The Case of the Hollywood Themed Lands: And the Rest.....aurants

[00:00:00] Welcome to the Supreme Resort, Land V World, a podcast about Disneyland and Walt Disney World and which is the Supreme Resort? Each episode we will discuss and explore each resort ride by ride, land by land, restaurant by restaurant to determine which is better.

[00:00:34] I'm your host Jimmy and thank you for joining me on this quest to help the greater good of humanity answer this long elusive question which is better Disneyland or Walt Disney World. Joining me as always is Dan.

[00:00:45] Hold on, let me take the bandit off my ear. Hi, I'm Dan. I'm here. Ready to go. And we also have Eric. Hi Eric. I thought Dan just kind of fell asleep and like drooled on his pillow and got random garbage stuck on his face. Well that too.

[00:01:01] Ear bandage. Well welcome guys, welcome to Supreme Resort. We are back. We are back to a versus episode somewhat proper versus episode some time ago. We are dressed in tuxedos so it is proper. Black tie, bow ties and etc.

[00:01:19] Some time ago we recorded an episode where we were comparing the Hollywood themed streets is how it started. And as we were doing that episode, like shut us down. These are lands. These are not just streets. These are proper lands.

[00:01:34] So we've kind of systematically gone through and argued each thing so that we can do a full which is better land episode with Natalie and May. Before we do that, we have to cover everything in the land. This episode is And The Rest Deronts. Yeah.

[00:01:51] I got it right there. Yeah. And The Rest Deronts. That's good. So we're going to be covering that today. And yeah, that's basically it. I don't have any news. I mean, I'm sure there's a lot to talk about.

[00:02:04] Hungry Bear restaurant is closed, but let's not make it news. Disneyland might go on strike. Disneyland might go on strike. But again, let's try not to timestamp this episode as much as possible. Although I will say these restaurants, the menus do change from time to time

[00:02:21] from some of these, right? I wouldn't say seasonal, but they do change from time to time. Oh yeah. And some are pretty consistent which we'll get into. You mentioned Hungry Bear. Have you heard the news with what's going on there? Nice. No, go ahead, Dan.

[00:02:38] I would like to hear where you stand. Thank you. It is going to be a barbecue restaurant. We don't know what that means to what extent. We don't know if it's like they serve you sloppy barbecue on a bun

[00:02:55] or if it's like gnawing meat off of a bone or what style of barbecue it will be. But it's still going to be called the Hungry Bear restaurant. I believe it's the Hungry Bear barbecue restaurant, right? There we go. It's the barbecue jamboree. Oh, barbecue jamboree. That's great.

[00:03:15] Although they could call it the Hungry Barbecue. They could. They could. I mean, there was. Well, some time ago, the Big Thunder Mountain Barbecue, which had actual barbecue food, yeah, it was good. It was actual good food. So there's speculation as to like whether that is possibly

[00:03:39] what's going to be happening there. There's a whole lot of backstage behind, I mean, within the bounds of Disneyland having not a lot of space. But there's a fair amount of backstage behind Hungry Bear. So if they were inclined to do actual,

[00:03:55] you know, gnawing the flesh off of a bone, cooked animal, you know, then there is the possibility for it. I suspect it'll just be sloppy barbecue sauce based things on buns, which is also fine. They have an opportunity at Epcot. They have a restaurant, the Coral Reef restaurant,

[00:04:20] where you're eating fish whilst looking at fish. Do you think this restaurant, since you're looking at Splash Mountain, looking at all the critters, you could be eating critters while looking at critters? You're eating frogs. Frogs legs, the frog leg is close enough to New Orleans.

[00:04:36] Gator. Gator tails really good. I didn't consider that angle and I both hope they play it up and hope that they don't. I think there's hints in the language that it could explore different types of barbecue, like different regions of barbecue. Mustard sauce in there.

[00:05:01] Mustard little mayonnaise base, little vinegar base, which also leads me in the direction of it could just be sloppy mess on a bun, which again, not complaining. I think they're doing a better job at that for the most part. This episode, not withstanding. So, yeah.

[00:05:19] Yeah, it's I forgot what I was going to say, but that sounds wonderful. So before we get straight into the show and the restaurants, do you guys have anything else you want to chat about? Oh, I remember what I was going to say.

[00:05:36] Will anything on the menu have the word brayer in it? That seems. I mean, you know, like as a callback to the splash mountain just to appease. That's a good question. Brayer Fox's rabbit stew. Yeah, there you go. That'd be great. You finally got it.

[00:05:57] That's why it's close. They finally caught it. I see. Oh, that is a really good question. I think there will. Be maybe a special sauce called like rare sauce or barbecue sauce, brayer. I think that it'll they'll they'll if they do it,

[00:06:20] they're going to find the find the line. They're going to get their legal team together and they're going to type stuff into chat GPT because, you know, no one wants to work anymore. That's right. And they'll figure out. A happy medium, a Goldilocks scenario, if you will.

[00:06:43] I will where they they have just enough just enough of that to make certain people go. I get it. And other people go, well, why'd you tear down to flash? I'm not everyone who loves Splash Mountain has a southern accent. I was doing an impression of my sister.

[00:07:04] OK, OK, by the way, Dan's sister is the one who determined that the appropriate order in which to ride when to the poo and Splash Mountain is to then splash. OK, so let's move on to the show. The show episode today and the restaurants and Hollywood themed lands

[00:07:27] that is Sunset Boulevard versus Hollywood land. Am I getting that correct? Yes. OK, I'm only thinking twice because I always get confused between the two. But I know that Walt Disney World is Sunset Boulevard because I checked it five times this time.

[00:07:46] I just can't remember exactly if it's. It's Sunset Boulevard is a land at Hollywood Studios for that to be the case. And at Disney World, or excuse me, Disneyland, excuse me, it is called Hollywood Land. I mean, I'm in full agreement.

[00:08:05] So it's not it's not named after the street. That is correct. It's Hollywood Land and Sunset Boulevard. Those are the two lands. And inside those lands, we have counter service inside the lands. There is no proper. What do they call that?

[00:08:25] Dining, the sit down turnaround, pick a bell, cotton dining that place. The table service. There's no table service restaurants in either of these lands. There is only counter service. There are some mobile orders, which we can talk about at Hollywood Studios. There are six at Disneyland.

[00:08:42] There are five proper on the website. We can talk about the things that are on the website that are on the app. Before we get into it, Dan is going to or excuse me, Eric is going to argue for Sunset Boulevard at Disney Hollywood Studios

[00:08:59] because it came first. He will go first. And if I like something that Eric says about this, one of these restaurants, you will hear this sound. Eric, please explain. That is the opening to the overture to the movie Sunset Boulevard. Nice.

[00:09:24] Ready for my close up, Mr. DeMille, that whole thing? Yes. By the way, one of the favorite movies. Wonderful. Wonderful. Listen to scraping the fault and drive. Dan Dan is going to argue for Disney, Disney California Adventure and Hollywood Land restaurants.

[00:09:41] If he says something I like, you will hear this sound. When did animals style burgers start? That's right. Oh, you'll in and out. That's a variation on the theme. When I very often will just have a heel house or say hi, I'm Hill Houser when doing.

[00:09:59] Tom, you are also. There it is. Right. And I'm glad Eric always has it ready to go. Do you do you also have someone ready to say hello to us? Just in case. Thank you. Sure does. I got to fix that so it doesn't double.

[00:10:16] But hey, there we go. So it's it's a variation of theme where it's it's, you know, an agency of Hill Houser where he's he's visiting in and out. By the way, one of his more delightful episodes, he is tickled by the secret menu. Animal style.

[00:10:36] And and it also references the fact that I am still bewildered that they don't have in California Adventure. Oh my God, I never thought about that. Why don't they have it in and out of California Adventure? The most obvious thing. Or a rubies diner on the pier.

[00:10:58] Something, but I mean, like, come on. Yeah, it's a good point. Tom, you are also. Hello. OK, so let's get into this. Ultimately, boys, I I I don't know which I like better. I don't think any of these restaurants are particularly my go to

[00:11:16] like in general, when I go to Hollywood Studios, I rarely, if ever eat on Sunset Boulevard. Oh, when I go to DCA, I rarely, if ever eat on a Hollywood land. I just don't. None of it really gets me excited.

[00:11:34] None of it really feels like a taste good. So I'm not really sure which is better. And I don't want to say there are six at Hollywood Studios, and therefore they have more choices. I think again, it comes down to size.

[00:11:46] And then, of course, there's some annexed things that we can talk about and other other deals. So I genuinely don't know. I think we have some analog a little bit. We've kind of gone through and figure out that this is compared to that, et cetera.

[00:11:57] We'll go through all those before we get into all that. Genuine do not have an opinion here. So I am curious to see ultimately what the three of us decide is better. But before we do that, let's get into a little bit of the history of these restaurants.

[00:12:10] What was there before? Things that we can't have today that we could have in the yesteryear. And because Eric, Hollywood Studios, Hollywood themed land went first, you go first. All right. Fantastic. Well, as we've discussed in some of the earlier episodes about Sunset Boulevard, when

[00:12:32] when MGM opened up, it was not it did not have this street at all. You walked down Hollywood Boulevard, which is the main entrance street. It's the main street of the park then and now. And once you got to the end of the street,

[00:12:51] you had the Brown Derby on your right and you had the animation courtyard that was there because the animation building was there. But there was really the only other place to go was to the Great Movie Ride or down the street

[00:13:06] toward what is now the Star Wars Launch Bay. And at the time was the entrance to the tram tour. When Disney decided to expand the park fairly quickly, so the park opens in 1989 in 92, they're gearing up for the Tower of Terror that opens in 1994.

[00:13:28] So they open up this street and they populate it with a bunch of buildings. And we've talked about some of those buildings in the intro episode. We'll probably round back to a lot of that when we and all of the different design influences

[00:13:40] from around Hollywood area when we get to the final land review. But essentially, most as you head down that street, most of the food is going to be on your left. We're not going to like Jimmy mentioned. Well, I guess Jimmy hasn't mentioned it yet.

[00:13:58] This was in our planning. We're going to skip some of the smaller carts because they're not particularly themed or anything like that. Really, all you get on the right hand side is a cart that they sometimes roll out that serves alcoholic drinks

[00:14:12] when the park is really, really busy. And that's right behind the Starbucks. That is the Red Trelle Café. Right for the listener section. This the crux of this episode is going to be based on what is on the website on go.com.

[00:14:28] Not in the app because to Eric's point, they fluctuate, they can move their mobile so they don't technically are not permanent. They're not listed on the website. And Eric, to that point, all of the food is on the left. Yeah, I mean, that's true in Anaheim, too.

[00:14:44] All the food is on the left. Oh, that is fair. Interesting. Interesting. Keep going. Yeah. Well, as you're heading down that street, you will hit what was in 1994 when the area opened up. The the market was then called the Sunset Ranch Market.

[00:15:02] That design has remained pretty consistent over the years. The entire area is designed after the Los Angeles the Los Angeles Farmers Market, which is still in existence. This is in particular the farmers market on third and Fairfax in L.A. This farmers market

[00:15:28] opened up in in July of 1934 and started out as just a place for it, just a literal farmers market. Farmers would come up, they'd throw up a stall there and and sell their produce from their from their trucks, basically that started to as gained in popularity.

[00:15:51] It started to build out and they would build more semi permanent stalls and it has expanded significantly over the years in 1941, they started adding some more permanent buildings for indoor shopping. They added a clock tower, which is still the landmark of the area.

[00:16:09] And it is it is replicated in on Sunset Boulevard here in in Hollywood Studios. The farmers market really is now this massive thing. If you go to their website now, they have they have they break everything up into categories, but you can go grocery shopping.

[00:16:29] You can go to produce markets. There are multiple butchers. There are multiple restaurants, coffee shops, quick service, sit down meals, quick snacks. It's it's just packed with with stuff to do. So it is still a very a very popular place to go.

[00:16:49] And for the list of the actual the actual farmers market in Los Angeles at Fairfax that this particular spot is themed after. Yes, correct. Yes. Dan from what I understand, it's still basically local stuff, right? It's not like Starbucks went in there and built

[00:17:09] a there is a star Pandora Jewelers or anything. Right. No, I mean, there is a Starbucks in there. But I mean, what I'm trying to point out is that like the independent farmer even or independent like sandwich maker or whatever, that's that's still

[00:17:27] part of the essence of it, right? Even as it has taken on more of the corporate, you know. Yeah. And that's what it looks like. I mean, unless some of these are if some of these are changed in their their local L.A. chains, right?

[00:17:41] That sort of idea. And it seems like some of them have expanded to multiple stalls and, you know, some of the more popular places. There's a there's a gourmet pickle place that has two locations now because they've expanded because people seem to like it.

[00:17:57] So yeah, it's it's like that. It it still seems very grassroots, except for coffee, bean and Starbucks. I'm calling it now pickles of the next cupcake in terms of like Oh, food fads. OK. I see it happening. It's going to happen.

[00:18:12] All right. What's the name of this pickle pickle? Oh, I'm sorry. I already lost it because there's so many different things to look at. I'm a pick of that. It is Kailin Kailin and Kailin Pickles. It's owned by owner Scott Kailin. So there you go.

[00:18:33] Named after the guy. So yeah, it's it's all of that kind of stuff here. And that's the in essence, what they're trying to replicate in Hollywood Studios. The early on it was it seems like they just had covered seating and places where you could buy things.

[00:18:52] Then they kind of started building building out named locations and kind of establishing more of an identity like Rosie's All-American Cafe for a while was Rosie's Red Hots. It, you know, all of these places have kind of changed names a few times over the years.

[00:19:08] Anaheim Produce seems to have always been there. You can learn about the Disney Vacation Club, but that's not what we're talking about here today. I would imagine we should do that someday. Best DVC. Oh my God. Oh, I think that's a bracket. I think that's a bracket.

[00:19:25] Next March. There we go. Keeping us keeping us one one more year away from kids menus. Kids menus. Great. Not a threat. But yeah. So. There's there's not a lot. There's not a lot else to say about the the basic history

[00:19:41] of here because it's kind of always been the same thing. They just change up the menus over the years. Suddenly, there's a pin. There's a pin trader stall, you know, the stuff kind of comes comes and goes there. But I think at this point, they're pretty well set

[00:19:54] on the restaurants that they have that we'll get to. And what they're more recently, they've reestablished what each one has. This is a pizza place. This place you can get a sandwich. This place is ice cream. And that's kind of nice.

[00:20:09] My favorite I was just looking through in preparation for the show and at the Anaheim produce, which you were just talking about on the app, one of the items you could buy was whole fruit. And in parentheses, it says plant based. Nice. Oh, those new plant based fruits.

[00:20:29] I think not to be too kind to our corporate overlords, but I'm kind of learning a little bit about how things think about things. And I think that that is more to generate a tag for

[00:20:48] if someone wants to bring up, but that is hilarious at the same time. That's a good point, Dan. My wife said the same thing, but I still thought it was funny. I should point out while we're talking about this,

[00:20:58] there's something that just occurred to me as I was reading through this. The farmers market that we're talking that this is all based on is on third and Fairfax, which is not Sunset Boulevard. But then pulling back the camera a little bit, nothing on Sunset Boulevard

[00:21:13] in Hollywood Studios is from is based on anything actual Sunset Boulevard. Actual Sunset Boulevard. Interesting. I was just talking about the kids menu idea that we keep. We've been talking about this for years. That might. Years now, I know that that and I'm not saying this so much

[00:21:31] because I want it to be as I actually think it might need to be at this point. That might need to be a major event. The kids menus, because we because we've been talking about it for so much for so many.

[00:21:44] Guest judges or guest readers of the menus. I think I think we need to just it needs to be our Olympics. We have guests. We have. There's so many choices. There's so many restaurants. I know, I know.

[00:22:01] We're going to have to figure out how to boil that down in the interest of time here. Yes. This episode, Dan, would you like to give us your history or what was there before, etc. Because like a word weeners has always been there. It's sorry. Every time. Yeah.

[00:22:18] Yeah. Yeah. As many people know, the history of Disney's California adventure, especially in its first iteration is a tragic comedy of errors, let's say. And some time ago, years ago, and oh, by the way,

[00:22:37] the soap opera bistro is going to be covered in the history of Disney Junior Dance Party, so just in case anyone's just like, what the hell? I was clamoring for it. So thank you for bringing it up. There was long ago, Jimmy, do you remember?

[00:22:55] Do you have any do you have any inkling and to and to a memory of what I'm about to talk about because I think we went there like the first time we is it where like where you'd wait in line for Philhar magic?

[00:23:13] Let me draw your memory a little bit. Jari. And this is part of the narrative. Think about California adventure in its first iteration. Yeah. Think about that area by what was Superstar Lemo and think about what might still be there if Superstar Lemo wasn't Superstar Lemo.

[00:23:34] I can't think of it. There was a little place called Hollywood and Dine. Oh, yeah. And that was in what is now the giant giant. The giant. The giant. Yeah, they know. No, it's a giant. Yeah.

[00:23:51] A giant empty warehouse in which they probably store, you know, five employee files known as Studio 12. It is it is gone and it's it's sad and hilarious. And this is why. First of all, let me just remind everybody that California adventure in

[00:24:11] its first iteration, the conceit was that you are not the whole place, but this area. You were in a studio in Hollywood Studios backlit and what you find in back lots sound stages. I finally thought of that word. Thank God.

[00:24:27] And sound stages are of course where you build sets and things are filmed. The only place that they really committed to that idea of sound stages happening. Well, one of the only places was Hollywood and Dine.

[00:24:44] And what sort of movie or TV show might they have been doing there? Food court. It was a studio for a food court. So with I'm just trying to point out within the narrative. It's a commissary. Well, no, hold on.

[00:25:05] Because if you think about it, the whole place is themed. This is supposed to be. OK, go with me here because it gets really good if you if you get there with me. This is a sound stage, right?

[00:25:18] And inside of a sound stage, we would expect there to be a set for some kind of a feature or TV show, right? But then when you go inside of this sound stage, it is in fact a food court.

[00:25:34] Meaning in within the conceit of the theme park itself. The only way this makes sense is if they were making a movie about a food court, which would be the worst movie I ever made by the law. And I'm not saying that that's the angle they took.

[00:25:57] I'm just saying that's the angle that that's that is the following following its own logic down its own logic rabbit hole. That's the only thing that makes sense in terms of why it was supposed to be that.

[00:26:12] So in your narrative, somebody saw Good Burger and said, you know what? There are plenty of fast food opportunities that would make great films. Let's write. Let's make a movie that takes place in the part of the food court where the people eat, not the restaurants.

[00:26:32] Anyway, just a little just a little fun that I had with that. So yeah. So this is there are two things that I want to point out. First of all, stage 12 is an empty building. Yes, presumably there's stuff in it, but you can't do anything in the

[00:26:46] Ark of the Covenant is in there. Yes. Now. And then next to that, which is on the Disneyland app and is also actually there is a water tower that says Hollywood Studios on it. I did not know that for the listener. If you're looking at Monsters, Inc.

[00:27:03] On the right hand side is the Hollywood Lounge, which we'll talk about. And just beyond that is stage 12. Right. And it gets so we'll get into it. And by Saturday, I mean more hilarious because, you know, it's me talking

[00:27:18] inside of this place they had and I'm going to go in order of a dramatic reveal. There was Via Capri, which was a pizza place and just to clear it up. And it was, you know, it was this is all inside of this this place

[00:27:40] to theme it up. They made it look like an old, you know, like a restaurant in LA that has, you know, an unassuming restaurant that's been around for a long time, small place. You know, it's it's hard to explain unless you've actually seen it and been there.

[00:27:59] And just to clarify that they didn't in fact sell pizza because there were no clues in the name or in the decor. They had two giant segments of their menu that said pizza on one side and pizza. So that's that's where we're that's what we're dealing with there.

[00:28:21] There was also the Wilshire Bowl, which was an art deco sort of decor place. What would you imagine they sell at the Wilshire Bowl? Bowls, burgers and chicken soup. Bowls weren't popular back then. I was going to say that at another time.

[00:28:44] I'm looking at pictures of this place. Yeah. And you know what it is? Is the if anyone's ever been to Disneyland Paris at Walt Disney Studios, their main street is in a building. And that this is what it looked like.

[00:29:00] Not this is what it looks like comparison to make, but also a fitting one. I mean, by that, I mean, not the most favorable comparison, but accurate. And then they also have Schwab's pharmacy, which is themed to a pharmacy. And Eric has a pharmacist.

[00:29:22] What would you imagine they sell at Schwab's pharmacy other than pharmaceuticals? Um, kebabs. Yeah, not entirely off thematically if you apply like an A to D sort of aesthetic. It serves soups, deli sandwiches and side salads. Almost makes sense for the old school, right? Sort of fountain.

[00:29:47] I think I think the idea is this is healthy. And I'm doing your healthy food, right? And you go to to pharmacy. You go to pharmacy for healthy, I think is what they thought. But wait, there's more. The most tragic turn in our narrative.

[00:30:09] And I'm going to make sure that I have my I want to see the reaction here because this will possibly elicit a reaction. Don the beachcomber. Yeah. Nothing from Eric, that's fine. Don the beachcomber historically. You said a name, that's all. But Eric, you're more you're into Tiki.

[00:30:31] This is this is actually an actual Don the beachcombers. I thought you were like saying he inspired something or but this is a real Don's. Well, it definitely had the name. OK. And he would have he slash they would have definitely had to approve it.

[00:30:48] It's not like a weird respelling of it or anything like that. Does does does the idea of Don the beachcomber being inside of DCA interest you? Yes. Yes, it does. Good answer. And they should have definitely thought of that.

[00:31:07] Well, what what do you think they possibly would sell at Don the beachcomber in terms of cuisine? Oh, Chinese food and are you looking at it? You looked at are you looking at it or are you actually guessing? You didn't actually Chinese food.

[00:31:24] No, that's what most that's what most Tiki restaurants did. Like they sold that exotic Chinese food back right at a time where you didn't have a ton of Chinese restaurants. And what sort of drinks would you imagine that they sell sold at

[00:31:39] Don Beachcomber's in DCA fruity with booze? Mm hmm. With like you're thinking like classics, like a Mai Tai and a big dog. Beachcomber's gold and other things that I'm reading off of the Gasterland zombie things like that. You and they did have those one.

[00:31:59] Well, one would expect that. That's what you would expect. Yes, you'd expect Trader Sam's. In in a theme park where one of if not the only main selling point at that time was that you could buy alcohol there. Right, right. They did not have that. Hmm.

[00:32:18] Which is awesome. This is just this is genuine delight. I'm sorry. It's just so stupid because Don the beachcomber and Trader Vix both claim to have invented the Mai Tai. Right. So you would think I mean it would make a lot of sense, right? It would.

[00:32:37] Let's say you're just average DCA go or it's like, oh, I'm going to this park that's right across the street from Disneyland. I've done the beachcomber. That's so cool. I've heard about it. I've never actually been there.

[00:32:52] I can't believe I can go to this park that like first of all, I can get a drink because I'm going to need it because it currently sucks and Don the beachcombers. Oh, that sounds really awesome. I'm going to let's go get a Mai Tai and then sorry.

[00:33:11] The Don the beachcomber. So that's yeah, I'm looking at all the pictures and everything. I this does not in any way look familiar at all. And again, all I can think of is the main street of Disney Studios in Paris. You know, in terms of experiencing

[00:33:33] I think I think part of that could be a trauma response to us going in there right after going on on Superstar Lube. Oh, could be. When did it close? The Hollywood and Dine. Hollywood and Dine. By the way, I just need to point out Hollywood and Dine.

[00:33:49] You see what they're doing with that? It's like, oh yeah, it's like Hollywood and Vine Street. There's a street in the Hollywood area called Vine Vine with a V. But here's these Hollywood studios. They actually have a restaurant that is Hollywood and Vine.

[00:34:05] No, I'd die because here you die. Right. Right. That is one. I'm going to do a lot of pun clearing up. Oh, thank you. Are you now? I tend to miss puns. Right. The humor is more sophisticated than my palate can handle. I'm Erica slowly becoming AI.

[00:34:28] Hollywood and Dine. Yeah. Was a victim of some of the earliest cost cuts at Disney's California Adventure Park during the first year of operation. Wow. Guests found locked doors behind gray barriers. Temporary closing became permanent, although the sign remained in front of the building until 2005.

[00:34:46] Now this becomes even sadder and more hilarious because this also brings up another past thing that should have been a thing that lasted longer. Remember Electronica and for this on the Tron. That I do. Right. So when California Adventure was the arcade, that was the arcade.

[00:35:08] Well, that was Flynn's over there. OK. Yes. Yes. I'm sorry guys. I have to give a point for the arcade. I don't know it's unrelated to any of this. But I have to. It's gone. It's gone. OK, never mind. No, I mean you can if you want.

[00:35:24] But my point is putting a point in reserve. Because that was really reserve point. That's fine. But the thing is here. Here's why it's so sad is that Electronica was super, super popular. And just for some background, Electronica was Disney's answer to OK,

[00:35:44] well we have World of Color, whichever one's into and this is before you know the virtual queue people would run to I believe it was Grizzly River Rapids. They would run straight there so that they could get a fast pass for a showing of World of Color.

[00:36:04] And then the thought was like, OK, well all these people are going to and this is the only people who could see the show. And the thought was, well, all these people are going to flood into California Adventure. It currently sucks.

[00:36:17] There's not a lot that can happen here. So Disney in a very, very rare smart move at the time said, hey, you know what? Tron 2 Electric Boogaloo is coming out. What if we made a place that's like basically an outdoor nightclub

[00:36:37] for all these presumably adult type people to let's actually embrace that we can do like adults not in the naughty way activities here. We can actually have like a nightclub experience, right? So they every night they would turn this entire area of Hollywood Studios into Electronica.

[00:37:01] So they had like little food booths, they had drink stands they had and they turned the Hollywood and Dine building into Flins where you could play all sorts of retro video games for free. These are not words that you often hear with Disney.

[00:37:17] You could you could play these games for free. Of course, the drinks were overly overpriced, but whatever. And they had like little you know, family appropriate dancers and like suggestive cages. And it was basically that line that so many people are thinking

[00:37:36] like why can't they find this nice happy medium between like, you know, having it be like, OK, adults actually come here and adults have, you know, they want to have experiences that maybe kids wouldn't otherwise want to have. I'm stuck on on a phrase you used earlier, Dan.

[00:37:56] It reminds me of a Disney special where they announce all the different people coming up and one of one of the acts is and the family appropriate dancers. Right. It was very much that, but it wasn't in that like it was done

[00:38:12] very well and it wasn't it wasn't cynical. It was and it was very much like you you could tell that it was done with an eye to lowercase a adult aesthetic and the possibility that kids would also be there. And then it was really cool.

[00:38:30] And of course, it was done by an outside group. That's why it worked. And then they turn it into Mad Hattertee Party and everybody was like, this sucks. And they stopped. I actually saw that. Yeah, yeah. It was very cool though. I just remember seeing it.

[00:38:46] Yeah. All right. Well, let us let us move on, Dan. Anything else you want to get to the history of? Um, no, that's that that's it. The rest is just stumbling towards sustainability. OK, well, so no point. No official points have been awarded.

[00:39:07] There is a reserve point for Flynn's because what a great use of space and the free aspect. But it's not there anymore. Can I point out before before we we get to the drop you know, do I say do I save my point?

[00:39:19] I'm just going to say it now rather than saving it for for a dramatic reveal later. The whole area that Dan's talking about is not on in Hollywood land. Is it? Do we are we considering that back area? Hollywood land? Uh, yeah, Disney's hold on me.

[00:39:35] Let me pull up the app here. Excuse me. I guess I'm thinking of the old street idea, but you're right. We did expand to the full land. Never. The land is the street basically. Otherwise it's just animation. Shoot, it's a street with another chunk.

[00:39:49] But hey, I mean, as far as Hollywood land is concerned, the Hollywood lounge is in Hollywood land. Therefore, so is stage 12. So is OK. Monsters Inc. is in Hollywood land, which is the land of which we are. Oh, that's right. Because we're talking about the Hollywood nevermind.

[00:40:05] That's right. So do you not have a bomb anymore? I do not have a bomb anymore because I already said it and it turns out I just had a rock that was painted black and has a string glued on the top

[00:40:16] to make it look like an old timey bomb, but it's not really. Did it say ACME on it? No, no, it didn't even have that on it. I think somebody started to paint the A, but then they ran out of white paint. Ah, what are you talking about?

[00:40:28] Maybe they maybe they were starting. It's a fake bomb. Come on, Jimmy. Follow my logic here. Got it. Thank you. Maybe they intended to write a rock and then they ran out of paint. Oh, that's a good point. They couldn't decide. All right, let's move on.

[00:40:40] They set it down and I picked it up and I'm like, this will be useful later. OK, if you enjoy more of this kind of content, listen to boys play. Eric, we're going to get started with the today world of these lands and the dining situations in each.

[00:40:56] Hooray. You mentioned about the history of the produce stand. It's called Anaheim Produce. So, Eric, I don't know how we want to handle this as far as like, do we want to go through menu items? Yes. What's there? I kind of like to make this quick

[00:41:10] because I'm going to get bored listening. So our listener may feel the same way. Wow. Your attention, please. By the way, I thought of a good way to explain it. But we're explaining in a way that fits in the narrative of our shows.

[00:41:30] It's if you want to hear us, if you want to hear a situation where Eric knows almost nothing and I actually like what we're talking about, then this is the show for you. Eric, let's talk about Anaheim Produce first.

[00:42:04] Grab a grab hold of an on the go energy boost at this healthy cart featuring a fast and refreshing assortment of snacks and treats, including fresh fruit and veggies, Mickey pretzels with zesty cheese sauce, frozen lemonade, margaritas and more. That's what Disney has to say about this cart.

[00:42:22] I love this. I could I could do a whole episode just reading what Disney says about Disney's copy. Oh my God. So what they sell here currently, like you mentioned earlier, they have plant based fruit. Plant based fruit. They sell pickles, bottled beverages. It's about time. Right.

[00:42:43] They this is one of the places where they sell full churros Oh, for seven bucks. They sell the chocolate sauce with it to hide that they're not very great churros, even though they're the same brand as Disneyland. Listeners, I'm sure we've been through this plenty of times

[00:43:00] on plenty of shows that you've heard us on. But the main reason why the churros stink in Walt Disney World is because they don't sell very many of them. Well, that's not the reason they stink. They stink. Sounds like a chicken on the egg kind of situation.

[00:43:11] Yeah, I was going to say they don't sell them because they're not good. It's not that they they're not good so they don't sell them. It's just a weird cultural thing on the on the East Coast. Nobody really caught on with it and they're not the same.

[00:43:24] They don't taste the same. And they you know how they you know that they're bad is because they give you chocolate sauce to go with it. Well, that's what I just said. It's like confetti at the end of a show. That's what I repeated. There we go.

[00:43:35] That's why it's important. They sell frozen margaritas there and some beers and white claw. There you go. That is an I'm produce and then an equivalent to an I'm produce in Anaheim and the actual Anaheim is Fairfax Market. That's correct. Head to Hollywoodland for healthy snacks

[00:43:56] such as whole and sliced fruit, pickle, spears, is it based? Yeah, this is all plant based, that she cups. Some hummus and more meat based pickles. Oh, that actually sounds raw. That sounds awesome. Pickled herring. Yum yum. I have that in my fridge. Let's see. Hummus and more

[00:44:21] bottled drinks from refreshing coconut water to soda pop round out the offerings at this market stand. And of course, message in part dining requires a theme park reservation and valid mission for the same park on the same day for each guest ages, three year old.

[00:44:39] Eric, before we get to me entirely winning with this one, tell me is your fruit stand open a convenient? Let's see. Math seven hours a day. Wow. Yes. Is your is your fruit cart directly across the street from a restroom? Oh, conveniently adjacent to a restroom.

[00:45:14] It's pretty close. Yeah. And outside of that restroom, you can see the leading lady and the the the best man, the story. The starring man. Real quick. So so these two fruit carts just for the for the group. Yeah, they're effectively both fruit stands, right? Assorted whole fruit.

[00:45:38] You can only imagine plant based there. They're all plant based meat. Here's what I like about the Fairfax one. Hold on. We have this and this is a word that I should know how to say because I love them very much. Chicharrones. Chicharrones.

[00:45:54] When you have that and though they are not chicharrones and they are not plant based, they're very much meat based. And what are they? Pork rinds. Pork rinds. Yeah. Right. Right. Spiced pork rinds. But do you have frozen frozen coke with and without alcohol?

[00:46:10] So that's kind of what I was getting to, Eric. It feels like that is going to be tricky because one is in Anaheim. One is called labor cost. Think the labor cost, Jimmy. DCA, the fruit stand is more of what I would see a traditional fruit stands.

[00:46:25] Fruit, vegetables, hummus, pickles. Right. And then, you know, flavored water, soda, that sort of thing. And then pork rinds. So there's a little more of a theme. Eric's yours has similar stuff, maybe not so much vegetables. It is Florida. May have pretzels. Mickey pretzels. You've got

[00:46:48] you've got churros. I might have an alcohol. I might have a way to hear Eric. May the gate may the guest remain in their wheelchair or ECV at your market because of mine, they can. Absolutely. Ah, drats.

[00:47:07] As long as you're up on, I mean, yeah, if you've you've presumably gone over the curb earlier. Now, Eric, you just roll right up, Dan. So the frozen margarita thing is it like behind the counter when you bring your whole your plant based fruit to the counter.

[00:47:25] Yeah, the counter frozen margarita. Yeah, because they've got the little they have the the little bins with the ice and the fresh stuff in it. Presumably they have I can't quite remember if they have carrots and stuff in there too, but I don't know. But yeah.

[00:47:42] But yeah, that's up front. So you kind of as you're going through the line, you can grab all that stuff or your bottled drink. And then when you get up to the counter, that's where they have the the heater with the the churros

[00:47:52] and the Mickey pretzel heater rotating deal. And then they've got the frozen stuff behind there. And you can also that's where you pick up that they've got some beers on tap and canned beers as well. As a member of the temperance movement, I need to step in here.

[00:48:08] Do we really think it's a good idea to sell alcoholic beverages in a children's theme park? The question is, do we think it's a good idea to sell alcoholic beverages that early in the day at a children's theme park? That's a great question.

[00:48:25] So I'm trying to be as objective as I can. I really genuinely do not want to spend a lot of time on this episode. I know that's going to get longer. But I'm just trying to think like a couple of fruit stands.

[00:48:37] One of them has like more substantive food and alcohol. The other one is more of like a fruit stand. And it looks in my mind's eye, I'm seeing it's just kind of like a it feels like a newsstand almost. You got food on the street.

[00:48:50] It's not like you don't really go in anywhere. Right. It's not 3D. It's just there, whereas produce is more it fits in more with the theme of the farmer's market where there's more dimension to it. Except the alcohol.

[00:49:05] And I also need to point out that due to it only being open seven hours a day, the other times it could double as a newsstand. So it's like double theming. Good. An empty newsstand because nobody buys newspapers. So I'm having a hard time with this.

[00:49:21] Like, is it more substantive in Hollywood studios that does not have a lot of great places to eat? Not famous for its quality of food. Disney DCA is more famous for its quality of food now. Can I genuinely suggest an approach to this? Yes, please.

[00:49:41] What if in this kind of scenario, and I think you might be going in this direction, but I just want to like kind of push you further there. What if we consider like each thing kind of as a part of the whole? Meaning that like how what does

[00:50:01] how much does how much I guess how much does this add to the whole of California adventure compared to how much does that add to the whole of Disney MGM studios, which I refuse to call anything else.

[00:50:16] OK, so I don't want to do it as yeah, that's interesting. I don't mean if you're going to just as a kind of frame it that way, Dan, if you're going to frame it that way, then I would say that Anaheim Produce does more for the park

[00:50:27] than does Fairfax Market. I mean, if we're going to frame it that way. But what I would like to do and this is unprecedented, I would like to come back to that. Hmm, OK, OK, because I'm not sure yet and I want to go further

[00:50:45] before we decide which one of those is better. So what I'd like to do then we have three hours before it closes. So that's good. OK. The next thing I'd like to do, Eric, is let's go to Rosie's All American Cafe.

[00:51:01] Yes. Well, we'll start out with the copy here. Relish. Oh, wow. There used to be roses red hot. They saw hot dogs. They kept it today. Relish in the red, white and blue spirit with American classics like an Angus cheeseburger, crispy chicken nuggets and fries.

[00:51:21] Then wash it all down with an icy Coke or an ice cold beer. Put relish on all of this. Just floating in your beer. Relish in your beer. Hot dogs, cheeseburgers, chicken nugs, fifteen dollars chili cheese, footlong hot dog. Rosie's All American Salad. Here's your healthy option.

[00:51:45] It's pulled pork, sweet potatoes, tortillas, chips, salads are healthy, radishes. Pumpkin seeds and ranch dressing. It's very America and it's twelve dollars. You can also get a plant based lobster roll. Oh, I actually love that as someone who is allergic to meat based lobster.

[00:52:07] And they make it out of hearts of palm, which if you haven't had hearts of palm before listener, it's that that could work out really well. Like hearts of palm makes really good pasta. It can be it can be more dense.

[00:52:21] It's got more of a chew to it than a lot of the like alternative grains necessarily. So for a it's and it's also kind of a it's a plant that you don't eat a whole lot of. You don't see a lot of it, so it's a little more.

[00:52:34] I think you could pull off some of the trickery better. Did you say it's a plant based lobster roll? Yes. Yes. OK. What lobster roll is in the sandwich? Yeah, yeah. Well, and according to my composition teacher, and this is true, he has said these words to people,

[00:52:48] to people in the food industry, fish or vegetables. There you go. Yeah. Interesting. It's a real person. OK. Two more noteworthy things to discuss on the menu. I know you didn't want me to list the whole menu, but there are some weird things like this one in particular.

[00:53:09] PB and J cookie sandwich. Interesting. What makes it a cookie sandwich? It is a peanut butter cookie, two peanut butter cookies with jelly in the middle. Interesting. Is that like on the kids menu or is it just a snack? That is the phantasmic cookie sandwich.

[00:53:27] So that's on that's on the bad news. You eat like a kid. There you go. I'd also like to point out completely separate from this, but just, you know, maybe maybe this is part of the dad food hex account that Dan and I have talked about so much.

[00:53:43] Cheese sauce is an additional one dollar. Just saying. Now, why would you get the cheese sauce? Well, we need to do the food hex. I don't think we've discussed this on the show. No, no, we haven't made ourselves laugh at God. Yeah.

[00:54:02] It was if there are any listeners out there who would like to sacrifice their Instagram account for us to have you do ridiculous things that amuse us. Please contact the food acts like getting a turkey leg and putting

[00:54:16] a and mashing a doll with mashing it on top of a matter of selfie with it. With your fingernails painted. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And the last interesting item is lightning McQueen's spare tire. It is a chocolate cake donut filled with raspberry jam

[00:54:35] and robed in dark chocolate, mousse, coconut glazed chocolate flakes and a chocolate coin. And that's six bucks off. It sounds terrible. I was a lot of doughnut. I thought of one. Who doesn't talk like that? It was you get you get the souvenir popcorn bucket.

[00:54:56] Throw away the popcorn. There's there's a lot of throwing away of things in these food hacks. And in the video, by the way, it will be done with like disdain. So you get the popcorn bucket, you throw the popcorn away.

[00:55:14] You keep the but oh yeah, I give it to me. I'm embracing it. You keep the popcorn to suit your popcorn bucket, which is not made to hold liquids, by the way. And then you go to the New Orleans veranda

[00:55:29] and you get to the beef gumbo and the clam chowder. You pour them into both. The popcorn bucket. You throw away the bread ball and you're left with just this weird sludge. You would say, what is the buck? And your hands scalding. And it's scalding.

[00:55:54] I thought a fun one would be a dad hack would be to take the popcorn bucket angrily throw away the popcorn, right? And then have all your friends go get a cocktail for all the cocktails in the popcorn. So you got popcorn. Popcorn bucket size drink.

[00:56:13] This is my fault, listener. The one who started this. OK, so, Eric, we've got we got burgers. We got dogs. We got some salads. We got a plant based. Lodge to roll foods, things, P.B. and J. Sandwich and some beer.

[00:56:32] Dan, you have a word weeners, which we decided. I'm sorry. I can't stop thinking of them. You you you peel off the corn. The battered corn layer from your corn dog and you get a churro. You craft the churro on it. Like around the hot dog.

[00:56:53] Yeah, like it's face off. Oh, my God. Again, skull hands while you do so. Yeah. Oh, there's a lot of scalding of head. Jesus. I promise this is genuine. And I'm really trying to stop this. All right, so a word weeners. Oh, my God.

[00:57:20] We only we only talk about high class stuff around these parts. OK, I can do this. You're good. We're going to dedicate this song to you. Henry doesn't say this anymore. Does he? So did it. No, and I've spoiler freed myself. That's another thing I haven't done yet.

[00:57:37] I don't know. I can't wait. Watched. I watched it. Doesn't look good. I would I want. I want my bears back. Jesus. OK, so it's about award weeners beyond the clever name. There are no there are no jokes about shooting kids. What's wrong with this country?

[00:57:58] Oh, but don't. All right, award weeners. First of all, I need to point out to you both when someone wins an award. You would refer to. That's an award winner. OK, keep going. This is kind of an extension of how you can put

[00:58:18] relish on a lot of the things on that menu before. All right, so when one is someone who has won an award, you refer to them as an award winner. Right. Now, now I have this for also. Well, hold on, because you can also.

[00:58:34] You refer to a hot dog as a weiner. Right. OK, OK. Now put it together for me. They decided that it would be and I don't disagree. It'd be funny for them to say that this place is called award weeners.

[00:58:51] It's in combining of the ideas because they are hot dog. Because that's what they sell. They sell hot dogs. Right. Is that naming style? Not the sort of restaurant personification of Hollywood, the superstar limo? It's I would go further and say that it is. It is the

[00:59:15] I would say manifestation instead of personification, but it is the most it is a pure distillation of that entire time period of the Walt Disney Company. Yeah, it seems like one point. Oh, DCA was all puns. Yeah, exactly. That's what I'm trying to say. Right.

[00:59:32] And it does not belong there anymore. It should be called something different. I think at the very least because the restaurant itself just not being in character is not bad. I mean, it's not great either. It's it's the hot dogs. Right.

[00:59:46] So hold on, because if you like puns here, well, not puns, but pun like activity, Famished Frank. This is going to be really hard for me. OK. Famished Frankford or fans flock to this satisfying hot dog stand where the talent is totally in the taste.

[01:00:06] Is that's the description of. Oh, OK. So here's where I want to go. I don't know what they have. Give us the menu. You got hot dogs before I get to my point. You got seasonal offering currently when I'll go off the. Oh, seasonal. They got seasonal.

[01:00:24] So they have currently they have pride offerings, which, you know, they kind of just always have something that they throw rainbow sprinkles, whatever. Yeah, whatever the other theme is, they have a version of it. But seasonal offerings currently are and they they change these up.

[01:00:41] Me, I am exhausted for making myself laugh at that stupid crap. Meatball sandwich. And you know what that is. And with everything you can imagine that it comes with cuties or film strip fries, which are French fries that look like a film strip.

[01:00:57] PB and J sweet potato fries. Yum yum, crispy sweet potato fries, peanut butter cream, strawberry jelly drizzle and potato chips. Regular old sweet potato fries. That's a picture of our fest thing. They also have Oh, for us, Magic Key holders. We have Magic Key mirrored Mickey shaped zipper

[01:01:22] so you can treat yourself like a toddler. And they also have the stars of the show. Bacon Street hot dog bacon street dog, which is all beef hot dogs dipped in a house made roasted red pepper ketchup, topped with grilled onions, bell peppers and crispy bacon crumbles.

[01:01:43] We also have the uptown chili dog. I'll be hot dog topped with home style chili pepper jack cheese and corn chips topped with served in a toasted bun. And then just regular hot dog. OK, they also have you can also get a sorry, a soda fries,

[01:02:04] film, we already talked about film strip fries. They have a plant based filly dog, plant based filly dog, which is not just in case you are misguided by that. It is basically just all mushrooms. What I've heard is that if you know going in that it's basically

[01:02:23] like the mushrooms are filling in for the meat, it's actually not bad. I could imagine that I would imagine that tastes good. But if you go in thinking that's going to be a meat replacement experience, it can be very shocking.

[01:02:36] They also have the power pack for the kids, tiny air and hot dog for the kids. They have beer. They have margarita. They have Hollywood coolers, which are just drinks. OK, Eric, do you have any sense of, you know, Dan explained the name of Ward Weiner's?

[01:03:00] What I mean, I can explain it again if you're not clear. Rosie's All American. Are we talking about Rosie the Riveter? That's kind of from the Jetsons, I believe. I see. Yes. Very popular character in the Disney parks. I'm assuming Rosie the Riveter. It's always been.

[01:03:18] I mean, they don't think they have anything that explicitly does it fit? It's all American. I guess Hollywood doesn't. I mean, I guess Hollywood is American, but just doesn't. The theming doesn't mesh for me. I do like the plant based lobster roll at Rosie's

[01:03:39] and I do like some of the variety. All of that dining in that park on that side of the park all just feels very amusement park to me. Not theme park amusement park. I wonder if that's on purpose.

[01:03:55] Maybe I got to have you got to have a place for a cheap burger. You do have to have a see Hungry Bear Restaurant, right? You got to have funnel cakes. You got to have a cheeseburger. I guess they have the back lot restaurant

[01:04:07] and the ABC commentary also have a cheap hamburger. Right. OK, so that box is already checked. I was just I was, you know, good faith trying to be fair here. This place has a third pound Angus cheeseburger, so they're not necessarily going for the cheap stuff here.

[01:04:24] That's right. So here's what I like about award wieners is there the various options, variations on a theme. I like the I like that the seasonal offering a lot because Rosie's kind of always the same. I like the donut represents their limited menu, by the way. Gotcha.

[01:04:45] I appreciate that interjection. Sweet potato fries, I like that for those who like that gross stuff. I like the asada fries. I like just sort of the breadth and various flavors that probably are a little bit more locals, not the right way to put it

[01:05:05] a little bit more nuanced, a little bit more eclectic. So in this case, I'm going to say kind of sprinkle a little bit of something on what you just said. I think I think my observation of it is

[01:05:15] I don't eat there a lot, but I'm not opposed to it. Every time I have gotten something there, like, you know, like the chili dog or something, some some I forget. I think I got her. I think it was a Rubin, a Rubin dog is what I got.

[01:05:28] OK, it was it's almost always clear that even if they even even if they go in the wrong creative direction, they do something else to it. It's not just here's pastrami and stuff on top of a thing. It's like they actually thought it they think it through.

[01:05:48] They they add an extra twist that fits to what they're doing. But you can tell, like, for example, just as simple as the chili cheese dog, it could have easily been cheddar. It's pepper jack, you know, like things like right.

[01:06:03] Sure. OK, so I'd like to I was going to give negative points for the names because neither they're just lame. That's going to get you more lame. Award-winners is more lame. Does that mean it gets a point for that or not?

[01:06:20] No, I'm just I'm going to give a point for award-winners menu. OK. When did animals style burgers start? And but I do want to acknowledge, you know, they both have booze. They both, you know, have hot dogs. Award-winners does not have a hamburger. No, they shouldn't. It's award-winners.

[01:06:42] That's true. So the hamburger. It would be a blessing for me. You cannot get a hamburger in Hollywoodland at DCA. Huh? I just thought of something. Hapsburgers, the burger restaurant where everything's in bread. In what? I'm sorry, I haven't been saving well.

[01:07:07] This episode is never going to end. Hapsburg, it's the Hapsburg Jaws, the sign of like extreme like inbreeding and reels. Yeah, they can have Hapsburgers. You lost me. But OK, so I'm just trying to think like there's no hamburgers at at Hollywoodland at all. Dan, is that correct?

[01:07:30] No, there are not. OK. Hamburgers are not necessarily like synonymous with Hollywood, per se. So I don't know if I want to demote that. In fact, oddly enough, California Adventure, while they do have hamburgers, I would argue I know someone can make a case for smoked jumbers grill,

[01:07:53] but they don't really have any strong hamburger presence in terms of like it actually being a good solid burger without the N and O. Without N and O, which is ironic because Southern California, like in and out or not, they should at least have a good burger

[01:08:09] that's not like a weird sausage based patty like they do at Lamp White. Like just a straight up, give me a good burger. Yeah, kind of doesn't exist. OK, so I'm not going to ding anything. I'm just going to keep with the point that we already gave

[01:08:24] for the nuance and variety of the Warwieners. Let's move on to Eric. We're going to move on to Catalina. And he's Catalina Eddies. Regarding the name, the best I can think of is that Catalina is an island and Eddie is something that happens in water.

[01:08:46] Oh, it's not the current. So this particular thing is is an apostrophe, so it's possessive. This is Eddie's. True Catalina. It is Eddie's as a person. Catalina and Hollywood and Catalina. I'm just saying if you want to, if you're really like stretching for a pun

[01:09:04] or some explanation of the name here other than a guy named Eddie. Jimmy, I'm going to go ahead and concede something here considering that we're dealing with Florida, a Florida version of Hollywood. As much as as a.

[01:09:19] And to be clear, not Hollywood, Florida, which is a totally different thing. Right, right. As much as the Southern California diehard I am, I am willing to extend Disney World, the grace of saying like, OK, Catalina, you got the region kind of right. That's fine.

[01:09:38] May as well be Hollywood. We're going to make this one quick. Eric, do you want to tell us about Catalina Eddie's real quick? I can cruise over for fresh hot pizzas, zesty chicken, Caesar salads and more. Then satisfy your sweet tooth with it with a delicious dessert.

[01:09:52] Hot and cold drinks are also available. This place sells exactly what I just said in the copy. The dessert, the delicious dessert is the enchanted rose dessert, which is a dark chocolate mousse on a cookie. And it has the same drinks as Rosie's next door, because it's across

[01:10:08] the street from the Butte and the Beast Theatre. Right. What we should have done and may still do Catalina Eddie's and Rosie's are the same restaurant with two windows. Same kitchen. Same kitchen. Yeah. So it's basically one.

[01:10:25] All right. So just like what you can't buy a pizza at Rosie's, they won't sell it to you. It's a two different lines, right? Which maybe the dark crystal. It's just like the plot of the dark crystal. Why do you think that is? It's the same building.

[01:10:39] You have light beings, you know, dark beings. And then when they come together at the end, they become one united being that should have never been fractured much like the crystal itself. Why do you think they is it?

[01:10:52] Why don't they just have two windows for the same restaurant? Because it makes it feel like there's more there. It's the effect of seeing more things in the app. It's more options. Yeah. Yeah, the old more things are more things. So that's a great argument, right?

[01:11:10] All right. So in this case, the pizza is not great. I wouldn't know. But also you cannot get pizza at Hollywood land at DCA. So for that, but considering but considering pizza at Disney Land parks tend to go, that could be an act of grace.

[01:11:33] But you brought up the Florida thing. You brought up the park thing. So I'm going to just for variety's sake, a hamburger pizza options in a theme park. I'm going to give a point to Hollywood Studios. All right, let's move on to Fairfax Fair, Eric.

[01:11:55] Treat yourself to a delicious waffle bowl filled with savory chicken, pork or brisket and tasty toppings, or enjoy the fresh and flavorful plant based bowl and save some room for a truly delectable dessert. This is one of the few breakfasts that you can get in in Hollywood Studios,

[01:12:16] where you can get Mickey Waffles. Just so you know that you are not at a castle park, you can also get a mimosa here at 9 a.m. Oh, interesting. Thank God. Yes. And what is that breakfast offering, Eric?

[01:12:31] I already told you it's Mickey Waffles with or without bacon. And with or without maple syrup. That's all. The bowls you get beef brisket, Korean pork belly, buffalo chicken, they are served on the meat is served on top of mashed potatoes in a waffle bowl.

[01:12:50] The plant based bowl is fake chicken, and the dessert is the aforementioned enchanted rose, the chocolate mousse with a cookie and stuff. So is it the gray stuff? It is not. It is a dark chocolate mousse.

[01:13:04] Is it the same thing that you can get at the pizza place? It is the same. Yeah, same as the pizza place. Gray stuff is more of a brownish brownish brownish. It's the pizza place. Gray stuff is more Oreo cookie based.

[01:13:16] Got it. OK, so I've got a breakfast, which is key. I've got the brisket, the Korean pork belly is very interesting. The waffle bowls, interesting plant based option for chicken. I'm going to I'm yeah, I don't like dark chocolate,

[01:13:33] so I'm just not going to entertain it. Oh, no. Eric or Dan. Sorry, Eric, do you have anything else on Fairfax fair? That's about it. Dan, then we are going to talk about the Studio Grill. Is that right? Studio Catering Company Studio Catering Company. Tell us about that.

[01:13:50] Will would be too kind. I'm going to introduce a possible possibility for a point here, which is least obnoxious description on the app. Looking for a quick sip and delightful bites. Time to take a time out to try attempting seasonal snacks, refreshing non-alcoholic beverages

[01:14:13] and Coca Cola offerings at this vibrant backlot truck open during select hours. The select hours are reasonable. 10 30 to 9 p.m. OK. Sips and likes are some of Disney's favorite words, though. They do love those. That's true, the bites thing. Eric, do they have alcohol at Fairfax fair?

[01:14:32] They do. Mostly beer. And then you said they do not have alcohol at. They do not. However, and I don't know how we want to deal with this, they do have a connection with a place like basically right next to them called the Hollywood. That seems to remember.

[01:14:53] What's that? Two different transactions. One transaction. OK. And that counts. All right. So are we saying Hollywood Lounge is not its own thing anymore? Oh, I don't know. But it's the same transaction. Same time transaction. Actually, I think you can do the same transaction at either.

[01:15:12] So in fairness, we should count them as one. I have never noticed that. As much as I want to stretch this out, I think in studio catering company and Hollywood Lounge are. Are we sure it's one transaction? They're separate. Not 100 percent. Like they're physically separated. Yeah.

[01:15:32] They're too separate. I can't be entirely sure. But my my memory is that you can, in fact, say, oh, and I want I want to pick up this over there. And they'll say like, OK, just show them this receipt.

[01:15:45] Well, let's take alcohol out of the equation just for the sake of. Thank God. As a member of the temperance movement, I'm glad we are doing that. Studio catering company. Is it a food truck? It is a food truck.

[01:15:57] And let's just pretend it's a food truck in the fun whimsical way that it should be. They have a Magic Key offering, which is this Mickey shaped zipper so you can treat yourself like a toddler if you want to. They also have a variety of

[01:16:15] and by variety, I mean by variety, I mean that they change the burrito like periodically. They have a variety of burritos. The current one is orange chicken burrito, crispy orange chicken and low main noodles with vegetables and egg fried rice

[01:16:37] rolled in a flour tortilla and served with hot sauce and wonton chips. I mean, I can order it right now on the app because I know it sounds delectable. Just drive on up and pick it up.

[01:16:51] I mean, OK, look, if you are going to Disneyland to do a run Disney event, this would be great the day before the carb up, right? Um, we also have Mickey Mouse pretzels and an optional cheese cup and Ramon nachos, which are tortilla chips topped with grilled chicken.

[01:17:13] Queso Blanco, Ray Fried Beans, Pico de Gallo, salsa verde. Cotea, Serrano Peppers and Radishes. Is this Ramon as in from cars? Cars? We've got a rogue cars. You know, here's the thing. I don't know. And all I can think is that it better be

[01:17:41] because otherwise they just picked a kind of stir. Yeah, because it's nachos. We call it. Yeah, they as well. Like a riba, a riba, bang bang nachos. Oh, my God. A riba bang bang. Well, I'm going to say that

[01:18:06] unless you have something else to say, that sounds terrible. I have much to say that isn't like directly connected to the menu. OK, I have observation of things to say. I'm going to say what what I find fascinating is at a place like Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida,

[01:18:26] they have something as and I'm going to use the word nuanced again. So I apologize as a Korean pork belly bowl. I'm going to go ahead and give Fairfax fair a point. Now, in fairness, there are times when they put Korean pork belly in a burrito. I'm sure.

[01:18:54] Again, I like the variety. I like the mix it up. They also mix it up with Fairfax. That's not always the same. Right. And they also put chopsticks in the burrito and they're like, hey, things are the edible chopsticks. Of course, there are.

[01:19:10] The other thing is that what I was going to say is the Fairfax fair was the place you go to get a turkey leg. That's all they had for a long time. Yeah. So I like that they've mixed it up. Sounds like this variety of both.

[01:19:21] So Fairfax fair gets that point. Current point totals are DCA one with a reserve and Hollywood Studios two. We're going to move on to scoops, Hollywood scoops, Hollywood scoops, Eric. You're still you're still going to argue the point? No, I feel bad arguing against it now.

[01:19:43] Oh, because you don't really like the the food, the food truck, huh? I look, I'm glad they're taking risks. All right, Hollywood scoops. Get the inside scoop with hand dipped ice cream and more. And don't miss the star of the menu, the Mickey Brownie Sunday.

[01:20:02] Fat free, no sugar added vanilla ice cream is also available. I wasn't very snappy, but there is an AP only Sunday here if you want to, you know, if you must have some privilege. And we must. Yeah, it's it looks like a regular Sunday,

[01:20:19] but it also is served on top of a chocolate doughnut instead of a brownie, which is the other fancy thing here, the brownie Sunday. They're both eight dollars and I was going to give I was going to give California Adventure a point for having some annual

[01:20:36] past folder nod, but now I feel like I'm not going to do that because it's a nod and it's not just a sippy cup. It's an actual food offering. Not a bibs, but continue. All right. They change up. They've I mean, it's it's a it's an actual

[01:20:53] hand hand dipped ice cream store. So they've got a bunch of different flavors that are rotating. They change out the shake options and the doughnut options and Sunday offerings every few months. So that that part of the menu is is rotating. The things that they always have,

[01:21:08] the thing that they always have is the Mickey Brownie Sunday and presumably this AP only Sunday. I haven't seen that one until until recently, but but yeah, everything else is how many flavors of ice cream are there? Do you know? Oh gosh, that is a good question.

[01:21:27] I just had it up to 31. Those are all the flavors of the universe. See, hands cream while he's looking that up. Dan, would you like to talk about schmoozies? I sure would. First of all, I need to explain a few things here. OK, please. When people in Hollywood.

[01:21:48] Like get together and talk about a project or something, or they try to like, I don't know, build some sort of rapport or anything like that. Let's say like they're getting together with the possibility of there being more not really a meeting, but like a rubbing of,

[01:22:08] you know, professional and social elbows, let's say. That's called schmoozing in the Hollywood lexicon. The real albums. What's that? Literal elbows, literal. Well, I mean, whatever you got to be careful about. I don't understand business. Wow. Crazy Hollywood types. I still don't understand.

[01:22:29] So schmoozing. OK, so so you schmooze. That's called shmoosing. And then there are also things sort of like milkshakes. But like fruit, well, they're plant based and very often those plants are fruits. Interesting. And they are called smoothies. OK. Now, what Disney did is they looked at let's.

[01:22:53] Let's like really maximize these ideas. We need to communicate that this is indeed a location in a Hollywood setting. How do we do that? Right. And then they what if we have a smoothie place? Right. And so they thought long and hard about it.

[01:23:10] And they thought I got it. Schmooze's because you combine the two. So, you know, like award weeners. Right. But I would all I would almost argue more clever. Well, absolutely. Yeah. Very. Let me say let me put it this way, whatever energy that was, it's more of that.

[01:23:32] Yes, slightly more energy. Still also at this point, very lazy and very 2001 O.G. 1.0 Hollywood stir DCA. Dan, tell us about schmooze's now that we understand the meaning of the name. Take a power break with the delicious fresh fruit smoothie

[01:23:53] that's sure to be the tug of the town. Mm hmm. And what we have here is we have seasonal offerings currently. Strawberry shortcake mini shake. A lot of shake in there. And that is a strawberry shake blended with vanilla cookies and topped with strawberry sauce,

[01:24:14] which topping vanilla cream filled cookies and a mini bow by many. By the way, it's Minnie Mouse. It's not like a very small tiny bow bow. Yeah. Yeah. Watermelon lemonade. You know what those two things are? Shake twenty three nineteen. That is vanilla, orange, guava and pineapple shake

[01:24:35] with shaved coconut whipped topping and an orange cone. Twenty three nineteen. And then there are twenty three. Oh, that's yes. Yes, because it's a shake. It gets a bit blended up. Oh, yeah. Got it. Got it. Hopefully that's not the price. Am I right? Close.

[01:25:02] If you got two with tax, it would be that. Panda May straw clip is an extra purchase that you can make if you are into spending more money. Edible straw. No, but it is apparently so popular that only you can only get two per person.

[01:25:22] There is also a churro bun to cake, strawberry lemonade bun to cake. And they also have alcoholic beverages. Basically, seltzer, watermelon lemonade. They just pour some liquor in there. You know what those three things are? Mango madness with liquor.

[01:25:39] It's basically like what they kind of already have just with liquor. They just throw booze into whatever. Yeah, that's kind of what's going on there. Let's see any extra special things. Mango man, liquor. Can I just go in and order a smoothie

[01:25:52] like I want orange pineapple and strawberry? As far as I can tell, no, they would not know what to do with that. So it's not it's not a smoothie king per se. It's just a schmoozies that have smoothies, but it's also ice cream and that's true.

[01:26:08] In fact, I would even wager that if you were to go there and say you pointing to these things, I want you to take that and I want you to put that in this blender here and that there and put that in also the same blender

[01:26:26] and then take the ice that's right there and put that in the same blender and then maybe take a little bit of sprite from that little nozzle you have right there and your hand ready to go, sprinkle some of that in there.

[01:26:42] And I want you to set the blender on the smoothie setting as you will frequently do in this job. And you put the lid on and press on. They would just look at you and say the churro carts over there.

[01:26:56] OK, so Eric, did you land on the ice cream? Yes. And just as a little counterpoint before I get to the great reveal of how many flavors we've got just as a counterpoint to the the sore thumb neon sign of schmoozies and all the rest of that.

[01:27:14] How dare you, sir? Hollywood scoops. It is whimsical. Hollywood scoops is set is set in the 1930s. And it has vintage light fixtures and a cute little cute little cartoon guy with a giant scoop as their mascot. He's on the sign. Sorry, I don't mean to interrupt,

[01:27:35] but I just need to point out I am rejecting your implication. Mine is clearly themed to. Two thousand one two thousand one. That's correct. Eric, what is the grand reveal of your ice creams? There are. Seven regular flavors. Then you also have fat free no sugar added vanilla.

[01:28:01] And you also have both chocolate and vanilla. Frozen dessert, which are plant based varieties of not ice cream. And of course, the forbidden flavors, which we don't talk about. So what I was going to say was if there was a ice cream

[01:28:18] ice cream shop versus a smoothies shop where I can go get something healthy in my theme park day, I would give it to the smoothie shop. But it seems to me that what the ice cream stand is trying to be

[01:28:31] is an ice cream stand and Schmoozy's is lazy in its naming, but is not living up to what it's supposed to be. They do have wash, no, and lemonade. I'm sure they do, which is that's when I think smoothie store, I think watermelon, water, lemonade. Yes.

[01:28:50] All right, unfortunately, it's almost like they took all of the flaws inherent in Jamba Juice and they were like, we need to go further with this. All right, point for Hollywood scoops. All right, let me remind you of all the good times that you had in Flynn's arcade.

[01:29:16] You could play all night if you wanted to. I just want to read. The listener can't see this, but I have a lot of notes like I'm legitimately taking this seriously. I know of notes and our final restaurant to compare is K. R. N. R.

[01:29:35] The Rock Station, which is a place to eat. Yes. K. R. N. R. The Rock Station. Swing by this tricked out trailer where we're taking requests for classic drinks and snacks, chill with our super cool lineup of soft serve and floats,

[01:29:54] or dig that solid cold fan favorite frozen lemonade. It is a gig trailer. So not it, not a food truck. It's just a trailer. And like where the equipment would be stored where they're going to the right, yeah, your gear and all that.

[01:30:14] They sell corn dog nuggets, chips, cookies, mini churros with chocolate sauce in case a full size churro doesn't appeal to you. You can get tinier ones that are probably more than a full churro.

[01:30:30] That's mini without an eye or with a sorry, without an ear with as in miniature. It's no poke it up. They miniaturized the word miniature. Wouldn't that be funny if they're like little mini mouse? Mini mini. OK, so frozen drinks, soft serve.

[01:30:47] In case you don't like, you know, real ice cream, you can get soft serve frozen drinks with or without rum, whiskey or vodka. And ice cream ableism, I need to say that was ice cream ableism that you engaged in right now. Soft serve isn't real ice cream.

[01:31:03] Let's just say it. I love it has the potential to be. Let me finish the menu. But like. That was the last thing on the menu. Oh, so this this food stand is woke, I see. Yes, the only thing it's got is the only beer.

[01:31:20] So it's ice cream and beer is what it comes down to. And and corn dogs and corn dogs. OK, and chips by the way, this place is a treasure for our Instagram. Yes. Finally, Dan, the Hollywood lounge. Mm hmm. Tell me about it.

[01:31:39] The first of all, Hollywood Lounge is located next to a building that used to hold a wonderfully whimsical arcade experience called Flens. Where you could go and play all sorts of video games that you have to pay for those games. It was for my god.

[01:31:57] And you it's a little now conveniently located right next to a bathroom. All the video games are like all of your favorites from your childhood, if you are above a certain age. And it was delightful. And I just want to say that I find it.

[01:32:16] In I don't know, I think it's an insult to the memories of an entire generation to ignore that this ever existed. But anyway, I mean, as it may. Hollywood Lounge, quench your thirst at a stand offering a super lineup of non-alcoholic and alcoholic libations.

[01:32:37] Again, I want to introduce the possibility of consistently less obnoxious descriptions. But that's said that Hollywood Lounge has the thing that I love, but you've apparently haven't figured out how to say Chicharrones. I hope I said it right with a side of hot sauce and lime. Yum, yum.

[01:32:57] It is less than six dollars. And I'm sure you get an abundant serving. You can also get beer, which also includes Micheladas, you can get dragon fruit, soju, mule, mule, that's how you say that word that I've always known how to say. Various mixed drinks.

[01:33:19] Basically drinks, a wide variety. It's a bar. It's a bar and it has a wide variety of I don't want to go too far and say the biggest variety, but it's it's up there with the other beer varieties throughout the park. So not just Bud Light?

[01:33:36] Not just Bud Light with, you know, someone's face on the can. Is it on draft? I think so. I haven't I honestly, I haven't I believe it all is because it would say if it's not.

[01:33:49] I also just want to point out, I know that not everybody likes these, but I as someone who adores them but can only drink one before I have digestion problems. They have Micheladas like across the board, all sorts of different preparations

[01:34:03] and approaches to the Michelada that's that's that's kind of fun. So this is kind of that's kind of what this place is. It's a lot of beer with some mixed drinks that are fun and, you know, exciting.

[01:34:17] Some seltzer, some other stuff, but also just like a whole bunch of preparations of Michelada. And the only food offering is pork rinds. It's all you need. OK. Generally. Eric, would you say that K-R-N-R is mostly a drink stand with corn dogs?

[01:34:40] Or would you say it's a corn dog stand with drinks? It's mostly a drink stand that has some I mean, the other snacks are tortilla chips with cheese, chocolate chip cookie bags of chips. OK. It doesn't.

[01:34:52] I just want to point out at mine that could be a fun game where you like put the beer on the one side of the table and you try to like beer pong the Chichurron is into it. Oh my God.

[01:35:04] I should point out that K-R-N-R is deep because it's a very, very, very I should point out that K-R-N-R is deep because letters for this fake radius. It does play Aerosmith music and other stuff. Just Aerosmith outside the Rock and Roller coaster.

[01:35:23] I've never heard anything but the Aerosmith out of that building. All right. For the drink variety, I would like to give Hollywood Lounge a point. When did animals style burgers start? And I would also like to give Hollywood or California Adventure a point

[01:35:42] for the fruit stand being a fruit stand. When did animals style burgers start? Just in retrospect, I'm just thinking of it just being a fruit stand and I really like that aspect of it. The whole on the street fruit stand get fruits, vegetables, the different thing.

[01:35:59] You start to muddy a little bit for me when you start getting frozen margaritas and churros and pretzels and that kind of thing. It takes away from what the intent of the fruit cart is. That's a good point.

[01:36:12] And I'm not just saying it because it's in my favor. At that point, you may as well just sell bubble wands too. Right. 100% I'm with you on that. Unfortunately, that ties the score. Oh no.

[01:36:29] So, and I honestly guys, do not have anything that's going to put any one of these over the top. Both of these are my least favorite places to go for food in both of these parks. I do like some of...

[01:36:47] Both of them sort of have the similar variety, some of the seasonal offerings. You've got frosty treats you can get, you can get liquor, you can get beer, you can get snacks, you can get hot dogs, blah, blah, blah.

[01:37:00] I think the only thing I'm landing on is that there's just simply more variety at Hollywood Studios. Can I offer another variable that might help? Yes. And this is a genuine thing, genuine question because I know that you could go either way on this.

[01:37:16] I know where I would go but I don't know where you would go. Tendency towards less obnoxious descriptions versus tendency towards more whimsical and possibly themed descriptions. Now, descriptions are something that the average consumer is going to even experience. That's irrelevant to this conversation.

[01:37:38] When I'm trying to think about going to a theme park and I've got to go to this land that is themed after a Hollywood and I want to go get some food. In general, all these options are crap with the exceptions that I think I've already acknowledged.

[01:37:54] There's a few elements in seasonal variety. You get some pork belly over here. You can get some unique hot dogs or different things over here, ward weaners. To add some nuance to that in fairness to what these things are,

[01:38:10] I would even say all of them are perfectly good options if you know what you want and you know where to get it. Meaning that like, if I want that weird burrito, then that's available. Yeah, no, that's fair.

[01:38:25] Right, Dan, to that end, that $6 chimichanga over at the chicken shack outside of Incredicoster. There are some really cool things, little nuanced things that you can find here. And I was going to say Hollywood Studios for the variety because of the pizza and hamburgers or whatever.

[01:38:43] But I think where I'm going to land here is I'm not going to these lands for these restaurants. Good point. I'm going to these lands for the rides and as a result, Rock and Roll are coasters in Tower of Terror.

[01:39:00] Now, I see where you're going with those. All the people that want to go see Mickey's Fill Her Magic will have a more variety experience. So great. I'm glad I won this. I'm just going to take my headphones off now and get a glass of water. You should.

[01:39:16] So as a result of the lands there in, I could go more than one way here. So here's what I'm thinking in defense of Hollywood Studios. The entire market in addition to this being part of the theme. And these things.

[01:39:33] Chad, I remember it was so hard to have these arguments some time ago, but I really feel like, I really feel like things are going to be here now. Yeah, you know, I still have to come over and just let him go. Approaches, but.

[01:39:51] I think it's funnier if you keep going here. Okay, that's true. If it's annoying, I'll just turn them off. So there's the theme aspect where it is themed after a large market area. And that is what it purports to be or what it's actually going for.

[01:40:08] Really, when it comes to the variety of food that you're talking about, it's all in the same place. So if you walk up, sure you might get taken in by Anaheim produce immediately, but you can also see clearly.

[01:40:22] You can also clearly see that there are a bunch of other options. There are multiple locations. It is almost a food court. It is almost a food court. And then you've got a large seating area that is covered. It's shady. That is also true. It's nice.

[01:40:39] So it's one really in this case, I would just discard KRNR because it's just a right. It's practically a cart anyway. It just happens to have more games on the website. So what I was going to say, and I think just leaning into Dan's joke,

[01:40:54] what I was going to say is because the quality of restaurants or quality of rides in these lands, I would default to Hollywood Studios because it is, you know, hey, the land's better because of these rides. Right.

[01:41:07] However, one would, and I'm really glad that you're recognizing that the California Adventure version of Philhar Magic, they made so many creative choices. However, I'm also like, I'm going to these lands for these rides. And what am I left with? A crappy pizza place?

[01:41:25] There's also the animation building. You know what I mean? So I don't know. If you're getting pizza at a theme park, you're asking for it. Look at all the other options. I guess. Yeah, that's true. A bit to side that is 100% true. I'm back to Variety.

[01:41:38] I'm back to Variety. Hollywood Studios wins for Variety at the end. You know what? This one could have gone any which way. They're all crap. It's all crap. I don't want to lose you. It's almost, I mean, you're right.

[01:41:58] It's all crap, but it's almost like it's less than the sum of its parts. Yeah. I guess you're right. I don't know. I'm trying to be as objective as possible with something that I just don't like. Because each place individually, except for possibly the weird burrito place,

[01:42:16] but I'm willing to say that they probably occasionally have something good. It's just, you know. But Dan, if Hollywood and Dine is still there? Totally. Totally. It's hands down. And that conversation over. And that comes back to my original premise, which is first of all,

[01:42:34] if Superstar Limo weren't Superstar Limo, it might still be there. And or if Don the Beachcomber realized that people had a tea restaurant made at my time. On Don the Beachcomber, I mean, they opened up Trader Sam's much later and people can't get enough of that place.

[01:42:54] Yeah, that's true. Man, and if something like that, like if there was that or a lamp light or anything. Right. But this is the land equivalent of the other side of the park with the 2001 bathrooms. Like do something.

[01:43:10] You spent a billion dollars renovating this park to something, change the name, do something. But anyway, I digress. The Hollywoodland restaurants and the restaurants are the supreme in the restaurants. It's almost. It's for boating. It's almost like that part of the park when they started building it.

[01:43:40] Someone was just like, what if we make like a Tomorrowland problem but on purpose? Wouldn't that be cool? But you know, it's also just, you know, when we do these shows and we try to find analogs and comparisons,

[01:43:54] I really do think it's interesting that in both cases, both themed after Hollywood, a lot of the same architecture is sort of borrowed on all of the dinings on the left, all the shopping is on the right. And I think that's interesting that they're both that way.

[01:44:09] I think both of these are kind of echoes of Disney's kind of freak out response to Universal Studios opening and then really, really like putting almost no thought into like, okay, Hollywood people like, what do people like about Hollywood? Well, like they like facades.

[01:44:28] They like empty buildings, you know? Yeah, it's a soundstage. I get it. But I guess what I'm wondering on the greater thing is, did DCA just borrow from Sunset Boulevard at Hollywood Studios and like all the restaurants over here, the shops over here,

[01:44:43] or is there like an actual neuroscience reason behind it? You know what I mean? I think it's like reading left to right. You know, you know, maybe it's like you eat and then you eat in the shop perhaps.

[01:45:01] But that would be true everywhere and it's not true everywhere. True. Okay, so that was fun. Good job guys. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you. It was I'll be honest more interested than I thought it would be.

[01:45:16] I like when Jimmy says crazy things like this is going to be a short one. I know. I mean, I started it anyway. Okay, so ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, thank you. That was and the restaurants.

[01:45:30] The final episode, not the final, final episode, but the next episode for the Hollywood Land land argument will be and the shops. Jimmy, can I make a request? And the rest shops and there are a few feel free to cut this out.

[01:45:45] Can I make a request that you add boys and girls to two boys and girls at Enby's? That's non-binary boys and girls and Enby's. Sure, I'm sorry. I said ladies and gentlemen boys and girls. Right. And then part of your notes. Enby's non-binary is what that is.

[01:46:03] Yeah, yeah. Boys and girls. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and Enby's. Yeah, go for it. Enby's. I will trim. You can leave this part in too if you want. I don't care. Yeah, let's leave it in. Yeah. It's good to learn Dan.

[01:46:17] I promise I'm not trying to woke scold you. It's just something that every time you say, I'm like, I should say something. Well, this is back to what we talked about before in the before hours. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and Enby's. Mm-hmm. There you go. Awesome.

[01:46:33] Thank you. We're learning people. We're evolving. It's good. Okay. So thank you for listening. Thank you, Dan and Eric. There are other shows on the network, namely Ears Up that had the script and had the scraping the vault people on. Mm-hmm.

[01:46:50] And we did the Ernest Goes to Splash Mountain. I did think it was interesting that in the description of that show that the scraping the vault people reached out to Ears Up and for the record, I'd like to point out they reached out to us. Anyway.

[01:47:06] And I'm excited to review it. I'll review the show. We have currently 69 reviews. So please do no longer. The floor is closed. No more reviews, please. Sorry. Sorry. Also, Conceers is a wonderful way to help a season professional tell you

[01:47:23] all the places at DCA and Hollywood Studios to avoid eating, namely any Hollywood themed street. Anyway, Conceers 856 hour Ears. I have not gotten a recent new client. So I don't know. I have nobody to promote.

[01:47:42] But there's a lot going on, a lot of new deals, a lot of things happening. I know this is not necessarily a vacation planning season, but this is coming out in July maybe? Yes. Yes.

[01:47:54] I will say though that somebody who knows the patterns of at least one coast and I'm just not trying to be a corporate chill here now is probably a very good time to start making plans. Halloween season is very, very busy, especially at Disneyland.

[01:48:12] I don't know about Disney World. Basically Halloween through Christmas is the new summer. And a lot of people aren't recognizing that. Summer it's kind of dead. Kind of. I know it's counter-intuitive. Yeah. But starting as soon as they open up for Halloween stuff,

[01:48:32] it gets very busy or as busy as it gets until basically, you know, the day after Christmas ish. So if you are thinking of putting together a vacation anytime within that time period, it stands to reason that if you were to start planning now,

[01:48:51] you would probably get better availability of things, better prices, more likely to get a holiday. Better prices, more likely to get park reservations and more like if you're dining reservations and all that stuff.

[01:49:07] So as somebody who knows that we can go ahead and just call it a dance across the tip, if you were inclined to plan a vacation for that time period, knowing what I know now is absolutely a good time to do that. Thank you.

[01:49:25] And a couple of things I'd like to point out. Is it about there, Ghost? Right now is the... Right now is Concierge Christmas in July. So there are promotional things. If you do book in July, just book, mind you. You're eligible for some prizes.

[01:49:39] Also, when you do book to Dan's point, if you do it now, you're thinking about the fall. Now's a good time. There are all kinds of weird specials and things. If you book a package with Concierge or really with anyone, but if you book with Concierge,

[01:49:54] you only need to pay $200 to secure your package and you don't need to pay another dime until 30 days before your trip. So it's relatively low risk. It was fun for me. Sorry, I'm gonna get started now. You know, you heard about the new lightning lane thing.

[01:50:10] Genie Plus is going away at Disney World. All the Concierges are well-versed in all of this. So it does get complicated. I have a friend who just got back from Disney World and his cousin is a Disney vacation planner. Traditional Disney vacation planner.

[01:50:26] And what that means for 99% of the companies out there that are certified Disney vacation planners is that they book your trip. And this is true for almost... Probably, I don't know for a fact, but outside of Concierge, everyone just books your trip. This guy was so frustrated.

[01:50:46] And first of all, I found out he was Disney World. I was like, that can't be true. I sent him a text. It can't be true because I did not book this for you. So you can't actually be there. And he and his wife came back

[01:50:57] and just lamented the fact that it's like, hey, we had early entry. It started at 8.30 in the morning. So we got to the parking lot at 8.30. And by the time we got into the park, it was like we had lost a whole hour. Because nobody... They said,

[01:51:12] I wish we had somebody to tell us what to do. And like, tell us if it opens at 8.30, you need to be in through the security, through the turnstiles well before 8.30. And just things like that. They were even staying on property.

[01:51:26] They just nobody was there to tell them that sort of thing. And that's what Concierge does. You don't pay anything else, but you have a better, ultimately a better experience because somebody is going to give you those little nuance warnings. Word of the day, nuance.

[01:51:39] Hey, you want to hear of the craziest deal that's going on right now with Disney Travel? Yes, sir. It is absolutely bonkers. So if you have, right now, enough time off saved up where you can take two weeks off and you have a valid passport

[01:52:00] and you have a few grand lion around. The National Geographic Tour. So basically this is... Disney has Adventures by Disney and they have the National Geographic Tours. They're very similar, very high touch experiences. You've got very small groups of people on these tours.

[01:52:18] National Geographic tends to focus more on cultural heritage sites and architecture. And if you're in, you know, Africa, they'll be a lot more about conservation and animals and that sort of thing. Morocco. Nine days in Morocco, they have deals for trips this year,

[01:52:38] meaning sign up for August, September, October. Trips that are about $2,000 a person. For nine days, that's most meals taken care of. I thought that was just for vacation planners. That's for anybody? That's for anybody. That's not even listed on the deals page on our travel agent site.

[01:53:00] That's just on the National Geographic site. They're really... I mean, if you look out for 2025 trips for the same tour, they're $8,000 to $10,000 a person. Yeah, that's crazy. Insane. They're definitely low on attendance and they're just filling spots. But if you have the ability to get to Morocco,

[01:53:21] look it up. There's a whole bunch of tours. I think there are probably like 8 to 10 complete tours available at this point heading into October. It's crazy. So we have Dan's Frosted Tips and Eric because it's Morocco and it's hot. These are Eric's Steamed Buns. Zip those buns up.

[01:53:45] There they go. Good job. All right, everybody. Well, thank you for listening. Congratulations to Hollywood Studios for being the best, worst counter-service restaurants in the theme parks. Until next time, thank you Dan and Eric. Until next time, be good to each other and Court is adjourned.