Limit to Taking Food & Drink into Parks?

[Amos1784]

I would highly suggest at most just one bottle of water or as least as possible. As mentioned earlier you can get cold, with ice, fresh waters by just walking up to the ordering bay of any quick service with no line. These not only are cold, but the water out of the fountains for you to fill yourself to me tastes absolutely awful at the parks. Some are definitely better than others and if you are used to Florida water might not be as bad to you but I find it almost undrinkable.

 

[jloucks]

This will sound harsh.

Maybe it's time to block all outside food and drink. Again.

I like this, but for even more harsh reasons. (anything to thin the crowds)

 

[LAKid53]

I've seen guests wheeling around a small rolling cooler and/or carrying one of those reuable grocery bags full of snack foods.

In front of me in the bag check line at AK yesterday was a women who had both a large purse and tote bag that the security guy pulled out 2 take home boxes with food in them, a big bag of chips, bags of other snack food and several bottles of water. He gave her a very strange look.

The only beverage you can't bring into the parks is alcohol.

 

[LAKid53]

I would highly suggest at most just one bottle of water or as least as possible. As mentioned earlier you can get cold, with ice, fresh waters by just walking up to the ordering bay of any quick service with no line. These not only are cold, but the water out of the fountains for you to fill yourself to me tastes absolutely awful at the parks. Some are definitely better than others and if you are used to Florida water might not be as bad to you but I find it almost undrinkable.

As someone who lives in Florida, what comes out of Disney taps isn't "Florida" water. It's Disney treated water. I have a Brita filter water bottle that I can refill with the funky Disney water and the filter takes that taste out.

 

[Nj4mwc]

You're going to get looks. Busting out a loaf of bread and a pound of deli ham in the middle of Epcot is extremely tacky, like a grown man wearing basketball shorts to a nice dinner. I would recommend skipping the TS dinners and doing CS for both lunch and dinner. It's one thing to bring granola bars and bottled water, it's another thing to bring sandwich ingredients and assemble entire meals for a family of 8.

I think wearing anything less than a three piece suit with perfectly shined shoes and a bowler hat that you tip and great all women with while at Disney is extremely tacky.

 

[Hockey89]

I think wearing anything less than a three piece suit with perfectly shined shoes and a bowler hat that you tip and great all women with while at Disney is extremely tacky.

We barely can get guys to not wear wife beaters to Signature restaurants

 

[CaptainAmerica]

We barely can get guys to not wear wife beaters to Sign restaurants

My favorite classy WDW guest was a woman who wore a t-shirt that simply said "MILF" on the front in huge purple glittery letters. This was at the Hoop Dee Doo Revue, and she actually got called on stage to participate in a sketch. When the cast members realized what her shirt said, they hastily stuffed her into a prop dress or robe of some kind to cover up.

 

[Hockey89]

My favorite classy WDW guest was a woman who wore a t-shirt that simply said "MILF" on the front in huge purple glittery letters. This was at the Hoop Dee Doo Revue, and she actually got called on stage to participate in a sketch. When the cast members realized what her shirt said, they hastily stuffed her into a prop dress or robe of some kind to cover up.

Let me guess, she was not a milf either lol... You truly get a slice of all humanity at Disney...

 

[Legendary]

You're going to get looks. Busting out a loaf of bread and a pound of deli ham in the middle of Epcot is extremely tacky, like a grown man wearing basketball shorts to a nice dinner. I would recommend skipping the TS dinners and doing CS for both lunch and dinner. It's one thing to bring granola bars and bottled water, it's another thing to bring sandwich ingredients and assemble entire meals for a family of 8.

Why is that tacky? Just because it’s not for you that doesn’t mean that you get to judge anyone else. Your enjoy your hockey puck of a burger and let someone else enjoy whatever they want even if they packed it.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Why is that tacky? Just because it’s not for you that doesn’t mean that you get to judge anyone else.

Of course I get to judge everyone else. Every person has every right to judge everyone else in the privacy of their own minds. And I'll continue to judge people who set up a Subway sandwich shop on a bench in Adventureland just like I'll continue to judge adults who wear sweatpants in public, parents who put children on leashes, and anyone who's ever used the word "woke" unironically.

But go ahead, #EatFresh

Your enjoy your hockey puck of a burger and let someone else enjoy whatever they want even if they packed it.

I spend (very roughly) two weeks at Walt Disney World a year, I eat every meal on property, and I have a burger maybe once per trip. I'd wager people who want a burger but can't find one greatly outnumber people trying to avoid burgers at WDW.

 

[nickys]

My favorite classy WDW guest was a woman who wore a t-shirt that simply said "MILF" on the front in huge purple glittery letters. This was at the Hoop Dee Doo Revue, and she actually got called on stage to participate in a sketch. When the cast members realized what her shirt said, they hastily stuffed her into a prop dress or robe of some kind to cover up.

To be fair, I thought everyone who gets invited up gets some kind of costume.

But !

 

[Fankle]

Gosh, I certainly didn't envisage this being quite such a controversial subject.....

You're going to get looks. Busting out a loaf of bread and a pound of deli ham in the middle of Epcot is extremely tacky, like a grown man wearing basketball shorts to a nice dinner. I would recommend skipping the TS dinners and doing CS for both lunch and dinner. It's one thing to bring granola bars and bottled water, it's another thing to bring sandwich ingredients and assemble entire meals for a family of 8.

He's right. People lack class and it affects others around them trying to enjoy the environment. There's a line, and people abuse it because social norms and behavioral standards have decayed.

Oh my! I wasn't planning on rolling out the picnic blanket in front of the castle, but along with the wicker picnic hamper, the champagne flutes, fine china, scones and cucumber sandwiches, we could turn it into quite an event. (Kidding!). It just shows how everyone views things quite differently. (I can't imagine telling my mother I planned to eat fast food and fizzy drinks for a fortnight. Now that would be frowned upon.)

OP.. you do you.. make sandwiches if you want, or just carry a few drinks in and small snacks, there are plenty of quiet places throughout the parks to enjoy your time(thinking the side alley on Main Street, the patio behind flame tree in AK, the seating behind fairfax fare in the studios, and plenty of spots around the park in Epcot) so you don't get people who tell you that it is equal to wearing basketball shorts to a steakhouse..

Thank you! I just need to work out how to keep it simple so we don't weigh ourselves down and take for ever getting through security. Could be we just make do with trail bars to keep us going.

I would highly suggest at most just one bottle of water or as least as possible. As mentioned earlier you can get cold, with ice, fresh waters by just walking up to the ordering bay of any quick service with no line. These not only are cold, but the water out of the fountains for you to fill yourself to me tastes absolutely awful at the parks. Some are definitely better than others and if you are used to Florida water might not be as bad to you but I find it almost undrinkable.

Yes - that's the way I'm headed. Everyone carries one bottle of water each. We'll just put up with refilling with the park water after that.

I've seen guests wheeling around a small rolling cooler and/or carrying one of those reuable grocery bags full of snack foods.

In front of me in the bag check line at AK yesterday was a women who had both a large purse and tote bag that the security guy pulled out 2 take home boxes with food in them, a big bag of chips, bags of other snack food and several bottles of water. He gave her a very strange look.

This is something I'm conscious of. I don't want to take ages getting through security, nor do I want to hold everyone behind me up with my over-packing. Snacks/water is only one part of this though, but we ALWAYS use everything else.

I think wearing anything less than a three piece suit with perfectly shined shoes and a bowler hat that you tip and great all women with while at Disney is extremely tacky.

I quite agree! I have my frock, hat and gloves picked out and we practice our curtsies for 30 minutes daily (after walking up and down the grand staircase balancing several books on our heads).

 

[jloucks]

Why is that tacky? Just because it’s not for you that doesn’t mean that you get to judge anyone else. Your enjoy your hockey puck of a burger and let someone else enjoy whatever they want even if they packed it.

Whatever they want, so long as they packed it? Almost sounds like a challenge. I think I will bring some fresh caught fish, gut them, filet them, spark up my solar grill, and have a cookout. Oooh! and bring a nice durian fruit for desert.

 

[Fankle]

Can I join you? Sounds like a good Italian family day out. (I’ll bring the homemade arancini & gelato, and produce packets of sausages and fillet steak from my handbag like my Nonna used to......

 

[Legendary]

I guess if you leave it out in the hot Florida sun it will cook itself. Yum