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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Gabe1 said:
I have a little fabric string backpack that has a side waterbottle net holder. I'll carry that if I take an umbrella or poncho and throw my writlet in it. Otherwise it is my wallet or tiny crossbody purse. I never forgot 8 years of either a backpack or diaper bag into the parks. Freedom. The first year I was free of a bag everyone had their own fannie pack before they became socially unacceptable. Everyone carried their own stuff except passes. Those I held onto.
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We never had to carry a diaper bag (and, I don't think we brought in, or rented, a stroller on that first trip, either) 'cause our youngest was 6 when we first went as a family.
DWifey and I had f a n n y packs and we took in (and still do) a small backpack.
Now, nobody takes hardly anything on their person. I put everything I need in my cargo shorts, using ziplock bags for certain items. Everything else goes in the backpack that mostly I, DS, and SIL have carried the last coupla' trips. And, like you, I have always been the one to carry all the Park Passes, FastPasses (we haven't been since June of '13 when they were still paper), etc., in my wallet. :)
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Goofyernmost said:
When I was a kid the catholic churches never had that happening. That is something we saw Episcopalians do and the wine drinkers in the crowd thought that was a cool idea. After all the alcohol in the Wine would kill the germs, right? Once they did adopt that procedure it was always at your choice though, it wasn't a requirement.
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Yep, I'm Catholic and since the wine was introduced it has always been optional. I have always opted for the wine. I'm pretty far from being a germophobe, and am rarely sick.
I once read an article, not all that long ago, that said it wasn't any riskier than standing in line at the movie theater.
It had never been a concern of mine, but, somebody brought it up, so I researched it a bit.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Gabe1 said:
Wine was never an option when I was a kid either. The priest and sometimes his servers drank the wine. I remember being curious as to why? Even then I didn't want to and wasn't a fan of that host being put in my mouth either.
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But, when it was bein' served back then, it only came from the servers fingers to your mouth. Now, it goes from their fingers to your hand to then be picked up by your other hands fingers and then put into your mouth. :D ;)
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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Gabe1 said:
I really like the Blvd there. I like they have indoor and outdoor and everyone can pick which hut they want to eat from. A much better offering than Disney Studio's Sunset Blvd. I hate eating fast food at the Studios. Normally go into the bakery and get a sandwich or leave the park.

Still one of my more favorite and tasty QS foods is from Min & Bill's Dock, the Smoked Sausage on a Pretzel Roll is pretty yummy. If there was ample seating I'd do that more often. One of my biggest beefs with the Studio's. When it is hot out I really like to eat indoors in A/C and away from the birds begging. I am sad they didn't add an indoor option for Flame at AK too. Love their food.
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which is interesting. I dont know if the quick food was good for you at Universal.
For me it was below average.
Disney food tastes better.. for example.. the hotdogs.. Uni's hotdogs were AWFUL except the hotdog specialty store at city Walk.

And I agree with you, the studios lack AC on their fastfood offers.
Uni has variety in that aspect.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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Gabe1 said:
One dude got angry at the last major snowfall with all the people who did not shovel in front of the businesses and high rise condo's and turned to ice. Over days he drove home the point, carving out ice blocks and hauling them to the center median and made an igloo. I'm am surprised the police let him and public works let it stand there for days. Will be interesting with all the bad PR if they will shovel now.
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*lol*
Guess he had to freeze his anger ;)
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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ajrwdwgirl said:
We did the Brown Derby lounge in November and that was some really good food for the Studios. The sliders were fantastic and we should have gotten our own and not shared them. We also got the charcuterie too. Sorry the pictures are a little dark.
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but that doesnt count as fast food. If I remember.. the derby is the most expensive of the studios by a long shot.
 
brb1006

brb1006

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Am I the only person who finds it odd to see Thumper and Miss Bunny meeting I with eacother at AK? While Miss Bunny hasn't been at AK in years. I remember finding it weird since Thumper meet Miss Bunny as an adult in the film but is appears took be still young at the parks. Guess Thumper must have fell into the Fountain of Youth after not lessoning to his mother. Also I can't tell if Miss Bunny is the same female bunny Thumper meet or is one of his sisters. Please tell me I'm not the only person who confuses this bunny with Thumper's sisters.... or maybe I'm over thinking right now.

 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Gabe1 said:
Our Catholic parishes never used the thimble glass, wish they had. We are all supposed to sip out of the same challis. Then they wipe it with the same hankie. Ewe :eek: None of us here ever took part in the wine. I was happy when they stopped putting the host in my mouth and actually not so thrilled I'm putting something in my mouth that others have been touching.

Yep me the germaphobe :depressed:
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Ah...ours was more formal. We had to go to the alter with a group of like 8 people, bow and kneel on the little beam and place our hands over the rail in a cup position, keeping head bowed. Then the pastor or one of the alter men would place a host in your hands while the pastor recited the words of intsitution. Then when everyone had had their host, they would bring along a tray of the little thimble glasses and you took one and drank and put it in one of the little holes in back of the railing to be collected after the service. Then everyone got up together, bowed, and returned to their seats as the next group took position. I never liked the idea of the communal cup either...not sanitary. But I saw churches that just took a loaf of bread and a church member held it and people came by and tore off a small chunk, dipped it in the chalice of wine, and ate it..that way no one has handled your bread and you don't have to drink from the same cup.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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donaldtoo said:
Hahaaa...!
Yep, same when I was a kiddo. Your "options" we're what was on the table. ;)
I was never a picky eater, I scarfed pretty much everything mom ever put on the table.
The only one of us 4 sibs that I can remember bein' picky was my middle brother.
Ralphie's little brother from A Christmas Story kinda' reminds me of him. :)
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I was a picky eater in the sense that I didn't like a lot of sauces or spices....I just wanted things plain. But my mom could put just about any vegetable in front of me and I loved it...the exceptions were peppers and zucchini. Meat was the same...no liver, but she didn't like liver either, so she didn't make it often. But chicken, pork, beef...I'd eat any of it, except game meat. And I loved baked or mashed potatoes either one. And I loved most warm casseroles, too...like spaghetti, lasagna, rice dishes, etc I just didn't like ketchup, mustard, butter (unless it was melted), cheese sauce, mayo...but how hard is it to serve broccoli without the cheese sauce? Or a sandwich with JUST the peanut butter instead of a layer of butter first? It's LESS effort to leave it plain, but my mom would get so frustrated with me for being so "picky". I think the main thing is that it's so inconvenient when going to restaurants because they always slather burgers with condiments and half the time, even when we ordered a "plain" burger, they'd forget and my mom didn't want to go back and tell them they'd mess it up, nor did she want to wait long enough for them to make a new one and for me to eat it, so instead of getting mad at THEM for making a mistake, she got mad at ME for not liking the stuff.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Goofyernmost said:
My grandson is like that. He's 14 now and I don't remember seeing him eat anything other then chicken fingers and french fries. If you offer him something new the routine will be the same every time. He will hold it up to his nose and sniff it, then make a face and say "I don't like that". I've never seen him eat a vegetable other then corn, anything green is the same as radioactive. He wants to play football but is as skinny as a line. I keep telling him he needs certain foods if he wants to bulk up. Right now any player on the other teams could break him in half on a whim.

Part of it comes from his father. The man eats nothing but meat and potatoes. No veggie's, no eggs or anything that he is aware is even remotely related to eggs (well except chicken), no fish at all. He refuses to try anything new because he already knows he won't like it. Like father, like son. Oh, yea... the both eat spaghetti with meat sauce (hamburg) but won't touch meat balls. Why? I don't have a clue. I guess I've got problems of my own and really don't care, but, it seems like such a tunneled life.
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Oh DS won't even try chicken fingers. They must be chicken nuggets or he won't eat them. He won't eat chicken strips, or chicken wings, or anything of the sort. I tried to make my own chicken nuggets by cutting up chicken and breading the pieces with cornflakes, but he wouldn't eat them. He's WAY pickier than I ever was, but I don't force him, because my mom forced me to eat things I hated and to this day, food is a real source of anxiety for me because of it. I wasn't given the option of not eating it....it wasn't "eat what we're eating or eat nothing." It was "You WILL eat ALL of this that I give you, and you WILL clean your plate or you won't leave the dinner table." I give my son the option to just not eat. This is what we have, and you don't have to eat, but you aren't getting something different.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Gabe1 said:
My DD was always a healthy eater and ate most things minus fish. Loved pasta, still does. DS OMG a clone of your DS. He lived on Chicken Strips (oh how I miss those). He also had a texture thing and a messy thing, he didn't like to touch things that got his hands or face messy. There is hope. He is now a very adventuresome young man and tries more things than I do and I'm pretty open to trying even if I have to spat it out. lol One of things he will not eat is mashed potatoes. It is a texture thing with him.
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When DS was a year old, his favorite thing was fried potatoes. We used to eat at the coffee table because we only had one high chair, and both of them hated high chairs anyway. So we used the coffee table as it was low enough that they could reach. Whenever we had fried potatoes, DS would eat all of his first, then edge his way around the table, take a handful of potatoes off our plates, edge back to his place and put them on his plate...then they were HIS and he would eat them. He had the most ornery grin when he took your potatoes, you couldn't help but laugh. But he'd eat a whole pan of them if you let him. Now he won't touch any kind of potato but french fries. I miss the days when he loved tacos, spaghetti, alfredo, potatoes, etc.
 

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