntes. Beignets are a
diet destroyer, No Mickey shapeds own. It is the Buffalo
(13:17):
Chicken grilled cheese at Hollywood Studios. Like you said, we've
made it home. Do you have like a go to
item like this is your new Moro Uno top of
all time theme park food.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
It's the donut from Simpsons Land.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
It's usually can't miss. That doughnut is usually can't miss,
Like as long as it's fresh, it's fire.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It's kind of why I don't think they will ever
get rid of Simpson's Land.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
If you know what I mean, A giant pink donut
sounds like crazy. I mean, who doesn't want that? It's right, Jimmy, Yeah,
me and Jimmy. I think split one once.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Actually, what am I talking about?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I think we shared one once. Jimmy.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I might have eaten seventy five percent.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
There's a chance for one fought over the last quarter percent.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
My favorite food if you go to the Sunshine Terrace
and get the I Lava you doll whip like fountain drink.
It's got h Fanta in it, it's got pop rocks
on it, and it's got I think orange dole whip fantastic.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Well, if we're talking aboutbou it taste every spoonful. If
we're talking about an actual food item, it's the grilled cheese,
the grilled cheese that I sold you on mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Now like I'm actual like savory meal. Like we're not
talking to exactly. Yeah, we're talking like I'm getting a
meal and it is this buffalo chicken grilled cheese.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
And the thing is like that, I love that and
then I've gotten it a couple of times. Now is
if you go to Minyon's Cafe, which I rave about
all the time, because you can.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Or universal grilled cheese. I apologize, I was still a Disney.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Heart right well over no, no, no, no, no. Over there
they have a mac and cheese with uh pork belly
mm hmm. It's delicious.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I believe that. I believe that one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
And you know, we rave about this mobile order. You
order ahead and then you walk to a table, scan
a QR code and they deliver it to you.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
That is the best thing, just to walk up and
have your food ready and you're not fighting with the
whole scene.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
But I do really like the tacos over at Bumblebee Band.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I've never had those, and I've considered them often they're
very good. Jimmy, you said, you said the doul with
the special doll one. Is there a favorite food, food
like a meal type of food that comes to your mind?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Well, not far from there is the spring rolls, And
I love the cheeseburger spring rolls.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I've always wanted to try those.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah, the pizza one was good, but the cheeseburger one,
it's not only is it the round beef and then
like the cheddar cheese, but then there's also like I
think it's like almost like special sauce like you would
have on a big Mac, kind of like a thousand
Island dressing kind of thing, and it's just wonderful, so wonderful.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Can I post one more question?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Do you go? Oka ahead?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Do you guys remember when McDonald's was in the park.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yeah, you could get French fries in front of your land.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, but it was like there was that, And then
I distinctly remembered Annimal Kingdom by Dinosaur.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Just a McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, straight of McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Dinosaur used to be sponsored by McDonalds. That makes sense then,
And if you go into a dinosaur before they close it,
they have red yellow and white pipes. And they have
like like some like chemical elements and those are the
elements to make up ketchup mustard and things.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Right nice? Yes, all right? Can I pose one more
food question? You're real quick, because this one I have
a clear distinct winner in my mind. So these places
always offer like specialty foods throughout the year. You know something,
it's like an item, It's not always available. Is there
is there one that sticks in your mind as like
(17:15):
this was like such a home run that I wish
they offered this year round? So because.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You know I've raved about this place. Is the the
corn dog stand?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yes? Boardwalk?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Boardwalk? Yes, they have as of right now when when
we are recording this, they have a a new item. Okay,
that what I want to try, and I think Jimmy
would want to try.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
No, I definitely wouldn't. Probably I am guessing.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
It is a salmon dog fack.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Gross.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah, I might get off of the train.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
There, salmon and cream cheese, fried and tempura batter drizzled
with saracha mayo and UNAUGI sauce talked with sesame street uh,
sesame seeds.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Okay, never mind, I'm back in.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, there's no hot dog in there. It's just salmon.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It's salmon, yes.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Dude, it's it's Asian food on a stick. It is
going to be delicious.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
If I had one in front of you, would you
take a bite?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I don't think if you didn't know what it was,
would you take a bite?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I could. I could because one time I actually ate
something I didn't like.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
See, that's the that's the thing. Like I have talked
to people and they're like, what do you like? Like what? Like?
Like what restaurants you go to? Just like I don't
like half of your own go to a restaurant. I
will find a stand and just get something and that
will be enough. Like I've never I've gone to theme
park so many times. The amount of actual sit down
restaurants that I have eaten at at a theme park
(18:56):
is very few.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Yeah, like, I've eaten that a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I've never like, I've never sat down and eaten inside
of any of the Harry Potter restaurants.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Oh you're missing out. They're pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I actually had lunch with Diggerman at one of those hands.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
True like Mythos, the restaurant that has won dozens of Awards.
Never stepped foot in that restaurant.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
It's pretty good. I eight there with Megan Fox remember that.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Jimmy Yeah, and Brian Austin Green. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I mean they weren't anywhere near us, but we didn't
see them near us.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
But it's like like to me, like, if in this
is just my experience, if I'm at a park, I'm
just gonna like walk by, Oh, I'm gonna grab something
right now, and then we're gonna keep going. Yeah, it's
kind of the same my thought process on shows, like
I just want to be doing something.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I will tell you the item that is no longer offered,
but we got and we absolutely loved and it may
have a lot to do with like the scenery and everything.
But in Mexico, you guys, remember I got that special
anniversary cake. Was it fiftieth anniversary? Is that what it was?
It was the Mexican pavilion made out of chocolate and
inside was moose and it was surrounded by cinnamon ice cream.
(20:08):
Oh wow, just incredible looking. It was beautiful. It was
an iridescent chocolate and it was it was like forty
Bucks dessert. But it was so good and we maybe
ate a quarter of it because it was just so much.
I hope they bring it back at some point because
it was it was special. I mean, they'd have a
special mold made just to make this thing.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I know, a thing that disappointed me though, And I
had to look this up and it was the last
time I went to Epic Universe. Oh and it's a
it's a skewer that they have, Okay, a grilled hot
dog in rice cake, wrapped in cheese crust with a
(20:49):
joli and barbecue sauce.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
It does sound good when you say it.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Just it just didn't That's what I thought. Didn't hit
just did not. Yeah, it was very greasy.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
So do you think if you went back and had
it again it might be good? Because remember you remember
my experience at the America Pavilion where I loved that
barbecue burger the first time. The next time wasn't as good.
The last time it was terrible.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I'm like, I'm done out distinct possibility that that is
the case I could have And I have never been
like I will swear off a thing. It's just if
I ever go back, I just want to keep trying
new things, like I've never doubled up when i've gone there,
Like when I was there a couple of months ago,
I went to the Pizza Moon restaurant. Best theme park
(21:36):
pizza I think I've ever had, really, Yes, And the
thing I will say about that, it's meant to be shared,
just a pro tip.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Is it like lazy Moon? Are they trying to do
like a lazy mood?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
No? No, No, it's just you think it's not a it's
a a little bit bigger than a normal personal pan pizza.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Okay, all right, so it's Jimmy size perfect. Yeah, man,
it just sounds great to me.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
They now offer to go boxes.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Smart that is that is that is smart. That is
that is the way to go because you're gonna have
too much pizza.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
And you can eat pizza cold, so absolutely, oh you
can do you guys, Remember when I was stuck inside
of a hotel when a hurricane hit last year, I.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Walked down to the Cabana Bay food court and got
a pizza and had it for breakfast the next day.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
You can't go wrong with cold pizza.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
And the other thing is like even the resorts have
really good.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Foods too, That's true. I mean sometimes, like like we
mentioned the Tonga toast earlier. The Tonga Toast is you
can only get it at one resort in all of Disney,
and it's a small, tiny little restaurant. In the resort.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
There is a there's a press turkey sandwich at the
pool bar at the Contemporary Fantastic I've had.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I had that. That was great.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Yeah, that's when it came out and you hung out
with me at the hotel when I.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Was in very quickly. Do they offer anything special at
the the Port Orleans hotels?
Speaker 4 (23:08):
They do.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
They do Vicky shaped what are they? They fry them
in front of you and then cover them in a
powdered sugar. You also have the option to have them
covered in like chocolate and things like that, But I
don't recommend it. If you're on any sort of a diet.
It will actually end your diet for the next decade.
And not not just a year, not not not a month,
(23:30):
not a week. You will have a decade just lost
to Beignet.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And can you confirm or not if in like September
October they do like a haunted mansion version of said
items with a different kind of drizzle on top.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
It's probably possibly.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
And there's like a filling inside of them.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, best filling five k to try and knock off
some of that beignet. But I didn't obviously do that.
My child did, but not me. I was five k.
Mention's really good. I bet you they are delicious. I'm
not going down that road again. You make that mistake once, friend,
all right, good back, yes gott. If people want to
(24:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is the Theme Park Podcast. Wait podcast? Is this
all radio? Why does everything gotta be so messy on
this station?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your host, Dickerman, Jimmy d and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Hey there and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman.
Here there is Jimmy D. I love tresta, lets kick,
and the very hungry caterpillar. Scott Harris.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I I don't know if I told you guys this,
but I've finally put up a Christmas tree this year.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Good for you. Look at you being a grown up.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
It is six boxes high.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Okay, wait, what kind of measurement is that?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Uh well, they're Christmas trees.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Oh it's Christmas trees from Little Demis.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yes, that's not Is that not decor?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Have you guys seen the variety of Chris you can get?
And I wonder if you have this in your setup,
because you can get the regular box like you get
at publics. Then over at Walmart they sell the giant ones.
They sell a box with like the it's like a
bigger box, but insideer like the Christmas trees, like three
times the size of a normal Christmas tree. And then
at Sam's I found you can buy a huge box
of like twenty Christmas trees or thirty. I don't even
(01:20):
know how many's in this giant box.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Uh No, I've only ever gotten just the the OG's.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I'm just I'm just giving you the heads up. Now
there's a lot of varieties now, and they're all the same,
but either bigger or in larger quantities.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
The other day I went to publics, and anyone that
knows me knows that when I go grocery shopping, I
only ever use a basket. Okay, all right, And when
the basket's full, that means I'm done shopping.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Into the trip exactly Bogos you want? What if there's bogos,
then I gotta pack that basket. Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
But as I was going down the aisle that has
the Little Debbie, they're the little Debbie guy was restocking
the shell no Christmas trees. What Yeah, here's.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Seen the display at Sam's.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
It was huge.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Why aren't they just year round?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh they're called zebra cakes the rest of these other.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
No, No, they don't have the green crunchies.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
That's true, they don't. You gotta buy the green countries yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
You just go down the bacon aisle and get the
eye the green crunchy sprinkles.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
But what's to stop me then from just drinking the
green crunchies?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Go for it.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I don't have will power. You're talking to somebody that
went to Taco Bell four days in a row last month.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I want to take you to SAMs with me so
you can see this Christmas tree because they just it's
a giant display of nothing but Christmas trees in huge boxes.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Like, why would you do that to me?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Just show us one of your boxes that you bought.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It's it's in the other room. I would show it
to you. If it wasn't, it wouldn't take me so
long to buy it, because I did buy it was
ten dollars. But it is a giant box of them.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Why would you do you? Guys a few weeks ago
talked about how I like the peak of fitness mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
But it's Christmas trees and it's theme park food and
all these things that are delicious.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
This is very Christmas trees do not count calories in December,
factually correct. And I've eaten a lot of Mickroys.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So all this talk about food. Yes, one member of
the show, despite two members of the show giving all
of these great recommendations of foods that he should go try.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Got me thinking about theme park food.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Who Grimace in the middle here? Yes, hey, this is
a Thanos shirt.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I'll have you know right?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
What is Grimace? Exactly?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Is it? It was a McDonald's guy's milk.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
He's a milkshaker.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I don't know it was he what he was?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
No, he's a Pooh shaped Thanos.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
He was originally a heel when he came out. Originally
Grimas was a bad guy. Do you guys know that
I did, Yes, I did not know that first out
of the gate. Then he turned baby face.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So it got me thinking, we don't talk enough about
theme park food.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You think we need to discuss more theme park well,
because it is the holidays, after all.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I remember exactly, I remember that members of this show
have made their own versions of theme park food at home.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
That is true, that Buffalo chicken sandwich from Hollywood Studios
cannot be beat. That thing's dynamite.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
But didn't you make your own version?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Oh yeah, I loved it so much. Yeah, Jimmy made
it too. Buffalo chicken dip from Puppins and there's some
other ingredients that go in with it there.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
So that's what I mean, like you loved an item
so much that you're like, I'm gonna try my own
hand at this.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Sometimes they get it, they knock it out of the park.
There are a few times like sometimes theme park food's terrible,
let's be honest, and other times they just like hit.
And there's like everybody wants to make butter beer because
butter beer is so good when you go to Universal
Studios and it's hard to replicate at home. That buffalo
chicken sandwich is a special item that they have at
Hollywood Studios. Have you ever tried grilled cheese?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Have you ever tried making your own butter beer?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I have?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yes, I have too, And it's like you can get
it kind of close. You're missing the foam is kind
of the part that you can't replicate.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, that's the thing is you might be able to
get your flavors correct, but the consistency the textures will
never be right unless you have that machine. Well, those
two machines.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, you need them both. You do need them both.
You gotta have them both.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
And it's funny you talk about, like sometimes you go
to a theme park and like the food. By the way,
have you guys made anything else.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Based off of theme park food? I don't think so.
I think about I think I've thought about making Tonga toast,
and I realized it was far too advance from me,
and I gave up.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I bought the Batu Cookbook because I wanted to make
Ronto roasters. The Ronto roaster you get in the in
the park and the Ronto roaster in the cookbook completely different.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Really, come on, what do we make a cookbook forfeits
off what they have in the park. What are we
doing here?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
It's another version?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh, it's it's But can't you just figure it out?
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah? But I like, I'm sure you could reverse engineer
because it's not a whole lot of ingredients.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's like what a.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Coleslaw and a hot dog and a peeda or wrap?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I mean yeah. But the one thing I think most
of us lack that they have the theme parks is
those deep fat friars. Now, nobody like, it's not the
nineteen eighties anymore, and we don't have deep fat friars
in our home. But in the day people would have
that other countertop. I just idea f daddy.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I just realized I didn't know what Tonga toast was.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Oh, Tonga toast is amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I've never had it.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Oh it's that is a specialty that you can only
get over at the Polynesian at the ConA Cafe. And uh,
it's incredible. It's not even like I don't even know
how they make it. I don't even know what they do.
It's magic.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It is a deep fried banana stuffed sour dough French toast,
dusted with cinnamon sugar.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
But it's like one giant piece, so like imagine it's
like three four inches thick. It's not like a slice
of bread. It's like a hunk of bread.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Hang on, hey, hey go. I googled it and it
was literally slice a loaf of sourdough bread into three
inch slices.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
There you go. It's a monster.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Stuff it with bananas.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And I don't know how you do that. That's the
hard part.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Then you make a batter of eggs, milk, cinnamon, and sugar,
heat some oil.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
They throw that thing at deep that fryer.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I think deep dip the stuffed bread into the batter,
let the excess drip off, and then place it in
the oil.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
It's so good, it's a it's a treat if you
go to ConA cafe.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Actually, Disney has a you are a recipe for the
Tonga toast?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
For the Tonga toast?
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, directly from Disney Park blogs.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
There you go. See you can. You can make it
at home. Sometimes. I still don't think it's gonna be
the same.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Should we try to do this the next time we're
at the Tibo Gazebo?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I mean I can bring over a waffle maker, and
that's uh where we're gonna be.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's not that's not oil. We can't heat oil in that.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I'm sorry. I cook everything on a waffle maker. Wake?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Could we air fry this?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
It's not gonna be the same. You need it. Let's
get a Fridaddy. Let's see if we can go to
Garagehall this weekend and find a Fridaddy.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Should we have gotten Friday still has the original oil
on it? Should we got Fridaddy's on Black Friday?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I don't. I don't think they don't. Are they even
legal to sell anymore to consumers? A deep fat.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Fryer yeah, you can, Yeah, because I remember out and
Brown talking about him on Good Eats.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Okay, I just I don't feel like you can get
one in your home anymore. It's quite the thing. I
don't know how they serve five the eighties of this thing.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Boom Boom, Deep Friar on Amazon right there.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Okay, all right, Fridaddy's still around.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Fridaddy is still around. I can buy one for fifty bucks.
It'll be at my house by eight am.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well, you got to get the grease, and then you
gotta have a way to dispose of the grease. I
think that's another challenge. You gotta go to like behind
the Wendy's and dump it in their fry trap or
their grease trap.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
No, no, no, they have made a product, a powder
that you sprinkle into it it solidifies it.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Oh I have seen that. Actually, that's you're right.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's called fry Away.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah. Okay, but okay, something considered.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You talked about, like how like theme park food. You're like, eh,
it could be kind of hit or miss. I feel
like the rise of Instagram, the parks have stepped their
game up.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I have to agree. I have to agree with you
one percent. It's no longer like terrible Hamburgers. Issue would
get some of the worst hamburgers of your life at
a theme park.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It's not hamburgers hot dogs in Turkey.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
No, it is now we've gotten fancy.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Like you guys haven't gone, but like I, you know,
have been fortunate enough to go to Epic Universe a
couple of times. M hm, and the foods that they
have over there are starting to sprinkle into the other parks. Okay,
it's like the one of the times I went, I
went to the Isle of Burke and they have bread cones.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Oh, and they stuff it with like good stuff, right.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
They stuff it with like mac and cheese in some
kind of protein.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, I mean, sign me up.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
They now have those at Islands of Adventure.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Why not, They're a hot cellar. Who wouldn't want to
buy that?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
So over at the uh Pizza Predatoria okay, where you
can get pizzas if you want surprise surprise, there's the
meatball marin Era bread cone.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Sounds great, or the chicken Alfredo bread cone. I'm gonna say,
Chicken's tough. Sometimes at a theme parks, I'm gonna go meatball, meatball,
It's hard to mess up a meatball's.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Let's be honest, you would get both.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I mean I try. Yeah, I mean if the chicken,
if the chicken Alfredo was a fried chicken, I trust
it more than a grilled chicken. Grilled chicken, I think
at a theme park.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And then and then we talked recently about the addition
of mac and cheese to the Blondies menu.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah. I mean, they're moving up in the world over
there and at Universal, and they have the specialty foods
that coming along all the time. Like I told you guys,
when we were Hollywood Hornites, we got that fancy cupcake
from five Knights of Freddy's. Just because it was designed
a certain way, all the kids had to have it. So,
you know, we got a fourteen dollars cupcake and they're
selling them like crazy. How did you get we got one?
(11:45):
How many? I got it for my daughter?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
How many?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
How many photographs were taken of it?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
There were a few photographs taken, and then we ate
part of it and then we said this is too much.
Icing it through it out, which which caused antep physical pain.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And when you say threw it out, like you threw
it out of the box into your mouth.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, I didn't. Actually it made it to the to
the trash can a fourteen dollar cupcake or whatever it cost.
I don't mariw which was it was a lot?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Would you get the pizza too?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
No, pizza was spaghetti on top?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
No? We only I was curious about it. Don't get
me wrong, but I, for one, at that point of
the night, was too tired to take another step. So
I made her go get the food, and we got
the cupcake. Did not get the pizza spaghetti.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
And I still believe you didn't get the walking taco.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Though it's true, walking taco is delicious.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You didn't get it. How do you know?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I know it's delicious, the walking taco? How do you
go wrong?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Are you just saying that because you know Jimmy and
I have raved about it for two years?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yes, yes, it's true.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I could really go for some cool ranch doritos right now.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So if they had Beria this year.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Whose good that is? I don't know what that is?
So Scott, Yes, I've made it known in this show
that my favorite food at a theme park and it's
I haven't had a lot. Not Pigntes. Beignets are a
diet destroyer, No Mickey shapeds own. It is the Buffalo
(13:17):
Chicken grilled cheese at Hollywood Studios. Like you said, we've
made it home. Do you have like a go to
item like this is your new Moro Uno top of
all time theme park food.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
It's the donut from Simpsons Land.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
It's usually can't miss. That doughnut is usually can't miss,
Like as long as it's fresh, it's fire.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It's kind of why I don't think they will ever
get rid of Simpson's Land.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
If you know what I mean, A giant pink donut
sounds like crazy. I mean, who doesn't want that? It's right, Jimmy, Yeah,
me and Jimmy. I think split one once.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Actually, what am I talking about?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I think we shared one once. Jimmy.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I might have eaten seventy five percent.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
There's a chance for one fought over the last quarter percent.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
My favorite food if you go to the Sunshine Terrace
and get the I Lava you doll whip like fountain drink.
It's got h Fanta in it, it's got pop rocks
on it, and it's got I think orange dole whip fantastic.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Well, if we're talking aboutbou it taste every spoonful. If
we're talking about an actual food item, it's the grilled cheese,
the grilled cheese that I sold you on mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Now like I'm actual like savory meal. Like we're not
talking to exactly. Yeah, we're talking like I'm getting a
meal and it is this buffalo chicken grilled cheese.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
And the thing is like that, I love that and
then I've gotten it a couple of times. Now is
if you go to Minyon's Cafe, which I rave about
all the time, because you can.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Or universal grilled cheese. I apologize, I was still a Disney.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Heart right well over no, no, no, no, no. Over there
they have a mac and cheese with uh pork belly
mm hmm. It's delicious.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I believe that. I believe that one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
And you know, we rave about this mobile order. You
order ahead and then you walk to a table, scan
a QR code and they deliver it to you.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
That is the best thing, just to walk up and
have your food ready and you're not fighting with the
whole scene.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
But I do really like the tacos over at Bumblebee Band.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I've never had those, and I've considered them often they're
very good. Jimmy, you said, you said the doul with
the special doll one. Is there a favorite food, food
like a meal type of food that comes to your mind?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Well, not far from there is the spring rolls, And
I love the cheeseburger spring rolls.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I've always wanted to try those.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah, the pizza one was good, but the cheeseburger one,
it's not only is it the round beef and then
like the cheddar cheese, but then there's also like I
think it's like almost like special sauce like you would
have on a big Mac, kind of like a thousand
Island dressing kind of thing, and it's just wonderful, so wonderful.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Can I post one more question?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Do you go? Oka ahead?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Do you guys remember when McDonald's was in the park.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yeah, you could get French fries in front of your land.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, but it was like there was that, And then
I distinctly remembered Annimal Kingdom by Dinosaur.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Just a McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, straight of McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Dinosaur used to be sponsored by McDonalds. That makes sense then,
And if you go into a dinosaur before they close it,
they have red yellow and white pipes. And they have
like like some like chemical elements and those are the
elements to make up ketchup mustard and things.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Right nice? Yes, all right? Can I pose one more
food question? You're real quick, because this one I have
a clear distinct winner in my mind. So these places
always offer like specialty foods throughout the year. You know something,
it's like an item, It's not always available. Is there
is there one that sticks in your mind as like
(17:15):
this was like such a home run that I wish
they offered this year round? So because.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You know I've raved about this place. Is the the
corn dog stand?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yes? Boardwalk?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Boardwalk? Yes, they have as of right now when when
we are recording this, they have a a new item. Okay,
that what I want to try, and I think Jimmy
would want to try.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
No, I definitely wouldn't. Probably I am guessing.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
It is a salmon dog fack.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Gross.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah, I might get off of the train.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
There, salmon and cream cheese, fried and tempura batter drizzled
with saracha mayo and UNAUGI sauce talked with sesame street uh,
sesame seeds.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Okay, never mind, I'm back in.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, there's no hot dog in there. It's just salmon.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It's salmon, yes.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Dude, it's it's Asian food on a stick. It is
going to be delicious.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
If I had one in front of you, would you
take a bite?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I don't think if you didn't know what it was,
would you take a bite?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I could. I could because one time I actually ate
something I didn't like.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
See, that's the that's the thing. Like I have talked
to people and they're like, what do you like? Like what? Like?
Like what restaurants you go to? Just like I don't
like half of your own go to a restaurant. I
will find a stand and just get something and that
will be enough. Like I've never I've gone to theme
park so many times. The amount of actual sit down
restaurants that I have eaten at at a theme park
(18:56):
is very few.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Yeah, like, I've eaten that a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I've never like, I've never sat down and eaten inside
of any of the Harry Potter restaurants.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Oh you're missing out. They're pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I actually had lunch with Diggerman at one of those hands.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
True like Mythos, the restaurant that has won dozens of Awards.
Never stepped foot in that restaurant.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
It's pretty good. I eight there with Megan Fox remember that.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Jimmy Yeah, and Brian Austin Green. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I mean they weren't anywhere near us, but we didn't
see them near us.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
But it's like like to me, like, if in this
is just my experience, if I'm at a park, I'm
just gonna like walk by, Oh, I'm gonna grab something
right now, and then we're gonna keep going. Yeah, it's
kind of the same my thought process on shows, like
I just want to be doing something.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I will tell you the item that is no longer offered,
but we got and we absolutely loved and it may
have a lot to do with like the scenery and everything.
But in Mexico, you guys, remember I got that special
anniversary cake. Was it fiftieth anniversary? Is that what it was?
It was the Mexican pavilion made out of chocolate and
inside was moose and it was surrounded by cinnamon ice cream.
(20:08):
Oh wow, just incredible looking. It was beautiful. It was
an iridescent chocolate and it was it was like forty
Bucks dessert. But it was so good and we maybe
ate a quarter of it because it was just so much.
I hope they bring it back at some point because
it was it was special. I mean, they'd have a
special mold made just to make this thing.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I know, a thing that disappointed me though, And I
had to look this up and it was the last
time I went to Epic Universe. Oh and it's a
it's a skewer that they have, Okay, a grilled hot
dog in rice cake, wrapped in cheese crust with a
(20:49):
joli and barbecue sauce.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
It does sound good when you say it.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Just it just didn't That's what I thought. Didn't hit
just did not. Yeah, it was very greasy.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
So do you think if you went back and had
it again it might be good? Because remember you remember
my experience at the America Pavilion where I loved that
barbecue burger the first time. The next time wasn't as good.
The last time it was terrible.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I'm like, I'm done out distinct possibility that that is
the case I could have And I have never been
like I will swear off a thing. It's just if
I ever go back, I just want to keep trying
new things, like I've never doubled up when i've gone there,
Like when I was there a couple of months ago,
I went to the Pizza Moon restaurant. Best theme park
(21:36):
pizza I think I've ever had, really, Yes, And the
thing I will say about that, it's meant to be shared,
just a pro tip.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Is it like lazy Moon? Are they trying to do
like a lazy mood?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
No? No, No, it's just you think it's not a it's
a a little bit bigger than a normal personal pan pizza.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Okay, all right, so it's Jimmy size perfect. Yeah, man,
it just sounds great to me.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
They now offer to go boxes.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Smart that is that is that is smart. That is
that is the way to go because you're gonna have
too much pizza.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
And you can eat pizza cold, so absolutely, oh you
can do you guys, Remember when I was stuck inside
of a hotel when a hurricane hit last year, I.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Walked down to the Cabana Bay food court and got
a pizza and had it for breakfast the next day.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
You can't go wrong with cold pizza.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
And the other thing is like even the resorts have
really good.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Foods too, That's true. I mean sometimes, like like we
mentioned the Tonga toast earlier. The Tonga Toast is you
can only get it at one resort in all of Disney,
and it's a small, tiny little restaurant. In the resort.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
There is a there's a press turkey sandwich at the
pool bar at the Contemporary Fantastic I've had.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I had that. That was great.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Yeah, that's when it came out and you hung out
with me at the hotel when I.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Was in very quickly. Do they offer anything special at
the the Port Orleans hotels?
Speaker 4 (23:08):
They do.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
They do Vicky shaped what are they? They fry them
in front of you and then cover them in a
powdered sugar. You also have the option to have them
covered in like chocolate and things like that, But I
don't recommend it. If you're on any sort of a diet.
It will actually end your diet for the next decade.
And not not just a year, not not not a month,
(23:30):
not a week. You will have a decade just lost
to Beignet.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And can you confirm or not if in like September
October they do like a haunted mansion version of said
items with a different kind of drizzle on top.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
It's probably possibly.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
And there's like a filling inside of them.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, best filling five k to try and knock off
some of that beignet. But I didn't obviously do that.
My child did, but not me. I was five k.
Mention's really good. I bet you they are delicious. I'm
not going down that road again. You make that mistake once, friend,
all right, good back, yes gott. If people want to
(24:12):
find this on social media to get all the latest
delicious foods that they can have at theme parks, where
can they go?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
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Show traditionally comes to you live from the Laurencampbellrelers dot com,
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I am Dickerman. Until next week, We'll see you out
at the parks.
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